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<p class=MsoNormal>One of my friends windows machine died today – boots up
only half way through the windows splash screen and freezes. There is one
file he wants to recover out of it, but it seems to be suffering from hardware
failure because attaching the disk via USB enclosure to another computer will
only let him load the USB mass storage device, and won’t go any further
than that…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>So my question is …<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>What are the software hard disk recovery applications that
people like, which may save his file(s) and/or his dollars for him?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Of course, free is awesome, but commercial might be ok too.<o:p></o:p></p>
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