From: Luis Moreira <luis.moreira1575@googlemail.com>
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Hi David,
Do you think this would work on a working formated disk?
Thank you.
Best Regards
           Luis

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, 21:30 David VanHorn, <microbrix@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> with
> > an issue with the wireless card. I restarted the laptop as normally thi=
s
> > 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 t=
he
> > 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
> > lost
> > > > quite a bit of valuable data and files. I know what you are going t=
o
> > say,
> > > > no Backup? No I'm afraid not, as my IT department will not supply i=
t,
> > > 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 do=
ne
> > > > recovery, but what that actually meant was a clean install of windo=
ws
> > 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 hav=
e
> > > > experience with, that could help me get at least some of my
> data/files
> > > > back.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > > > Best regards
> > > >             Luis
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