I missed the part about only searching MFT area! My bad

"...how you image the sectors connected to those files and folders can have a huge impact on the stability of the drive...determine all the sectors connected to the target files and start imaging the drive from beginning to end..." The thread mentioned MFT HDD thrashing, won't there be som...

Please tell us that she is going to begin and maintain, going forward, from now on, a routine of making backups onto external media.

Seagate 2TB FireCuda SATA 6 GB/S 2.5" HDD -- copy'd and paste from a business retail computer web site. Anyone here in see any failure pattern with this model? I have two, one in each Acer Aspire laptop. HardDisk Sentinel reported some re-allocated sectors. Earlier, I posted the above question ...

Would a Hybrid SSD/HDD question go here? Or, in another forum? To be fair, the SSD portion is much smaller than the HDD portion, there is a general, conventional, hard-drive forum?

Folks, I'd like to learn a little more to appreciate what you all do! In layperson terms, how do heads get re-aligned?

Do you want me to link this to college cafe's computer forum? Is the info still applicable to present raid setups?

CNW "building over 1000 files..." Data recovery software often finds oldest, older, old, past, present, versions of exe, zip, doc, xls, and so many other files; example: if you edited a set of files each several times, most if not all older and present files will be listed, sometimes in or...

If Andy sticks to exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, etc., concerning data recovery -- Post 1 is a fair start. As long as questionable software is not brought up -- I'm in, otherwise, delete away

Jared, out of curiosity I visited that DVR recovery website, couldn't a hint of how much - what did they quote you when you sent a test quote request?