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Read that data even though your disk is "dead." Again freeware is of high quality. Commercial stuff may be a little more polished but won't work much better. It may be difficult to choose the best choice below because there are so many.
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http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/scrounge/ - Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition.
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http://www.diskinternals.com/products/ntfs-reader/ - DiskInternals NTFS Reader is a freeware tool that provides a read access to NTFS disks from Windows 95, 98 and Me.
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http://www.ekremdeniz.com/pub/tdisk.zip - - "Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end."
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http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ - This easy-to-use tool runs under Windows and allows you to browse Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems and extract files from there.
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http://www.vcsoftwares.com/cc.html - Copy Cat 2.0 actually skip the bytes which are not readable from file and copy all other bytes therefore it extracts max data which is normally not done by windows copy operation.
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http://www.deaddiskdoctor.com/ - Dead Disk Doctor - allows copying files from scratched or damaged CD, DVD disks, unreadable Floppy and Hard Drives or other media.
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http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/irecover.htm - "iRecover is a Windows based, read-only data recovery utility. iRecover offers FAT, FAT32 and NTFS file system support, and supports all current Microsoft Windows versions (including 2000 and XP, server and workstation). iRecover allows you to recover data from deleted, corrupt, reformatted and intact (for recovering deleted files) volumes by copying this data to any destination Windows assigns a drive letter such as additional hard disks, partitions, ZIP disks and mapped network shares." Demo allows recovery of a directory, otherwise, not free.
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http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - "The goals of the Linux-NTFS project are to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux kernel driver, and by a user space filesystem (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities (ntfsprogs) and a developer's library (libntfs) for other GPLed programs. We have achieved already a lot, with high quality results."
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http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm - "NTFS Reader DOS Boot Disk provides read access to NTFS drives from the MS DOS environment. It supports long filenames as well as compressed and fragmented files. NTFS Reader for DOS allows you to preview the files on NTFS and copy them from NTFS to FAT volumes or network drives. In order to use the software you need to copy the readntfs.exe file to a bootable floppy disk and boot from it. NTFS Reader for DOS is a FREEWARE"
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http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ - "Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!
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http://www.simtel.net/product.php%5Burl_fb_product_page%5D44201 - "Data Recovery Software: Reads BAD disks"
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http://www.roadkil.net/Sectedit.html - "Allows displaying, editing, printing and searching of disks by individual sectors. The information can be displayed and edited in both ASCII or hexadecimal. Sectors can be copied and exported to files."
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http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html - "Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end."
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http://www.digitalsystem.co.yu/download.html - "Info: A program for copying corrupted files which can't be copied the standard way because of some error on media the file is stored on."
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http://pjwalczak.com/scaven/index.php - "SCAVEN is a micro-tool for data recovery. It was designed to perform unattended multi-string searches through large hard drives. It records position of matches found to the output text file in a sector:offset:match format (fixed size column). SCAVEN is an effective tool and time saver in the recovering data from: files permanently deleted, files lost through overwrite, accidentally formatted drives, drives with damaged MBR / lost partitions, drives with corrupted FATs, drives which developed bad sectors, SCAVEN will not help if:drive developed mechanical problems (strange metallic sounds), motor is dead (not spinning at all), controller failed (drive not detected by BIOS)"
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http://www.salvagentfs.com/6.0.html - "SalvageNTFS is capable of scanning a partition, or even a whole disk drive, for anything that looks like valid NTFS data. Normally, the location of this information is stored on the volume itself; however, if this becomes damaged, the volume can become unusable. SalvageNTFS continues to function and can (after an exhaustive search) furnish a complete list of data that can be recovered. Additionally, most file system drivers fail less-than-gracefully when unexpected data is encountered. SalvageNTFS is able to identify damaged records, extract whatever information it can, and continue using the other portions of the volume with ease."
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http://www.mitec.cz/systools.htm - Powerful multiple files hexadecimal editor with following features: Data Inspector, Calculator, File Compare, Memory Dumper, Disk Dumper (NT only).
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http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html - "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. Ddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps. The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, run it in reverse mode, etc."
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http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/scrounge/ - "Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition. I wrote this program when one of my friends lost valuable data on an NTFS drive. It been used since then in several cases, but not thoroughly tested, especially not WRT the fact that it's a data recovery program. You should have your partition information stored away in advance. This allows reliable retrieval of file info."
