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3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

first thing, make a image with ddrescue.

 

then id try photorec and testdisk.

 

3 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Recuva is popular

 

3 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I had to use Recuva's free offering on my sister's PC and it doesn't hold anything hostage as I remember. So you should be all set to just go ahead and use that.

 

2 hours ago, Doramius said:

As stated previously, Recuva works and there is a free version.  Works well with RAIDs, too.  

 

3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

well all of those are free.

 

dont recover files from the drive, make a image and use that. if you screw up when pulling the files off, you can lose even more data.

 

how did the drive fail

 

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I need to recover files from an SSD...what's a good free software solution for doing this?

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recover from an SSD as in....? Has it lost your partition? or is the drive dead? or have you overwritten/deleted something?

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2 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

recover from an SSD as in....? Has it lost your partition? or is the drive dead? or have you overwritten/deleted something?

No, I just got a used one, and whenever I get one pre-used, I always recover the files just for fun...it's just been such a long time since I did it I've forgotten which software I used to use. 

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3 minutes ago, GuruMeditationError said:

I need to recover files from an SSD...what's a good free software solution for doing this?

Recuva is popular

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2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Recuva is popular

I need a free one.

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4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

first thing, make a image with ddrescue.

 

then id try photorec and testdisk.

I need a free one ideally.

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5 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

https://www.piriform.com/recuva/download

Thanks, I think that's actually what I used before...I'm just reluctant to use it on the offchance that I go through the whole process only to have it ransom the files to me.

 

Currently using... http://www.puransoftware.com/File-Recovery-Download.html

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I had to use Recuva's free offering on my sister's PC and it doesn't hold anything hostage as I remember. So you should be all set to just go ahead and use that.

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13 minutes ago, GuruMeditationError said:

I need a free one ideally.

well all of those are free.

 

dont recover files from the drive, make a image and use that. if you screw up when pulling the files off, you can lose even more data.

 

how did the drive fail

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Oops double post. Sorry...exhausted.

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1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I had to use Recuva's free offering on my sister's PC and it doesn't hold anything hostage as I remember. So you should be all set to just go ahead and use that.

Thanks...I think it was the one I used to use also, it's just been a while...

 

...I think I'll run it after Puran File Recovery...not sure if it's any more effective than Puran, but I'll give it a try I think.

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2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

well all of those are free.

 

dont recover files from the drive, make a image and use that. if you screw up when pulling the files off, you can lose even more data.

 

how did the drive fail

Just was worried about going through the process to have the files ransomed to me.

It's a drive I just bought on eBay...I think it may have been used and I tend to try and see what's on it before I start using it...it's quicker than DBANing it.

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2 hours ago, Doramius said:

As stated previously, Recuva works and there is a free version.  Works well with RAIDs, too.  

Thanks...I've scanned the drive in question and it looked like it'd not been used.

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3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

first thing, make a image with ddrescue.

 

then id try photorec and testdisk.

 

3 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Recuva is popular

 

3 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I had to use Recuva's free offering on my sister's PC and it doesn't hold anything hostage as I remember. So you should be all set to just go ahead and use that.

 

2 hours ago, Doramius said:

As stated previously, Recuva works and there is a free version.  Works well with RAIDs, too.  

 

3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

well all of those are free.

 

dont recover files from the drive, make a image and use that. if you screw up when pulling the files off, you can lose even more data.

 

how did the drive fail

 

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3 minutes ago, GuruMeditationError said:

Thanks...I've scanned the drive in question and it looked like it'd not been used.

try using sudo less -f /dev/sdX and se if there is a header on that drive.

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4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

try using sudo less -f /dev/sdX and se if there is a header on that drive.

How do I do that...I googled it and it's a bit beyond my understanding...is it a command line input?

 

All of the sites I'm finding where that's discussed assume a level of background knowledge I just don't have. :/ 

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1 minute ago, GuruMeditationError said:

How do I do that...I googled it and it's a bit beyond my understanding...is it a command line input?

yep works on most Unix like systems suck as osx,llinux, freebsd

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

yep works on most Unix like systems suck as osx,llinux, freebsd

Oh okay...I'm on Windows 10. 

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