Hi All,
My WD external drive I used to use for my backups recently decided to go belly up on me so I've been playing around with different bits of software to try see if I can recover it and just wanted to get some advise on which programs you guys have the most success with.
Yes I've cloned the drive and no I'm not paying a grand to take it to a professional. If I can get some stuff back great, which I have, but there's still quite a lot I haven't. It's not worth taking to a professional though it's only my programming courses and vacation stuff so it's a nice to have but not a burn a hole in my wallet to have.
I first tried EaseUS to try scan and recover the drive. That took about 4 hours and recovered only 9GB of data. I went to scan the drive several times after that and it just completes very quickly and says there's nothing left to recover.
I then did some googling and found a lot of people recommend disk drill so I tried that and 4 days later it's found a further 10GB of stuff and says it still has 809 hours to go.
While disk drill is running in the background, I did some googling to find which software's supposed to be the best for recovering corrupted photos and have tried 2 of them so far. Wondershare recover it which removed the corruption but turns a 4K image into a 128x96 image which is completely useless. I also tried kernel photo repair which did not remove the corruption.
Which other software should I try? Thanks for the assistance!
My WD external drive I used to use for my backups recently decided to go belly up on me so I've been playing around with different bits of software to try see if I can recover it and just wanted to get some advise on which programs you guys have the most success with.
Yes I've cloned the drive and no I'm not paying a grand to take it to a professional. If I can get some stuff back great, which I have, but there's still quite a lot I haven't. It's not worth taking to a professional though it's only my programming courses and vacation stuff so it's a nice to have but not a burn a hole in my wallet to have.
I first tried EaseUS to try scan and recover the drive. That took about 4 hours and recovered only 9GB of data. I went to scan the drive several times after that and it just completes very quickly and says there's nothing left to recover.
I then did some googling and found a lot of people recommend disk drill so I tried that and 4 days later it's found a further 10GB of stuff and says it still has 809 hours to go.
While disk drill is running in the background, I did some googling to find which software's supposed to be the best for recovering corrupted photos and have tried 2 of them so far. Wondershare recover it which removed the corruption but turns a 4K image into a 128x96 image which is completely useless. I also tried kernel photo repair which did not remove the corruption.
Which other software should I try? Thanks for the assistance!
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