Quote (Lil_Gueto @ Jan 29 2017 07:18pm)
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?
red lighted stuff is corrupted and tbh you should re-install all software.
its only wise to take off the smaller more important things like documents/photo's/music etc.
If the drive is dying which it may be doing the worst thing you can do is use it.
so all these scans are wearing it down more and more.
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what separates spinrite from other applications is how aggressive it is at trying to recover those corrupted parts.
so long as teh media itself is not beyond recovery due to physical flaws spinrite has a really high chance of pulling off data.
one thing you can also do if its a platter drive is double ziplock it and place it in the freezer before doing the recovery process.
as the platters heat the expand and make data recovery much harder./
This post was edited by King Atrhur on Jan 29 2017 06:45pm