Root so many options... I don't know which one?!?!

[liljustinh]

I want to root my phone but I dont know which way to do it... is there upsides or down sides to any of them or is there a better one... PLEASE HELP!!!

 

[liljustinh]

Alright I need help now... so I just used the captivate root on the link in the faq on teh top, I then ran clockwork and then backedup. after the backup I installed cognition rom, when it installed that I lost all my data... so i tried to perform a restore using rom manager and now it just keeps rebooting to the boot selection screen. can anyone help me!

 

[Prim8]

You can try Odin but it wont get you your data back if it's gone.
[STOCK ROM] Odin3 One-Click Downloader and Drivers CAPTIVATE ONLY - xda-developers

 

[sremick]

If you were just trying to root, you shouldn't have gone at it with a bulldozer and a cannon. It's not necessary to put on a hacked non-stock ROM just to get root. You went about it the hard way changing up a lot more stuff than necessary and so it increased the risks of something going wrong.

The proper way, for future reference:
Root - CapFAQ