- Nov 8, 2015
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I was in the process of migrating my data from my old HDD to my new SSD but decided to reinstall Windows 10 halfway through after the registry on the SSD got <mod edit>. Windows 10 got reinstalled on the wrong drive, i.e. the HDD instead of the SSD. Along my journey, I also lost the data on my USB backup.
Here's the situation now: I have lost a lot of data, but not all of it. I managed to get about 1/2 my stuff - documents, work-related files, etc. - onto the SSD before I decided to reinstall, but the other 1/2 was still on the HDD that got wiped. At this point, all I really want to get back are my pictures and some bits of music I wrote. This would be a fair amount of data - something on the order of 30GB or so.
The HDD is 1TB, GPT NTFS, which is totally blank apart from the 25GB of reinstalled Windows 10. It has been quick formatted once. I think I can get the data I'm missing from there somehow.
I have tried the following pieces of recovery software - I'll just add that, obviously, I'm running these after booting from the SSD:
* Recuva. I ran a deep scan and it got to about 20% complete in a few hours. I left it for a full day after that and it got to 29%. It had found something like 11 million files at this point and was using so much memory that my whole PC was basically inoperable. It was also predicting that the scan would last about five days. I cancelled it then. It showed me some results, but almost none of the files were actually salvageable. Roughly 5% could be previewed.
* EaseUS Data Recovery. The deep scan completes in about half a day. However, it finds 44 million files for a total of 26TB of data on a 1TB HDD that was only half full to begin with, because it's finding a few dozen copies of each and every file. It's recovered the folder and file tree near-perfectly, but, again, almost none of the actual files are salvageable. About 5% could be previewed or opened after recovery.
I'm getting pretty desperate. I've been trying to get my data out for about a week now. I would really appreciate any help you guys could give me. e.g. I've heard that "GetDataBack" allows you to recover a whole partition in one fell swoop. Is this true?
<Let's be watching our language in these forums>
Here's the situation now: I have lost a lot of data, but not all of it. I managed to get about 1/2 my stuff - documents, work-related files, etc. - onto the SSD before I decided to reinstall, but the other 1/2 was still on the HDD that got wiped. At this point, all I really want to get back are my pictures and some bits of music I wrote. This would be a fair amount of data - something on the order of 30GB or so.
The HDD is 1TB, GPT NTFS, which is totally blank apart from the 25GB of reinstalled Windows 10. It has been quick formatted once. I think I can get the data I'm missing from there somehow.
I have tried the following pieces of recovery software - I'll just add that, obviously, I'm running these after booting from the SSD:
* Recuva. I ran a deep scan and it got to about 20% complete in a few hours. I left it for a full day after that and it got to 29%. It had found something like 11 million files at this point and was using so much memory that my whole PC was basically inoperable. It was also predicting that the scan would last about five days. I cancelled it then. It showed me some results, but almost none of the files were actually salvageable. Roughly 5% could be previewed.
* EaseUS Data Recovery. The deep scan completes in about half a day. However, it finds 44 million files for a total of 26TB of data on a 1TB HDD that was only half full to begin with, because it's finding a few dozen copies of each and every file. It's recovered the folder and file tree near-perfectly, but, again, almost none of the actual files are salvageable. About 5% could be previewed or opened after recovery.
I'm getting pretty desperate. I've been trying to get my data out for about a week now. I would really appreciate any help you guys could give me. e.g. I've heard that "GetDataBack" allows you to recover a whole partition in one fell swoop. Is this true?
<Let's be watching our language in these forums>
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