So one of my four external hard drives that I brought with me decided to take a crap on me and get corrupted. I have no idea how it happened but it happened. The drive happened to be a refurbished Maxtor that was sent to me as a replacement for another Maxtor that happened to be DOA. So I think that my respect for Maxtor has now been corrupted.
Now, at first I was scared that I had just lost 200 GB of data and I was ready to take a loss. However, I started to look online for a way to recover my data. I have always heard stories online of people being able to recover their data, but I was always skeptical.
So I started to do some research and came across a program called “File Scavenger 3″ that had great reviews on their website. But being the person I am I did not trust reviews that are written on the site that is selling the product. Who knows if the reviews are real or not? So I found independent reviews on CNet.com and other websites that talked it up just as much. I decided that I would download their trial program and it proved to be a good move. The trial program was able to find ALL of the files that were on my hard drive and also found remnants of ALL files that had ever been on there. I couldn’t have been happier. I immediately paid the $45 to buy a license for the product and just got done recovering the entire hard drive to another back-up hard drive I have with me. I then formatted the corrupted drive and it is now in working order again.
So basically, if you ever have any lost data on a hard drive that you just cannot go without then look into buying “File Scavenger 3″, it saved me 200 GB of data.