best software to recover FAT32 Partitions and files

[BigHead50]

hello betaONE

what is the best software to recover FAT32 files and partitions

windows XP, non bootable drive,I have another drive installed to back up to

I have a failing HD (IBM) , it wont boot, and windows from a live cd can see the partions but no info, and everyting is unknown....

Thanks for any help...

[User Needs]

EasyRecovery Professional would work. But it's $1400.00
But I've been able to ghost a drive I couldn't access and get all the data off the image.
And I've had this work and others have tried and didn't get it to work.
But it's worth a try!

[BigHead50]

hello user needs


Thanks for replying...

I have Ghost 9, and I can not see any files with it...

I cant afford easyrecovery, I used something a couple of years ago, on a

floppy disk, that would read almost anything, maybe rstudio or something...

I just cant remember, and cant seem to find my disks..

Getting old sucks

I may try Acronis true image, been wanting to get that anyway....

its affordable

Thanks again for the ideas...

[moen]

Use Ghost 2003 or 8.2. You should be able to ghost it in dos.

[wase4711]

acronis true image is my software of choice for the last year or so..

[rikytik]

Aconis is "IT". The best. But, you know, I had a major disc crash a few months ago and it wasn't my c:\ drive which I b/u with Acronis. It was my main data storage drive which I hadn't backed up in eons. I found a wonderful recovery software called DIY Data Recovery. THere was a free DOS version on Hiren's. I bought it and wow, that sucker recovered nearly everything on my data drive. Nothing else I tried would work, and I've got really a lot of recovery utilities.