PC inspector WILL work. Let me try a step by step instruction for you though instructing is not something I do very well
1. Remove the faulty hard disk from your cabinet
2. Install the 4 gb drive as a primary an install windows on it (barebones XP preferably)
3. Install pc inspector file reovery on this 4gb drive
4. Install the corrupted drive as a slave/secondary
5. Fire up PC Inspector
6. Select Eglish in the language selection dialog
7. In the second window select the tab(button?) against
Recover deleted files. It will scan the drives on your system and show the available drives - both logical and physical in the next window
7. Next youll see a
Select drive window with tabs - Logical drives and Physical drives
8. Click on the
Physical drive tab
9. In the list inthe next window, in the list of drives, select your bad drive (Should prolly show as
fixed disk #2 if the 4GB drive is primary)
10. Click on
Find logical drives on the right of the window. This could take hours depending on the size of your disk
11. In the
Select sector range window set the
Start sector slider to 0 and the
End sector slider to the max and click on the ? tab(button?) to its left
12. Once the scanning is done it should automatically bring up the
Logical drives tab
13. Select the drive in the list. It should be listed as something like
C Drive on fixed disk #2 or something like that
14. Highlight it and click on the Check Mark at the bottom right hand corner
15. It should bring up a directory tree of all files and folders it could find under that Root
16. Click on the + sign next to
Root and LO! Abracadabra
If you dont find you files under that branch go to the
Object menu at the upper left hand corner of the main window, click on
Drive and select a different item from the listing under Logical drives
You could of course boot with Ultimate Boot CD. But it proly won't run PC inspector. And I don't know if it'd have HDD recovery tools. I've never used it myself.
Good Luck!
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