Data recovery help

Soldato
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Hi, got a mates drive here that suddenly decided to stop working and no backup been done since april...lots of baby photos on it :(

Have done plenty of data recoveries in the past and have various software for it from the free to the expensive and they are all saying that the drive is blank?

They all read and scan the drive no problem with no read errors or stalling...its almost like its a brand new drive thats never been used.

When i first got it i allowed windows to do a quick format (had to as they couldnt read the file structure) as i know that doesn't wipe the drive.

Any suggestions?

Cheers :)
 
Nope it definitely doesn't....well it does from a windows point of view but all the 0s and 1s of the data are still there and easily found with recovery software
 
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A little knowledge is danfgerous...turns out that hard drive my mate gave me was just a storage drive that had never been used!!!

Main drive was a raptor drive in an enclosure so he didnt realise that was the main drive!!!

Hours spent wasted running data recoveries on a blank unused drive :(

Happy ending though as getting pictures off faulty drive no problem now with just cut n paste :)
 
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