Recovery Software and/or How to Get HDD to Work?

[CAL Imagery]

To skip a long story, does anyone has of any software to recover pictures? Not from a CF card, I have the SanDisk disk for that, but software that can recover data from a HDD once deleted?

Or, my new HDD (not the same one as the opening paragraph) worked for a few days, and I transferred photos onto it, but now My Computer recognized it as "local disk" and if I click on it, it will ask if I want to format. Does anyone know how I can get the computer to open it up as I have 100 gigs of photos (although I only most of them on my PC hard drive - I'm glad I didn't delete them).

Sorry for the convoluted requests. Thanks.

[Bobster]

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

[digirebelva]

Hook it up as a slave drive, then run recovery software against it...let me know if you cant get anything..unless the HD physically wont move I have had good luck in recovering data from bad hd's

[CAL Imagery]

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
Excellent, thank you!

[ChasP505]

Hook it up as a slave drive, then run recovery software against it...

Agree... This would be my first course of action. I always keep a USB 2.0 external HD enclosure around... I would pop a troublesome HD in the enclosure and plug it into a different PC.

[Faolan]

Best recovery I've used (and I've used a lot over the years) is GetDataBack from Runtime Software:

http://www.runtime.org/

[digirebelva]

Best recovery I've used (and I've used a lot over the years) is GetDataBack from Runtime Software:

http://www.runtime.org/

+1 on that

[willowtree]

I use Active@ File Recovery http://www.file-recovery.net/

This recovers just about everything, there are 2 scan levels (time).
One of the plus points for me is that it names recovered files with the original name.

I have a copy of Sandisks RescuePro, which in fact will also recover from HDs though it says it won’t.

[Kronie]

I used http://www.uneraser.com a few months back and it worked O.K.