>>1233520>Send it to a data recovery shop, and stop messing with it in the interimI'm pretty sure I have torrents on there and I don't trust a random company not to snitch
>The next thing you're going to say is "by 'absolutely cannot', I meant 'cannot so long as the price is $30 or less'"Little bit of column A, little bit of column B. I don't exactly have any spare cash.
>>1233614>quick format the drive and use recuva to see what's not fubarI think i'll use that as a final solution if I absolutely can't get anything off it.
>>1233630 >Get another disk of equal or greater capacity, and make a disk image of it using getdataback or ddrescue.
I think i'll try this first. I'm using Win10, and I read that ddrescue is linux only or something? Some people have told me to mount it to a linux VM and do ddrescue there somehow, but I don't have much experience with linux or VMs.
>So don't write to it, and try to minimise reading from it.Does that mean I should leave it unplugged? I have a few older drives that are sitting around unused, and it would be cool if I could salvage stuff off them too.
>>1233727>This kind of hard drive can still have all the files read off of it using a command line freeware tool called Testdisk by GRENIERSuch great news. I suspected it was just like the file system or one bad sector, not the entire thing or like physical damage or something. idk if I had alot of zip files, do zip files survive data recovery easily?
>you have to decide if the drive went badIt could be either of those, it could be that HDDs are unreliable and shitty. I'm never buying a HDD again, and the worst part is, is that even if I recovered everything and formatted it, I don't trust them anymore to keep anything important on there that I can lose. The other drive is functional, but crystaldiskinfo says it has 1 bad sector, how do I fix it?
>>1233874>>1233927Yeah Brilliant, thanks. I was pretty stressed out and lost, but its looking like this is the best route.
