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Recuva may help. I've had good luck with it in the past.


On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:24 PM Luis Moreira <
luis.moreira1575@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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 wit=
h
> 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 anothe=
r
> 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 fo=
r
> 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
> lost
> > > quite a bit of valuable data and files. I know what you are going to
> say,
> > > 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
> 10,
> > > so all my files are gone
> > > Looking at the time it took, it can't have formated fully the drive,
> but
> > > 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/file=
s
> > > back.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > > Best regards
> > >             Luis
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