I hope this is an alright spot to post my question I've been visiting a few websites & reviewing the data recovery software they offer. I've checked out ZAR, WhiteCanyon, Magic Jelly Bean & MediaRecover so far. Unfortunately, I've gotten myself into a situation where my HD is damaged & I'm not sure if recovery of my valuables is possible. This is a very imperative recovery, so please, help me out. Thanks. Sam.

ZAR is an excellent data recovery program. When you say "I've checked out", do you mean that you actually ran ZAR and it couldn't recover any data?

did you review the link to your left called data recovery? Its above the about and below message find. You should download and run the hard drive manufacturers diagnotics to determine if you have a physical failure.

Yea, what is wrong with the drive?

I've used Easy Recovery Professional Edition and PC Inspector File Recovery, both free, on HDD's that were not accessible through Windows. Both times I had good success. Even though both will recover deleted data i suggest that you do nothing to the affected HDD until you have tried data recovery. If the data is really important (irreplaceable) then you may want to consider a professional data recovery service. Many have flat fees, like $300.00 regardless. Software gives me a headache.

I have used the runtime program offered at this site and it worked very well on a crapped out harddrive. Zar is a much better data recovery program. You do realize that you cannot use the recovery program from the same drive. The bad drive needs to be removed and slaved to another drive. and you need an additional partitionor drive equal to or bigger than the drive you are trying to recover data from. It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats on the belief of personal change--- yet they remain disadvantaged.