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Recovering a damaged HDD

So, I have a 100gb hdd in my pc that I use for storing photos and music. Well, the other day it just stopped working and everytime I click on it, it says something about it not being formatted. I was going to try and do data recovery on it and see if that would get at least some of the files back for me, but I don't know what the best software is to use out there. So, does anyone have a suggestion for a software to use to recover data that is good? Obviously, free would be better than paying, but I don't even know where to start and I am not opposed to paying for something that will actually work.

Thanks in advance!
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Be clear, do you simply have a corrupted file system, or are the sectors on the disk unreadable, or do you have both problems? For the former, you can use a data recovery package; I've had good experience with R-Studio. If the drive is unreadable, try the freezer trick, that has worked for me in the past when I had failing laptop drive. If the freezer trick makes the disk readable, but the file system is corrupted, you will need to use the two together.
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BuddyBoy said:
Be clear, do you simply have a corrupted file system, or are the sectors on the disk unreadable, or do you have both problems? For the former, you can use a data recovery package; I've had good experience with R-Studio. If the drive is unreadable, try the freezer trick, that has worked for me in the past when I had failing laptop drive. If the freezer trick makes the disk readable, but the file system is corrupted, you will need to use the two together.
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I don't know exactly what the problem is. Everytime I try to click on the drive from "My Computer", it kinda locks up the computer for a minute then tells me the drive isn't formatted. I think I will try the "freezer trick" first then go from there.

Thanks for the help guys.
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If possible, use the Event Viewer to see if you were getting hardware errors reading the disk. Otherwise, there are vendor-supplied standalone DOS utilities that you can use to diagnose the disk, such as SeaTools for Seagate drives. Other vendors should have similar diagnostic tools available for download from their site. There are also "boot disks" floating around that have multiple vendor tools on them, which you can choose from at boot time.
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I just recovered a defunct hard drive last week. It was my fault! I accidentally reformatted a good drive loaded with 440Gb of video project files. I guess even I can do something really stupid once in awhile.

I have "File Scavenger" You can download it and see if the files will be recoverable for free but to do the recover you have to pay. I buy the cheapest license which is $49 and unlock the software. The let 'r rip for a long time to a new hard drive.

Assume your drive is electrically OK and just the file system is corrupt.

I find it best to use a spare fast computer because the drive discovery / recovery could take more than a day.

It works with USB connected drives too.

One bit of warning- DO NOT attempt to experiment with the drive before attempting the most exhaustive and longest test search for defunct files. The more you play with the drive the more you may screw up any chance of recovery.



check it out at: Harddrive / hard disk / floppy disk data recovery software
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I am dealing with this tonight as well for a friend. Her desktop has stopped booting. It gets about halfway through the startup process and it blue screens. I ran SpinRite on it and it booted fine. I told her to back all her stuff up and we are going to replace the drive.

The other drive I am working on now is for a photographer friend o f mine who hasn't backed up these photos he is working on. The drive is doing something similiar to what you are saying. In windows it looks like a blank drive. I am using ubuntu on my laptop and so I did some googling around to find a linux program to try to recover the partition table.
I found a free program called TestDisk that is doing an amazing job. It scanned the drive, found all of the partitions that used to be on the disk, I selected the 1 I wanted, and it showed me the folder tree, and I selected the folders I needed... it is copying the files back as I type this. So if you happen to have a linux box, or an old machine you can throw ubuntu on, give TestDisk a try. I am very happy with its results... and its free.
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AI Hiking Advice Nearly Turns Deadly on Mount Shasta #shorts

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Google's AI Ultimatum for Schools

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Religious Exemption from Using AI?

