Data Recovery

[Antonym]

Does anyone know a free data recovery application/program that's free and could probably restore the whole 1TB drive?

[Origami Cactus]

Recuva

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

 

But it depends on how your hdd lost the data. If it is dead then it is hard to get the data of it for free.

[minibois]

Don't attempt any recovery yourself if your data is truly valuable. Any work you do can only make it more difficult for experts to get the data back. See this post as some inspiration to read into and make your own decision about.

 

Recuva is the only one I'm aware of, but i don't have First hand experiences.

From what I have heard, it can take a while to get the files back. Plus I think it is mainly made to recover deleted files, since it just goes over the registry (deleting files just sets the bit to 0, but the original data could still be found back).

[Antonym]

It was accidentally reformated by a friend of mine thinking it was his HDD. Like the quick reformat. I think a normal data recovery program can get it but it's capped to some mb usually. Recuva can recover with no cap? But I will try right now. Thanks man.

[moriel5]

Testdisk is awesome and FOSS, however you can easily cause much more damage with it if you have no idea what you are doing (especially since this is a command-line tool).

Another option, try using the data rescue feature in GParted (again, FOSS), that is much safer, and you can do it from nearly any Linux distro when livebooting it. This way you can try accessing your files from the file manager (a virtual copy is mounted).

[LogicalDrm]

Phoro-rec. Though with whole 1tb I would get quota from professional if data is really important. I've used photo-rec successfully with 16gb flash drive only.