My motherboard died, and now I need to hook the harddrives up to another PC to get the data off. Problem: Some of it was in the "My Documents" folder, and I can't get to it without being logged on to an admin account. I have no way of doing that, since I can't boot from the old windows installation anymore. [more inside]
posted by borkingchikapa on Sep 16, 2006 - 4 answers

Can I recover data (pictures) from a bad DVD-R? [more inside]
posted by bingwah on Jul 31, 2006 - 8 answers

Recommended data recovery places in New York City, specifically Manhattan? It shouldn't be a huge problem, but I don't want to just pick a name from the Yellow Pages. There is, of course, [more inside]
posted by booksandlibretti on Feb 28, 2006 - 11 answers

Is there any hope for my dying/dead Serial ATA drive? [more inside]
posted by Venadium on Feb 8, 2006 - 9 answers

Can you help rescue my digital photographs from their silver grave? [more inside]
posted by bonaldi on Jul 12, 2005 - 3 answers

Can anyone recommend a very good data recovery tool? After installing a new secondary HD, XP decided that my tertiary drive was corrupted and "fixed" it for me.
posted by geckoinpdx on Jan 14, 2005 - 6 answers

Data recovery, OS X, on an accidentally initialized hard drive. The guy at the shop has informed my brother that files are basically unrecoverable under those circumstances - something to do with how OS X installs a new system or some such. Is this so? [more inside]
posted by furiousthought on Nov 27, 2004 - 7 answers