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The Binance Crypto Heist

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Dish Bankruptcy - Business as Usual

Looks like dish is Bankrupt. Filling tomorrow Tuesday June 30th
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SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has discussed the deal personally, meeting with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to the people. The potential deal may result in SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile or SpaceX gaining access to its network, which it leases from AT&T and T-Mobile US, the people said.
Access to those lease agreements would be a coup for SpaceX. The back door would allow Musk to make a play for a U.S. wireless market that equity research firm MoffettNathanson estimates is worth $235 billion. But the proposed service may need consent from those carriers for the service to actually launch, the people said.
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nelson61 said:
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SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has discussed the deal personally, meeting with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to the people. The potential deal may result in SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile or SpaceX gaining access to its network, which it leases from AT&T and T-Mobile US, the people said.
Access to those lease agreements would be a coup for SpaceX. The back door would allow Musk to make a play for a U.S. wireless market that equity research firm MoffettNathanson estimates is worth $235 billion. But the proposed service may need consent from those carriers for the service to actually launch, the people said.
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Can't remember where or who I saw predict this. :D

It wouldn't surprise me to see Elon soon own all of DISH / Echostar in the future.
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Scott Greczkowski said:
It wouldn't surprise me to see Elon soon own all of DISH / Echostar in the future.
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Again, why would Musk want a TV Service, specially one that is losing over a million subscribers a year.

Phone service…maybe, but not TV.
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Bruce said:
Again, why would Musk want a TV Service, specially one that is losing over a million subscribers a year.

Phone service…maybe, but not TV.
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I know he wants TV. He wants to deliver EVERYTHING to EVERYWHERE.
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Scott Greczkowski said:
I know he wants TV. He wants to deliver EVERYTHING to EVERYWHERE.
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Again, if so, why would he want Dish/Sling of all the providers?

He could deliver anything without actually owning, for example, watching the Lions game in my Tesla Y on it's screen via the YT app, while on the way to my future in-laws on Sunday.
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SpaceX boldly goes into 'huge' 5G network rollout with Qualcomm

After trying satellites and small cells, Elon Musk's SpaceX is to build a terrestrial mobile network across tens of thousands of sites with Qualcomm.
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nelson61 said:
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SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has discussed the deal personally, meeting with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to the people. The potential deal may result in SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile or SpaceX gaining access to its network, which it leases from AT&T and T-Mobile US, the people said.
Access to those lease agreements would be a coup for SpaceX. The back door would allow Musk to make a play for a U.S. wireless market that equity research firm MoffettNathanson estimates is worth $235 billion. But the proposed service may need consent from those carriers for the service to actually launch, the people said.
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If Musk really wants to buy Boost, he might get a great price once Dish Wireless is out of Chapter 11.

Boost just lost 182,000 subs in the 3rd quarter-

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Is Dish like Iran in one way...they both will totally collapse by end of week :)
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Other than the price, my experience with Boost is not that different than what I experienced with my years with Cricket. I will be curious to see what happens if SpaceX takes the reins.
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Bruce said:
Again, if so, why would he want Dish/Sling of all the providers?

He could deliver anything without actually owning, for example, watching the Lions game in my Tesla Y on it's screen via the YT app, while on the way to my future in-laws on Sunday.
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dish has new sats dtv does not
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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92AtfTLge4

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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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I loved it when Rodney was on the Tonight Show...
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dishstaller said:
Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Thanks, I wasn't sure if you had the wrong Subject or the wrong YouTube link.
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Was a Don Rickles fan. I've dvr'd most of his appearances on Carson from the antenna tv replays.

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More Dangerfield rapid fire on Carson.


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Rodney Dangerfield is great. One of his best one liners - "My wife likes to talk to me during sex, last night she called me from Florida!"

Jackie Gleason is another one of the greats.


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Last reply · posted in Movie Talk

Godzilla Minus Zero


View: https://youtu.be/n-NDYWPXpKg?si=hcI4ueMkFCreZ8Qq
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dfergie said:

View: https://youtu.be/n-NDYWPXpKg?si=hcI4ueMkFCreZ8Qq
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Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
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primestar31 said:
Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
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At theaters, only in Japanese, on Disc and Netflix, available in English.
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New trailer has dropped:
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Looks good! I'm interested...
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