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Chris
February 29th, 2008, 06:17 PM
Anyone have any ideas on how to recover data lost on a zip disk? Any special software or service that could do this? I have a couple of zip disks that are telling me they need to be formatted, but I know there is data on them. :tsk They are not working properly in the zip drive. I contacted Iomega and they wanted $350 per disk to recover the data. :doh :ohno :tsk

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. :)

P.S. - I know Zips are outdated, but that is all I had a few years ago when my motherboard or hard drive suddenly went out on me. :ohno The data was also on the computer hard drive, but I can't get windows to load properly, in other words I can't get the desktop to come up although it tries to pull it up. :ohno

Thanks in advance.

Chris
drmaul
March 1st, 2008, 10:21 AM
You might have luck with the following utility by GRC.

http://www.grc.com/tip/clickdeath.htm
ghetto guy
March 1st, 2008, 01:03 PM
Youll have better luck if you put the hard drive in a working computer (as the slave drive or on the 2nd IDE cable) and boot from that computer's hard drive. Then you should be able to copy your files from your old drive to an external hard drive or a cd or a... You could even send it to me and I can do that for you.
lyngraphics
March 1st, 2008, 01:04 PM
oooo.... those darn zip disks! I have lost so much information when I used those!!
I wish you the best of luck!!!
drmaul
March 2nd, 2008, 09:44 PM
Did you look at the SpinRite utility by GRC? You didn't mention if your Zip Drive was SCSI or LPT. Just curious. Good Luck with your data recovery. I feel for you.:hug
Hal4511
March 3rd, 2008, 08:24 AM
I didn't realize anyone used zip disks anymore .......
Chris
March 9th, 2008, 07:38 PM
I didn't realize anyone used zip disks anymore .......

They are old ones from the late 90's and early 2000's. I don't just throw stuff out because there is something new. I use them until they go bad. Then migrate to the new stuff.

Thanks for the replies, I'm still unable to retrieve the data. Oh well. :)
ghetto guy
March 9th, 2008, 07:40 PM
If you haven't done anything to the hard drive I could retrieve the data off of it.
drmaul
March 9th, 2008, 10:24 PM
Hate to hear that Chris. I thought for sure GRC SpinRite along with TIP could help you.
Buzzardhut
March 10th, 2008, 01:04 AM
been a long time since I've seen zip drives.

Try bad copy (http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/download.asp)

or

Floppy Zip Disk Rescue (http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/85257/index.html)

or

Stellar (http://www.download.com/Stellar-Phoenix-Digital-Media-Recovery/3000-12511_4-10398932.html?part=dl-10398932&subj=dl&tag=button)

these are demos, if one works you might need to buy the full version to recover the complete disk