Hard Drive Recovery
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gamblingman
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I agree with johnb35, just make sure to enable deep scan when you go to scan. I've used this tool effectively on many different devices, its done the trick every time so far.
gamblingman
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Nice, thanks for letting us know! I would love to have some info about your recovery for future reference in helping others:
1. About how long did it take to run?
2. How did you reformat the HDD, did you use the windows reformat or a 3rd party program like KillDisk?
3. Did you get everything recovered or was it unable to recover some things?
4. If some things were unrecoverable, what items were they: specific files, hidden/protected files, large files/folders, small files/folders, system items, etc...?
5. How much were you trying to recover? (in MB or GB)
6. How old is it and how much do you use it?
7. What size is the hard drive? (in GB)
8. What brand/model of hard drive is it?
If I were you I would run CheckDisk on that hard drive to make sure there aren't any faults. Let us know if it finds and fixes any problems.
1. Open to My Computer and select the hard drive you recovered, right click on it and select "Properties".
2. Move to the "Tools" tab.
3. Click on the "Error-Checking/Check-Disk" operation button.
4. When the "Error-Checking/Check-Disk" box appears put a check-mark in both boxes.
5. Then click "Start" to run the program. Don't try to use the hard drive during the check-disk process.
1. About how long did it take to run?
2. How did you reformat the HDD, did you use the windows reformat or a 3rd party program like KillDisk?
3. Did you get everything recovered or was it unable to recover some things?
4. If some things were unrecoverable, what items were they: specific files, hidden/protected files, large files/folders, small files/folders, system items, etc...?
5. How much were you trying to recover? (in MB or GB)
6. How old is it and how much do you use it?
7. What size is the hard drive? (in GB)
8. What brand/model of hard drive is it?
If I were you I would run CheckDisk on that hard drive to make sure there aren't any faults. Let us know if it finds and fixes any problems.
1. Open to My Computer and select the hard drive you recovered, right click on it and select "Properties".
2. Move to the "Tools" tab.
3. Click on the "Error-Checking/Check-Disk" operation button.
4. When the "Error-Checking/Check-Disk" box appears put a check-mark in both boxes.
5. Then click "Start" to run the program. Don't try to use the hard drive during the check-disk process.
gamblingman
VIP Member
Do you know the specific model number or name?
And I appreciate for the feedback, it'll be useful for the notes!
And I appreciate for the feedback, it'll be useful for the notes!
techno_workers
New Member
that's good reference..
techno_workers
New Member
how to use recuva?? if use recuva can we get back all the data???
id second that recuva is the best one available on the web by far, however something else to consider is GETBACKNTFS which also yields some very good results for me, recuva is amazing in its advanced mode but while it does increase scan times but it reforms the fill paths and trees so you can easliy find missing data +1 for recuva
Metal Man 2
Member
+1 for the recova. I did a factory restore on my computer that got locked out by a virus. I lost some pictures. Johnb35 here told me about the Recova. I ran it and it took about 2 hours for a "deep search" it pulled up about 5000 images going back to when I got the laptop. I got all my pictures back
