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MolGenBuckeye

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Does anyone here have experience recovering data from a bad hard drive?

I started seeing windows give errors about not being able to save certain files. They weren't anything I needed, so I tried to delete them, and windows said it couldn't.

So, I ran a chkdsk on the drive. After the chkdsk, windows now says there's nothing on it. :smash:

The BIOS still sees the drive fine. Windows is on and off as to whether it shows the drive now. I downloaded a program that finds deleted/lost files, and it showed some of the data, but not all of it. Plus, the free version only identifies files; you have to pay $300 for the version that recovers them.

I've got data on there I'd really like, but it's not worth enough to me to send off to some place that'll charge me thousands of dollars to recover it.

Any ideas?
 
MolGenBuckeye said:
Does anyone here have experience recovering data from a bad hard drive?

I started seeing windows give errors about not being able to save certain files. They weren't anything I needed, so I tried to delete them, and windows said it couldn't.

So, I ran a chkdsk on the drive. After the chkdsk, windows now says there's nothing on it. :smash:

The BIOS still sees the drive fine. Windows is on and off as to whether it shows the drive now. I downloaded a program that finds deleted/lost files, and it showed some of the data, but not all of it. Plus, the free version only identifies files; you have to pay $300 for the version that recovers them.

I've got data on there I'd really like, but it's not worth enough to me to send off to some place that'll charge me thousands of dollars to recover it.

Any ideas?
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old trick that "sometimes" works. take the drive out and put it in the freezer for an hour or two, then boot up and backup your files immediately.

it works sometimes, not all of the time.

try to get into safe mode and make backups.


also, take the drive out, and put it into another computer as the slave HD, you might be able to pull files from it.
 
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Howdy All! Somehow 2 different powerpoint lectures (.pptx) got deleted from both my Macbook Pro and Time Machine backup. Does anyone have a recommendation for a free data recovery tool that I could try to use to get these files back? I know it's a long shot because I've just now realized they are gone and there's a good chance they've been over-written, but it's worth a shot.

I just scanned the HD with Disk Drill and there are plenty of .pptx files there, but it doesn't show file names, so it's impossible to know if they're the right ones without shelling out $99 to recover.

Thanks all!

:oh:

P.S. - If I don't recover these files, my Saturday afternoon kickoff won't be nearly as enjoyable. Please help!
 
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