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<blockquote data-quote="Ploni" data-source="post: 1295261" data-attributes="member: 135108"><p>Hi! </p><p></p><p>I recently had a small child destroy a 700GB Western Digital external hard drive. I've used an old version of Data Rescue which after 2 days recovered some files (about 1/3rd) but many were without names (numbers instead of their names) and in no order. (foreign movies without their subtitles file and much more of a mess that would take me a year of organization just to fix those few files). I tried burning an image of the broken hard drive with dd_rescue using the terminal, after 2 days it turned out that the disk image wont open :-(</p><p></p><p>I have tried to order the insanely expensive Boomerang Data Recovery but they rejected my US credit card with my foreign IP address even though my bank approved it. I ran their demo and after 2 days it showed up as if it was going to recover all my files with their correct file names and in their correct folders but since I couldn't buy the $200 serial number from them I have no idea if it is really something that would work anyway. $200 is about 700 of my local currency anyway so it is VERY expensive for me and I really only wanted to try it as a last resort.</p><p></p><p>Does anyone have any other suggestions about what I can do to try to read the hard drive? I plugged it into a PC laptop and it read the hard drive momentarily before it decided it didn't know how to open the disk and acted the same as my Mac. </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Please help! I am desperate!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ploni, post: 1295261, member: 135108"] Hi! I recently had a small child destroy a 700GB Western Digital external hard drive. I've used an old version of Data Rescue which after 2 days recovered some files (about 1/3rd) but many were without names (numbers instead of their names) and in no order. (foreign movies without their subtitles file and much more of a mess that would take me a year of organization just to fix those few files). I tried burning an image of the broken hard drive with dd_rescue using the terminal, after 2 days it turned out that the disk image wont open :-( I have tried to order the insanely expensive Boomerang Data Recovery but they rejected my US credit card with my foreign IP address even though my bank approved it. I ran their demo and after 2 days it showed up as if it was going to recover all my files with their correct file names and in their correct folders but since I couldn't buy the $200 serial number from them I have no idea if it is really something that would work anyway. $200 is about 700 of my local currency anyway so it is VERY expensive for me and I really only wanted to try it as a last resort. Does anyone have any other suggestions about what I can do to try to read the hard drive? I plugged it into a PC laptop and it read the hard drive momentarily before it decided it didn't know how to open the disk and acted the same as my Mac. Please help! I am desperate! [/QUOTE]
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