Has anyone every used data recovery software? How does it work?

a couple of years ago my hard drive got infected and i ran antivirus software and after it was done it said "to remove the malware infections u must restart for the changes to take affect". I did and thats when it happend it went to the blue stop screen that alot of us have experienced and hate. Anyway i called best buy to see if they do any kind of recovery to get the data back and they said yes but at $150.

So i shelved it for a long time. But then recently i was looking online for some "do it yourself" recovery type programs that you can buy that says it will get the data loss back and repair your hd d and where u can run your own hd d diagnostics on it in one program. Has anybody used any kind of data recovery program before? and if so did u have any luck? and how does it work? thanks!

btw - i do have a p4, hp, xp, with 2 ide ribbons cables %26 2 power cables conneted 2 the ribbons.

Has anyone every used data recovery software? How does it work?internet security software

I like the data recovery program from R-Studio. Is is fairly easy to use and what I liked it was able to get back all the data I had lost but I will say it is a little expensive, about $80 I believe. Not bad considering Best Buy wanted $150 from you and then you may even help friends out after buying it such as I did.

This is the deal I would try if I were you though to save a few bucks. Try installing the hard drive as a slave drive and see if you can get any data back off the drive that way. The blue screen of death doesn't mean you lost your data, just that there is a problem with the Windows operating system. So, the hard drive being set to slave should start up and run no problem and all data should be able to be transferred you want with no issues.