Harddrive Recovery

[Ruda]

Dear Beloved Community

 

I am turning to you again and I seek help. My friend has connected his External USB had drive to an Android device and accidentally formatted the contents.

I have advised him to disconnect the drive and prevent any writes to the drive.

 

In order to recover the data, we have tried Recuva and a whole bunch of other software but it turns out its quite a minefield. Almost everything can find the data, but it charges a hefty sum to recover the data (requires the pro versions)

 

Can you recommend me any alternative which works and I wont have to sell my liver. 

(sorry not a native speaker + purchasing power in the Easter block is not what it used to be, hence the price. For us is ~80 USD quite a bit)

 

Thanks again.

[Bitter]

I've had good luck with Photorec to get back media and documents, you might try testdisk to just "un-format" the drive.