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Anyone know any programs or something I can use to recover everything? Had 900gb of data stored...


5k fg for answer that leads to resolution

Depends on the kind of failure.
If mechanical nothing will work short of a data recovery center.

If you need to rebuild the partition table or misc things Testdisk
Basic recovery file recovery > PhotoRec, Ease Us, Recuva (in that order imo)

If your real adamant about recovering data get a secondary drive and use spinrite to try and make a recovery clone of it.
https://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

Just spent hours scanning and doing the deep scan and at the end it tells me scanning is free but i have to pay for recovery.. (for easeus)


any way around this?


the other programs free or pay as well?

Recuva is free

pretty sure ease us has a free version. photorec is 100% free though and I don't use recuva but i assume it has a free/paid version.
spinrite is paid but its the best out of them all.

looking into photorec now - it says it can recover photos and documents - jpeg, html, pdf, movies etc , but makes no mention of songs? Do you know if it recovers mp3?



e/ nvm looks like it can!

This post was edited by Lil_Gueto on Jan 29 2017 06:08pm

Try Recuva. If it doesn't work...get Spinrite.

if he cared about the data that much he wouldn't keep wearing the drive down... as thats literally the worst thing he can do to a failing drive (keep using it)

Im using recuva atm

finished the scan and the positives is that it found all 906gb without any hassles or deep scan required


however, only some of the programs are green lighted (excellent / good condition) .... will the program be able to restore the red lighted "unrecoverable" programs ?







wearing the drive down?

This post was edited by Lil_Gueto on Jan 29 2017 06:19pm

It'll try at least.


/e From what I've read, most folks recover the green 1st, then TRY to recover the red.

This post was edited by Ghot on Jan 29 2017 06:23pm