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Ask HN: How to Retrieve Lost Files?
All files disappeared from my HDD. What are my options?
- aifooh7Keew6xoo 3y agoIf HDD, remove the hard drive, image it, apply data recovery software to image If SSD, mourn your lost data
- Temporarily21 3y agoHow to image it?
- theandrewbailey 3y agoLearn to have and use backups.
- sysadm1n 3y agoAnd if backing up, use the 3-2-1 strategy: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ > You may have heard of the 3-2-1 backup strategy. It means having at least three copies of your data, two local (on-site) but on different media, and at least one copy off-site.
- thesuperbigfrog 3y agoSpinrite (https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm) might help.
- eva_cananim 3y agoI'm just going to point to this blog post by a reputable data recovery company that tested spinrite and found that it "fixed" a bad sector by overwriting it with irrelevant data from elsewhere. https://www.recoveryforce.com/spinrite-a-data-recovery-program/ https://www.recoveryforce.com/spinrite-a-data-recovery-progr...
- thesuperbigfrog 3y ago>> blog post by a reputable data recovery company Coca-Cola's review of Pepsi cola finds that it does not taste as good. Reviewing a competitor's product == advertisement
- clubm8 3y ago[dead]
- undopamine 3y agoRecuva works. https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva
- lmorandi 3y agoIf it's an HDD as you said, you can try a tool like recuva: https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva, and if it's not enough, if you have knowedge in linux you can try foremost which is a forensics tool, it's gonna take more time but it's way better than recuva because of the way it works.