How to Recover Data from a Hard Drive / SSD

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"Ah, f***! Seriously? Seriously, Hard Drive? You're going to do this to me, now? I have that presentation you just deleted due in 45 minutes. I'm going to fail the interview. I won't get the job. I'll be sent on a spiral of unparalleled self-hate and destruction, and then my life will be over. IS that what you want, Hard Drive, you sack of sh**!? GAAAH" Have you ever said this to yourself? If you have, it may be too late. But for the rest of you, watch this video to learn how to recover data from a hard drive or SSD. Tools for cloning a storage drive: DriveImage XML: http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm Clonezilla: http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm Macrium Reflect Free: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx Paragon: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/index.html NCIX Tech Services: http://www.ncix.com/techservices/ See news sources + discuss on our Forums: http://www.ncix.com/article/NMG.htm?url=http://forums.ncix.com/ Follow Us! http://www.ncix.com/article/NMG.htm Episode Credits: Host: Linus Sebastian Writer: Riley Murdock Editor: Barret Murdock

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  1. Read this tale of woe:
    I accidentally deleted the partition on my SSD storage drive. This is worth knowing about; Normally on any platter based drive you make a new partition, reformat and data recover else some tools simply cannot see the drive. However, with SSDs which are massively RAIDed internally for speed, it turns out formatting is the wrong thing to do as all the memory sub-controllers get issued with a block-wipe command and in the blink of an eye all your data is gone.

    I had most everything backed up and it was a fast temporary working drive but I did loose photography I cannot redo.

    Don't make this mistake!!! (wags finger!)
  2. I'm scared
  3. the recuva is not much of effective on free i used and it sucked
  4. ssds use trim and the data is unrecoverable, from my own experience unfortunately
  5. Mini Partition Wizard is free and quite effective.
  6. just run malearebytes for the virus :)
  7. What if you reformat the hdd? Can you still recover any data?
  8. Recuva is the Best lifesaver in this kinda cases!! worked like a charm 3 times.
  9. Hi tech tips, is there anyway to restore data from a corrupted hard drive?
  10. I had a disastrous data recovery on my android device
  11. We had to format a Clients Laptop as his registry was broken, even after attempting to repair his registry. Any way he brings in his laptop and as we turn on his laptop, it boots up and Explorer is broken, it keeps on crashing. We had to use a programme called Q-Dir to make a back up of his data.We had made a back up of his data BUT we did not back up his Documents folder because there was no Documents folder to back up because his company uses folder redirection, neither did we back up his windows folder specifically CSC folder (cached files or offline files) We then proceeded to format his laptop and restored his data of what we where able to back up. He came back to us and told us that his documents where missing. There isn't documents on the company's Server. We used a programm called EaseUS (Trial version) and it managed to recover his data, except the documents that he had been currently working on.
  12. The best way I've found to recover data is to hire a succubus and seduce it.
  13. how about a hard drive that doesn't turn on?
  14. I've recovered a WD 3TB Green drive with the Ultimate Boot Dish (Parted Magic). I used the WD Diagnostic Tools to test whether the drive was functioning properly then I used TestDisk within Parted Magic to restore the partition table of the accidentally deleted partition. It was pretty simple but not the most user friendly. I would imagine there would be friendlier software but this does work.
  15. There is nothing best and fast to recover files than photorec and testdisk.
    Free, open and reliable
  16. I find that whenever I upgrade to a new PC, the previous HDD from your old PC you've owned is useful as a backup drive since it has a OS on it and you can then change the boot drive (in bios) when you want to use each different drive. For example my old PC that has windows 7 Ultimate on it is my backup as I don't use it that often for media editing and other stuff on it like drive formatting. Anyway, since that is my backup, I have another drive for common use which runs Windows 7 Home Premium as it has everything I need for general use like gaming and internet surfing, if that then can't do what I want it for I can then change drive.
  17. What about if your drive just won't spin up?Thats my problem,I think I need an identical replacement logic board,but I am not certain :(
  18. Can't believe no one has come up with a hard drive that does more than just delete the damn index...when you delete files.
  19. How to hell linus is in this strange chanell:O
  20. My 3tb drive all of a sudden change to a raw partition. what to do.