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http://www.inner-smile.com/dl_piece.htm - "PieceCopy is a tiny tool which will extract a portion of a specific file. You can use it to extract data of files, to cut file headers, to retrieve binary data of a specific position, to rescue parts of damaged files/disks or whatever."
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http://www.copyhandler.com/en/manual/introduction-to-copy-handler.html - "# copying data at rates up to 6-7 times faster than standard MS Windows copying (when copying data from one partiton to another on the same physical hard disk); # allow full-control over the copying/moving process by pause, resume, restart and cancel features; fully customizable - over 60 detailed options - from setting language (multiple languages) through auto-resume on error, shutting down system after copying finished to very detailed and technical (customizing copy/move thread - buffer sizes, thread priority, ...) ending on sounds
on specific events;"
More Details
Name - Remote Recover v2.0
Not Yet Rated
Download URL - Download Here
Developer - Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell (SysInternals) OS - Windows NT/2000/XP File Size - 2.2 MB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT 16/32, NTFS Developer Provided Description - "Access unbootable systems from across a LAN or WAN. With Remote Recover you can access a dead x86 NT system's disks from a good system over a TCP/IP connection. You can then salvage data off of the drives using native NT commands and utilities. With the write-version you can even chkdsk, format or partition the dead system's drives! The read-only version is freeware." Comment - The developers, Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell (SysInternals) deserves a lot of credit for developing so many high quality pieces of technical but useful freeware. Name - ntRecover v1.0r Not Yet Rated Download URL - Download Here Developer - Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell (SysInternals) OS - Windows NT 3.51/ 4.0 File Size - 768 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT 16/32, NTFS Developer Provided Description - "Finally, the utility that NT system administrators have been waiting for. With ntRecover you can access a dead x86 NT system's disks from a good system over a serial connection. You can then salvage data off of the drives using native NT commands and utilities. With the write-version you can even run chkdsk on the dead system's drives! The read-only version is freeware." Comment - SysInternals free software :-). Name - iRecover Not Yet Rated Download URL - Download Here Developer - DIY DataRecovery OS - All current Microsoft Windows versions (including 2000 Server and Workstation, and XP) File Size - 1.14 MB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT, FAT32 and NTFS Developer Provided Description - "iRecover is a Windows based, read-only data recovery utility. iRecover offers FAT, FAT32 and NTFS file system support, and supports all current Microsoft Windows versions (including 2000 and XP, server and workstation). iRecover allows you to recover data from deleted, corrupt, reformatted and intact (for recovering deleted files) volumes by copying this data to any destination Windows assigns a drive letter such as additional hard disks, partitions, ZIP disks and mapped network shares. The program can be used by users of any experience level. The user is stepped through the recovery process from screen to screen. There are 2 modes of operation: Simple mode will only ask the user to select the disk and partition data should be recovered from. From there no user interaction is required until the to be recovered files can be selected from a list. The advanced mode allows the user to influence the recovery during all recovery phases though this is usually not required. Demo allows recovery of one full directory only." Comment - Demo allows recovery of a directory, otherwise, not free. Name - Linux-NTFS project Not Yet Rated Download URL - http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37/ Developer - DIY DataRecovery OS
- Linux File Size - ? Supported Software Versions or File Systems
- NTFS Developer Provided Description - "The goals of the Linux-NTFS
project are to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux
kernel driver, and by a user space filesystem (ntfsmount), and to provide a
wide collection of NTFS utilities (ntfsprogs) and a developer's library (libntfs)
for other GPLed programs. We have achieved already a lot, with high quality
results." Comment - Not Available Name - Active NTFS Reader for DOS Not Yet Rated Download URL - Download Here Developer - Active@ Data Recovery OS - MS-DOS File Size - 3330 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - NTFS, NTFS5 for reading, FAT 12/16/32 for data writing Developer Provided Description - "NTFS Reader DOS Boot Disk provides read access to NTFS drives from the MS DOS environment. It supports long filenames as well as compressed and fragmented files. NTFS Reader for DOS allows you to preview the files on NTFS and copy them from NTFS to FAT volumes or network drives. In order to use the software you need to copy the readntfs.exe file to a bootable floppy disk and boot from it. NTFS Reader for DOS is a FREEWARE" Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Name - Not Yet Rated Download URL -Download Here Developer - Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell (SysInternals) OS - DOS File Size - 38 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT 16/32/NTFS Developer Provided Description - "If you are interested in accessing NTFS drives from Windows 95 or Windows 98, then you should use NTFS for Windows 98 rather than NTFSDOS. Full read/write access to NTFS drives from DOS is available with NTFSDOS Professional Edition, part of Winternals Administrator's Pak. If you want to salvage files off a corrupt NTFS volume or repair an NTFS boot sector or partition table, see Disk Commander, also available in Winternals Administrator's Pak Comment - SysInternals free software :-). Name - Bart's PE Builder Not Yet Rated Download URL - Download Here Developer - Bart Lagerweij OS - Windows 2000/XP /2003/BartPE File Size - Not currently available. May be added later. Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT/NTFS Developer Provided Description - "Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. Comment - Super cool. Name - drs120.zip Not Yet Rated Download URL - Download Here Developer - Simtel OS - MS-DOS File Size - 100 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT 12/16/32 Developer Provided Description - "Data Recovery Software: Reads BAD disks" Comment - None Name - Roadkil's Sector Editor Not Yet Rated Download URL - Download Here Developer - Roadkil OS - Windows 9X/Me/NT/2000/XP File Size - 51.6 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT Developer Provided Description - "Allows displaying, editing, printing and searching of disks by individual sectors. The information can be displayed and edited in both ASCII or hexadecimal. Sectors can be copied and exported to files." Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Name - Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier Not Yet Rated Download URL - Download Here Developer - RoadKil OS - Windows NT/2000/XP File Size - 46.7 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT16/32/NTFS Developer Provided Description - "Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end." Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Name - DS File Ops Kit Not Yet Rated Download URL - dsfok.zip Developer - Dariusz Stanislawek OS - DOS File Size - 76 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Any Developer Provided Description - "with the DS File Ops Kit you can: Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Name - Copy It Anyway Not Yet Rated Download URL - Download Here Developer - Zoltan Geller OS - Windows NT/2000/XP File Size - 325 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT/NTFS Developer Provided Description - "Info: A program for copying corrupted files which can't be copied the standard way because of some error on media the file is stored on." Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Name - Scaven Not Yet Rated Download URL - scaven10.zip Developer - Piotr J. Walczak OS - DOS (in 9X and NT Based systems including XP) File Size - 5.59 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT12/16/32/NTFS Developer Provided Description - "SCAVEN is a micro-tool for data recovery. It was designed to perform unattended multi-string searches through large hard drives. It records position of matches found to the output text file in a sector:offset:match format (fixed size column). Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Name - SalvageNTFS Not Available Not Yet Rated Download URL - Releases There are not yet any releases, binary or otherwise, of SalvageNTFS. The CVS tree can also be accessed with a web browser via the SourceForge viewcvs interface. Note, however, that both of these services are subject to SourceForge outages. Developer - Will Glynn OS - Linux/Others? File Size - ? Supported Software Versions or File Systems - NTFS Developer Provided Description - "SalvageNTFS is capable of scanning a partition, or even a whole disk drive, for anything that looks like valid NTFS data. Normally, the location of this information is stored on the volume itself; however, if this becomes damaged, the volume can become unusable. SalvageNTFS continues to function and can (after an exhaustive search) furnish a complete list of data that can be recovered. Comment - You will have to compile this program yourself, if you know what that means. Not Yet Rated Download URL - MiTeC System Tools Developer - MiTeC OS - Windows 9x/Me/NT 4.x/2000/XP/Server 2003 File Size - Not Specified Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified Developer Provided Description - Powerful multiple files hexadecimal editor with following features: Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Not Yet Rated Download URL - Ddrescue - Data recovery tool Developer - Free Software Foundation, Inc. OS - Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP File Size - Not Specified Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Hard disk, CD Rom Developer Provided Description - GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. Ddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps. The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, run it in reverse mode, etc. Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Not Yet Rated Download URL - NTFS Reader Developer - Nielsen OS - Windows Me/NT/2000/XP File Size - Not Specified Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified Developer Provided Description - Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition. I wrote this program when one of my friends lost valuable data on an NTFS drive. It been used since then in several cases, but not thoroughly tested, especially not WRT the fact that it's a data recovery program. You should have your partition information stored away in advance. This allows reliable retrieval of file info. Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Not Yet Rated Download URL - Scrounge NTFS Developer - Nielsen OS - Windows Me/NT/2000/XP File Size - Not Specified Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified Developer Provided Description - Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition. I wrote this program when one of my friends lost valuable data on an NTFS drive. It been used since then in several cases, but not thoroughly tested, especially not WRT the fact that it's a data recovery program. You should have your partition information stored away in advance. This allows reliable retrieval of file info. Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Screenshot Not Available Not Yet Rated Download URL - SalvageNTFS Developer - SalvageNTFS OS - Windows File Size - Not Specified Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified Developer Provided Description - SalvageNTFS is a set of applications and an associated library aimed at data recovery from NTFS volumes, made freely available under the terms of the GNU General Purpose License. It can "undelete" files, bypass file system permissions, and retrieve information from badly corrupted or inconsistent volumes. Comment - Not currently available. May be added later. Please note: Honestly the commercial software and services is the route you will sometimes have to take to recover your data. That's not to discount the large number of high quality data recovery freeware generously given away by developers that you can see here. On those occasions that you try the freeware and it doesn't work, the software in these pages will appear not be worth the time and effort you put in and this can be frustrating. I try to point out at the top of each page, what I see is the likelihood that and difficulty with which freeware can recover your data. The Google Adsense Ads displayed on the pages should lead you to the standard commercial software and services available for the problem you are having. You can also try the commercial links by clicking on the Navigation Bar by that name on the left. It's also
here. For commercial software always be sure to try the demos first to see if the program works before buying. Also the difference in prices for software that does the same thing, for instance recovering PowerPoint Presentations, can be a large range like in this case $50 - 299. If possible, try several software solutions before buying. For services, be sure there is a no data, no fee guarantee, and a recovered file preview available. If you need help, I charge $22 for the first half hour and $22 for unlimited time after that. You can E-mail me at socrtwo@s2services.com. 
NTFSDOS.EXE is a read-only network file system driver for DOS/ Windows that is able to recognize and mount NTFS drives for transparent access. It makes NTFS drives appear indistinguishable from standard FAT drives, providing the ability to navigate, view and execute programs on them from DOS or from Windows, including from the Windows 3.1 File Manager and Windows 95 Explorer." 
It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!
PE Builder is not a Microsoft product and does not create Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment ("WinPE"). Using PE Builder does not grant you a license to Microsoft WinPE or to use the Windows XP or Server 2003 binaries in a manner other than stated in the End-User License Agreement included in your version of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has not reviewed or tested PE Builder and does not endorse its use." 
- backup any disk partition, including "live" and "hidden"
- backup entire disk, including "live"
- create an ISO CD-ROM or DVD-ROM image
- create a floppy disk image
- restore a floppy disk image
- save a block of data of any size from any location within a file
- overwrite a block of data of any size at any location within a file
- instantly create a file of any size
- truncate or extend files
- encrypt or decrypt files and directly overwrite them
- scan the volumes of a computer and get detailed infos
- check MD5 signature of a partial or complete data object
- join two files
- scramble a file with the contents of another one (OTP)
- do a bitwise reversion operation on any file
- securely erase files, partitions and disks
EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES
- restore disk partitions
- restore entire disk
(fast sector-level transfer)" 
SCAVEN is an effective tool and time saver in the recovering data from:
files permanently deleted
files lost through overwrite
accidentally formatted drives
drives with damaged MBR / lost partitions
drives with corrupted FATs
drives which developed bad sectors
SCAVEN will not help if:
drive developed mechanical problems (strange metallic sounds)
motor is dead (not spinning at all)
controller failed (drive not detected by BIOS)" CVS
The most current SalvageNTFS sources can be accessed via anonymous CVS. The SourceForge anonymous CVS password is an empty string - - simply press Enter at the prompt.
cvsroot/salvagentfs login
cvs -z3
-d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/
cvsroot/salvagentfs co src
Additionally, most file system drivers fail less-than-gracefully when unexpected data is encountered. SalvageNTFS is able to identify damaged records, extract whatever information it can, and continue using the other portions of the volume with ease."
Name - MiTeC System Tools 
Data Inspector
Calculator
File Compare
Memory Dumper
Disk Dumper (NT only)
Name - Ddrescue - Data recovery tool 
Name - NTFS Reader 
Name - Scrounge NTFS 
Name - SalvageNTFS
