[RESOLVED] data recovery software

[cabal]

I got a customer who killed his operating system, now WINME won't boot and booting from a floppy it says there is no valid fat on the drive.I ran fdisk and it finds the drive and volume, but if I try to access the drive it says invalid drive specification c.I need to know if this is recoverable( of course customer has not backed up anything ). I downloaded the free personal edition of Ontrack's Easyrecovery software, and it looks like it found the files but I never used anything like this before, and I want an opinion before I spend $180 for their software.

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[jimmm33]

Check this software out. I have used it and it works great.

http://www.dtidata.com/products_ff_recovery.asp

[GHSTECH]

My vote is for Ontrack's Easyrecovery it has helped me to recover files several times from drives that fdisk couldn't even see correctly. It does take a long time so reserve about 12-24 hours if you have a few gigs to recover.

[ad3p4]

Ditto for OnTrack's tools.

Could not live without them now.

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"Expect the unexpected"

[pk_GPC]

I'm in full agreement. I found Ontracks Easyrecovery abount a month ago. Outstanding piece of software that I couldn't live without now.

[pyjo]

agree....
but with a little twist
my recovered files seems to be unusable
and PQ L&F didn't detect all the files from
a mistakenly formatted drive..

BTW the case above seems to arise from a boot sector virus infection
my humble solution...
first go to dos and type fdisk/mbr (it will recover the undetected partition)
and using (i recommend f-prot) antivirus scan the drive and voila...
there sits again all the files ....