![]() ![]() You really don’t need to be a geek to use the Assistant Each screenĬlearly explains what’s going on and then prompts the user to make aĭecision. With nothing to lose andĮverything to gain, I figured I’d give it a shot.īy default, Data Rescue II starts in Assistant mode. But before I got started, a review copy ofĭata Rescue II showed up in my mailbox. That was only a symptom of a bigger problem) and if it still didn’t Reformatting the hard drive (it had bad sectors, but I was guessing With nothing left to try, it was time to give up. With a lot of reorganizing to do, and there was no telling what files I Which, by their names, I thought might be important. When I ran DiskWarrior a second time, it found lots ofįiles but no hierarchy at all. Wouldn’t boot, and in FireWire Target Disk Mode the drive was Success! But when I restarted, the computer Piles of errors, but after four hours or so it reported success ![]() The next day, I ran DiskWarrior 3 on the computer it found piles and Not only was my drive inīad shape, but it was also getting worse as I continued to use it. Increasingly longer to rescue increasingly smaller amounts ofĭata. That worked fine at first, but it started to take Started copying files, in order of importance, onto my old Wall Street Now (or maybe yesterday) would be a good time to back up my drive. Something was wrong, and as an IT professional it dawned on me that Started up again, it took a good ten or fifteen minutes to boot. Had to hold down the power button to force a shutdown. I was using my PowerBook normally when everything froze. If they write to your damaged drive), or your hard drive might be hosedĮven beyond DR II’s recovery capabilities. Might work fine for your situation (though running them might be risky, But that does mean that my experience with the program is To be honest, I’m glad I only had one bad hard drive to test Data One day it happened: I needed Data Rescue II. Somehow I just never got around to backing up my data. Nightly, backing up a dozen or so computers’ worth of critical,Ĭonfidential data onto encrypted VXA-2 tapes, which are cycled through It’s simple and inexpensive insurance against hugeĪt least, that’s what I tell people. YouĬan burn 700 MB of your most important files to a CD for less thanĪ buck, or use your choice of programs to periodically andĪutomatically back up your data to other hard drives, removable drives, Understand why there would be a need for a data-recovery program. With a number of backup solutions readily available, it’s hard to Trial: Feature-limited (can only recover one file, <500K) Booting from the CD requires a PowerPC-based Mac. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2, an undamaged “working” drive (in addition to the one you’re trying to recover files from). Price: $99 (Personal, “only drives that you personally own”) $249 (IT, “any drives at one location”) ![]()
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