Free Recovery Software

[Bob Q Kazoo]

Hey all,

 

So I did a new install of Windows a couple weeks ago and realized that one of my slave drives wasn't showing up anymore. I went into the partition manager and it said it was allocated space when in reality it was about 1TB of 2TB full. Not sure what happened but ran a disk scanner (Disk Drill) and it found everything. Issue is, the program is $90. Does anyone know of something that restores data like Disk Drill that is either much cheaper or free? (Windows or Linux)

 

Thank you very much,

BobQ

[pewpewboom]

if you just want to recover and copy out some files, https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

 

if you want to recover the whole partition you might need to pay, https://www.diskpart.com/compare-edition.html?from=en.nav.for-home

this offer some recovery but free version is limited 

edit: ok it seem like they have remove the recovery for the free version, i remember older free version they allow limited partition size recovery

Edited June 3, 2020 by pewpewboom
wrong info

[Bob Q Kazoo]

On 6/3/2020 at 4:51 AM, pewpewboom said:

if you just want to recover and copy out some files, https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

 

if you want to recover the whole partition you might need to pay, https://www.diskpart.com/compare-edition.html?from=en.nav.for-home

this offer some recovery but free version is limited 

edit: ok it seem like they have remove the recovery for the free version, i remember older free version they allow limited partition size recovery

Gotcha, appreciate it. Have you ever heard of something similar for Linux? I did a little bit of searching and couldn't really find much. I figured something for Linux would be open-source and free.

 

It just sucks how this happened. Literally didn't do anything with the drive. One second windows was like ayy I read this, then it was like ayy wut is this lol.

 

I did a scan and everything is still there, just isn't readable by Windows.

[pewpewboom]

for linux normally we use testdisk, well you can run it in windows too

but it come with high learning curve 

 

if your drive is using mbr, then it could be mbr table corrupted

you can try rebuilding mbr, backup everything and convert it to gpt (normally your files will be deleted)

which have redundancy by design less susceptible to corruption