From: Luis Moreira <luis.moreira1575@googlemail.com>
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A bit more info on this issue, this is a HP laptop with that sure start
thing and a ssd. I think the drive never had an issue, it all started with
an issue with the wireless card. I restarted the laptop as normally this
always gets it working fine, and that's when it got stuck on the
splash screen for HP Sure start. I left it for about 3 hours trying to
restart but after that I stopped it and restarted it again. That got it
stuck on the repairing the pc splash screen which I left it on for another
4 hours and still nothing so I got into the startup menu and got into the
recover option, which really meant restore windows 10.
And that's it, I have now a newly formated drive with the laptop ready for
initial setup and may files gone!

I just want to gauge how likely it is that I can get my files back and if
there's any tools I can suggest to the IT guy.

Thank you.
Best Regards
            Luis

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, 19:41 Denny Esterline, <desterline@gmail.com> wrote:

> Recent discussion on Hack-a-day about data recovery.
>
>
> https://hackaday.com/2020/07/14/tales-from-the-sysadmin-impending-hard-dr=
ive-doom/
>
>
> The comment section might contain some nuggets worth digging for.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:06 AM Luis Moreira <
> luis.moreira1575@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > Looking for some info and experiences you may have had in the past.
> >
> > My company issued Laptop, just failed on Startup yesterday and I've los=
t
> > quite a bit of valuable data and files. I know what you are going to sa=
y,
> > no Backup? No I'm afraid not, as my IT department will not supply it,
> since
> > we are all suppose to work on the network not on our C: drive! Anyway, =
I
> > should have had setup some manual backup strategy.
> > So here we are. I couldn't recover the laptop after startup so I done
> > recovery, but what that actually meant was a clean install of windows 1=
0,
> > so all my files are gone
> > Looking at the time it took, it can't have formated fully the drive, bu=
t
> > the IT department after several scans can not find any data.
> >
> > What I'm looking for, is some advice, software/service that you have
> > experience with, that could help me get at least some of my data/files
> > back.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Best regards
> >             Luis
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