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Flac Files. Corrupt Drive.

My external drive is corrupt and has a vast amount of flac and shn files on it.  I have data rescue II but i do not believe it recovers these types of files. Could someone help me out to recover these files.

Thank you
Mike

Flac Files. Corrupt Drive.

Reply #1 –
Quote from: Mike Raz on
My external drive is corrupt and has a vast amount of flac and shn files on it.  I have data rescue II but i do not believe it recovers these types of files. Could someone help me out to recover these files.

Thank you
Mike


I had an internal drive fail last year and used GetDataBack for NTFS. It didn't recover _all_ the files but very close to it. The files that died were all small - 50 to 100 Kbyte. The larger files were almost completely recovered. It was slow - 6 hours to scan 300 gigs and another 6 hours to copy but all the .wav and .jpg pictures of the kids were recovered. GetDataBack completely recovered the directory structures and many different kinds of files. As far as the computer is concerned, a file is a file - a series of bytes. How they are interpreted is up to the software. There is also a version for FAT 32. Highly recommended at $80.

G²

Flac Files. Corrupt Drive.

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Quote from: Glenn Gundlach on
Quote from: Mike Raz on

My external drive is corrupt and has a vast amount of flac and shn files on it.  I have data rescue II but i do not believe it recovers these types of files. Could someone help me out to recover these files.

Thank you
Mike


I had an internal drive fail last year and used GetDataBack for NTFS. It didn't recover _all_ the files but very close to it. The files that died were all small - 50 to 100 Kbyte. The larger files were almost completely recovered. It was slow - 6 hours to scan 300 gigs and another 6 hours to copy but all the .wav and .jpg pictures of the kids were recovered. GetDataBack completely recovered the directory structures and many different kinds of files. As far as the computer is concerned, a file is a file - a series of bytes. How they are interpreted is up to the software. There is also a version for FAT 32. Highly recommended at $80.

G²


it is working. just taking very long.

Flac Files. Corrupt Drive.

Reply #3 –
Also I'd recommend trying R-Undelete/R-Studio and something I think is called Active Undelete. I have experienced very different results using different software. It usually depends on the type of failure I guess.
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P

Flac Files. Corrupt Drive.

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Also I'd recommend trying R-Undelete/R-Studio and something I think is called Active Undelete. I have experienced very different results using different software. It usually depends on the type of failure I guess.


thanks for the suggestion but I got everything back with getdataback.

Flac Files. Corrupt Drive.

Reply #5 –
Glad you found a solution.  For those in a similar situation, I've had good luck with Active File Recovery.