Cavey
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Know this was asked fairly recently, but still not prem, so can't search.
Lost my Music folder recently, rest of the drive is fine, but the Music folder is corrupt 
What should I use to recover it? Tried "Free data and file recovery" from mininova, but it's shit.
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Dom
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Get Data Back  Have used it a number of times and it usually recovers atleast 90% of the data, only issue is that it can takes a stupid amount of time. Last drive i did, 250GB, tooks nearly 15hrs 
[Edited on 28-10-2009 by Dom]
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Cavey
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Yeah, kinda posted this to get the related links and found it through that 
Downloading it now, had 60gb or so of music, it's all on my iPod, but would be a lot easier if i could just recover it instead of transferring it back across
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Brett
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Would this work on a drive that has been partially formatted?
I accidentally started to format my 250GB external drive then realised at about 20% what I was doing and pulled the plug. It was literally full of stuff. Not actually touched it since, but do need stuff off it.
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James_DT
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Should do. A standard (quick) format just removes the references to the files in the file table, rather than overwriting the bits on the drive with 0's, so it should still be easy enough to get back.
[Edited on 28-10-2009 by James_DT]
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Cavey
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Took me a while to find a keygen, but all good now, is recovering my stuff
By the look of it, it should work fine for that brett, i'll u2u the link I got in a min
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Brett
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Nice one, cheers. I shall attempt that tonight.
Not sure I just did a quick format James. Think I did a full jobbie.
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Dom
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From what i remember (been a few years since i've used it), i think there is an enhanced scan and recovery option that when i used ended up recovering data that i delete 4 years previous - but it took almost a complete day on a 80GB drive
And Cavey - Try and recover as much as possible as the tracks would have been transcoded, with a lower bitrate and to AAC (so lower quality that what you started out with), when transfered to the iPod.
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Brett
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One more thing, how does it work? Does the recovered data need to have another drive to be saved on, or will it literally "bring it back" on the same drive?
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Cavey
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By the look of it it's recovering all of them I think, so can't complain 44% at the moment and that's 23gb, so looks like it's getting all of it. Yay!
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Cavey
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You need to install it to a different drive to the one you're going to scan, and recover the data to a different drive as well
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James_DT
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quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
Nice one, cheers. I shall attempt that tonight.
Not sure I just did a quick format James. Think I did a full jobbie.
It should still be recoverable, might just take a little longer. As long as you didn't go for some mad format tool that repeatedly overwrites the bits with trash data, you should be okay.
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Brett
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quote:
Originally posted by Cavey
You need to install it to a different drive to the one you're going to scan, and recover the data to a different drive as well
Damn, might be an issue  Don't think I have 250GB free on another drive
I couldn't give a shit about most of the stuff on there. I just need a few PSD's and flash files I've done. Can you not pick and choose what you want at all or anything? Like it can list the stuff or somethin then select it?
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James_DT
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You can choose what you recover. If you didn't complete the format, there's a chance that some of it is still there anyway.
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Cavey
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You should be able to pick the stuff you want to recover by the look of it, so just choose the folders you want then copy and paste them where you want them
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Brett
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Yeehaw! Winner guys, cheers
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Cavey
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Good shit, got all my mp3s back as well
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