seeing as how i'm coming up on the dozenth drive, i need something that can keep up.
anyway, i tried like hell to recover all data and came up on some great resources.
first, i didn't have an optical drive so i had to make all my files usb bootable.
| utility | score | comments |
| Rufus | 5/5 | Rufus will make a properly bootable USB drive given that you have a proper Windows based ISO file. |
| HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool | 1/5 | Not much better than your built in Windows format tool. |
| ISO to USB | 1/5 | Finicky tool; constant error messages. Used Rufus, and was done in no time at all. |
| Win32 Disk Imager | 4/5 | This only gets a 4 out of 5 because it does what it's supposed to well: slapping ISOs onto removable drives. I used this for putting Debian Wheezy onto a SD card for the Raspberry Pi and it worked like a charm. |
as for the recovery utilities, look no further than UBCD. UBCD is a DOS wizard and contains just about every utility you need from TestDisk to Parted Magic. it includes BIOS, CPU, boot management, data recovery, device info and management, diagnosis, disk cloning, disk editing, disk wiping, installation, partition management, memory, peripheral, and system utilities.
try it; trust me. i bet geek squad, ontrack, and even nerd herd uses it.
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