Help needed, I screwed up HDD recovery/cloning

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Supervanillaice

Supervanillaice

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So my dad recently bought a new ssd for his work laptop, he knows that I'm fairly tech savy so he gave it to me to clone his old data over to the new ssd. I've done this before, quite a few times with Samsung 850 evos using their 'Magician' software. My dad favouring price per gb over performance went with a crucial drive so i decided to use crucial's proprietary software.

I do the transfer as usual but either nothing happened or I tried to clone the files of the empty ssd to the hdd.
So I can't find working images for either drive, I plug the drive back into my dad's laptop because I'm confused af, apparently the drive is encrypted so I can't actually boot it up.

I've tried EaseUS and Recuva but neither find the files
I'm lost at my wits here, there is a recovery partition but that's part of the encryption to so I can't get that to run without a recovery code.

I'm lost in deep waters here guys, please someone xx
 
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Boogieman_WD
Hey there.

I'm not familiar with the software you've used so I don't know if it would let you clone a unpartitioned let alone uninitialized drive, but if that happened, most likely the files are as good gone. :(
If you need to recover data from that drive (personal data, like documents, photos, etc.) you could try out a data recovery company. Unfortunately since you've mentioned encryption, I can't really help with that.

If the only thing you're after is the recovery partition, perhaps getting a copy of Windows and performing a clean install will be a good idea. After that you should be able to find all necessary drivers for that laptop model on its manufacturer's website.

Hope that helps.
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Hey there.

I'm not familiar with the software you've used so I don't know if it would let you clone a unpartitioned let alone uninitialized drive, but if that happened, most likely the files are as good gone. :(
If you need to recover data from that drive (personal data, like documents, photos, etc.) you could try out a data recovery company. Unfortunately since you've mentioned encryption, I can't really help with that.

If the only thing you're after is the recovery partition, perhaps getting a copy of Windows and performing a clean install will be a good idea. After that you should be able to find all necessary drivers for that laptop model on its manufacturer's website.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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