data recovery Files Corrupted

[Yocracra]

I have and 250GB SSD holding W10 and some random files, plus a 1TB HDD with everything else on it. I’m guessing I corrupted the HDD by accidentally kicking the power switch on my breaker off because I got a corruption warning while loading steam and my network adapter keeps disconnecting and reconnecting. I’ve looked online and found a software called AnyRecover that seems pretty great. Is it legitimate? Are there better options? Is there any thing I should know? Any tips? Thanks.

[Radium_Angel]

6 minutes ago, Yocracra said:

Any tips? Thanks.

At least with Steam, it has an "autocorrect corrupted files" option built in to it.

Windows (prior to Win10 anyway, can't vouch for Win10 as I do not use it) also has it built-in via "sfc" and "chkdsk"

 

[WereCatf]

26 minutes ago, Yocracra said:

AnyRecover

That's for recovering lost files, it doesn't repair corrupted ones. There is no magic that can repair corrupted files, unless you're using some sort of a self-healing RAID-solution; corrupted files have to be re-downloaded or re-installed from scratch.

[Yocracra]

1 hour ago, WereCatf said:

There is no magic that can repair corrupted files, unless you're using some sort of a self-healing RAID-solution; corrupted files have to be re-downloaded or re-installed from scratch.

RAID solution?

[WereCatf]

4 minutes ago, Yocracra said:

RAID solution?

Yes, like e.g. software-RAID1/5/6/10 using Btrfs or ZFS, since those filesystems can detect and automatically correct bitrot, corruption etc. Neither filesystem is available for Windows, tho.

[Yocracra]

2 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Yes, like e.g. software-RAID1/5/6/10 using Btrfs or ZFS, since those filesystems can detect and automatically correct bitrot, corruption etc. Neither filesystem is available for Windows, tho.

Are there any that are available for W10? If not, is there any softwares that can at least detect which files are corrupted?

[Yocracra]

2 hours ago, WereCatf said:

That's [AnyRecover] for recovering lost files, it doesn't repair corrupted ones.

Well that’s not quite what the article says here.

You can check other articles on this too.

[WereCatf]

Just now, Yocracra said:

If not, is there any softwares that can at least detect which files are corrupted?

In most cases no. To detect that a file is corrupted, you'd need to know what the file is supposed to be like when it's not corrupted, whether it's a checksum or a pristine copy of it. Most files do not have checksums and since you're not using RAID, you don't have pristine copies of them to use for checking, either.

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Yocracra said:

Well that’s not quite what the article says here.

You can check other articles on this too.

It's marketing. Like I said, there is no magic that can somehow whip out correct data out of thin air, unless the correct data is still available somewhere. That software can repair files only if all the pieces of the files are actually still on the disk and it can actually detect which pieces belong to which file in which order -- if it can't detect all the missing pieces, guesses their order wrong, or if some of the pieces weren't yet written to the disk in the first place because the system lost power before that, then that software cannot do anything about it.

 

That said, if you wish to believe them instead of me, go ahead.

[Jplayz07]

You could use WeRecoverData.com, at least thats what Linus used

https://www.werecoverdata.com

Edited October 22, 2019 by Jplayz07