Free equivalent of EaseUS?

[dirtychinchilla]

Hey guys,

So I did some work on a friend's computer and it all went well, pretty much installing Windows 10, and transferring his iTunes library to an external HD (someone quoted him £500 for this!!!). Everything eventually went really well and I had the HD all sorted, laptop running beautifully etc.

I gave him back the laptop with hard drive...and get a message that it's corrupted. He's given me back the HDand I'm looking at it now. Basically, it's corrupted, and when you try and access it in Windows it says not permissible, I think.

I think what happened was that I left the HD plugged in, the PC tried to boot from it, and so I turned off the PC and unplugged the HD. I think the HD must still have been winding down.

I've had a look with EaseUS and various other programs. EaseUS does actually show the contents of the drive! So it's still there, but now I don't want to pay £50 for this software unless I have to.

Can anyone recommend a free equivalent? I've tried a couple of others but they didn't actually seem to do anything...help me please!!!

 

[lsg1r]

Assuming you want to 'recover the files' you could try recuva from the same people that make ccleaner.

Pretty sure the free version would cover what you want to do although I can't say I've had the need to use it due to my overkill approach to backups lol

edit: easeus do a free version of the data recovery program too

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Didn't seem to work for me! I may have resolved the issue in a different way...a hoy hoy.

 

[platypus]

Recuva64 seems to be a good tool.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Thanks platypus. I've actually succeeded! What a ****ing relief!!!!!

 

[platypus]

Good to hear .