Hard Drive Recovery Software

Review by Tom Betress: I purchased Hard Drive Mechanic. I am a network engineer, teach in the computer science division at a college and have my own consulting business. I have come across many problems that appear to have no explanation for cause and sometimes no FIX either. I was working on a machine for a company that had a "hard drive crash". All their accounting information was on there with no backup. Couldn't access the drive no matter what utilities I tried. thought it was a gonner for sure. I tried Norton Util, MicroScope, etc., and no luck. At my local computer store Ind saw they had Hard Drive Mechanic, figured I had nothing to loose and my customer obviously couldn't be in any worst condition. I purchased it, I booted from the floppy, and amazingly... (5/5 - 7-Feb-2006)

Review by Nelson Ma: This software really worked well for me. My hard drive crashed and would no longer boot up. I figured I would try this drive mechanic software before I reformat the disk and loose all my data. I'm happy to say that my hard drive is back working and I was able to recover everything. The problem was a "damaged partition table" and crossed linked files.. or something like that. For anyone thinking about buying the hard drive mechanic... it comes with a 30 day money back guarantee. I was planning on returning it if it didn't fix my problem. In my case it turned out to be worth the $70. (5/5 - 27-May-2006)

Review by me: 1. Does not recognise sata drive 2. Emails returned - addressee unknown 3. trying to get payment returned. 4. Recommended? - no chance! (1/5 - 27-Apr-2007) Review by Mark: Way over-rated. Very poorly written users guide. Too much burde on the user to download other software to make Mechanic software start. Very limited capbility - can only handle one drive. No tech support -- phone number provided is fictitious. One job that is running has been going for over 24 hours. Crappy untested junk! (1/5 - 16-Feb-2007) Review by Rick Ground: Hard Drive Mechanic would not run on my machine. Support is nearly nonexistant. The 30-day moneyback guarantee is also worthless - once you have paid, they don't respond. (1/5 - 24-Nov-2006) Review by Robert Walraven: I'm not very computer savvy and my computer seems to almost always have some kind of problem. When my hard drive would no longer boot I purchased the Hard Drive Mechanic to try and repair it myself. At first, I couldn't repair my PC and thought the program didn't work. After another try, the Hard Drive Mechanic found FAT errors and partition table damage. Thank God that it fixed the problems automatically because I don't know what I'm doing. The Drive Mechanic is guaranteed to work so I was going to just return it if I couldn't figure it out. Now that I know it works I am keeping it for next time I mess up my computer. (5/5 - 1-Aug-2006) Review by adc: Actually I tried to use the Hard Drive Mechanic again to recover my drive and I am now able to boot up again. Every software I would run was crashing because of my hard drive errors.. (100% recovered now!) Turns out to be worth every penny of the 69 dollars I paid. (5/5 - 31-Jul-2006)

Review by Jitesh Nagar: Excellent!!, and quite in depth. will recover most drives. I had lots of bad sectors, this cleaned up the lot. (5/5 - 1-Sep-2006)

Review by Han Feigh: For anyone thinking about buying the hard drive mechanic... I tried it because it comes with a 30 day money back guarantee. Honestly, I planned on getting a refund after using it. In about 10 minutes, it scanned and repaired my crashed hard drive that was unreadable. For me, it turned out to be worth the $70. (5/5 - 23-May-2007)