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So tried a couple of data recovery tool recommended by folks here in my last thread.
GetDataback showed a bunch of files and folders as it was canning, but then said "No files found" when it completed 
I then tried R-Studio. That found only a few files. Recovering them produces some strange files that I've never seen before.
Finally I just got don running Eassos Recovery. I said it found 1543 files. That looked promising. So I paid the $0 for a license and restored them.. None of the files ever belonged to me. In a folder called "Document Files" it produced 92 PDF files. All of them are various language manuals for "My Book Essential" - the old external hard drive enclosure that went bad.
It also produced 1028 video files. None will play. No idea what they are.
In all, nothing it produced is even close to the data I had on that HD before
So at this point I'm out $40 AND all my data.
I'm open to any other recovery options. I may try bringing the drive to a pro but they'll probably just use the same tools I had.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Another one UFS Explorer Professional Recovery (version 5, 64 bit)
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Did you try to recover files using deleted files option with GetDataBack?
In order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
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No. .I'll give it a try
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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If you didn't lost partitions (partition table), that's the option I would use. Otherwise if you lost partition table and/or MFT (or MFT copy) there's only a small chance you'll recover things. Some recovery software can recover some well known formats from raw data, but they can't be fragmented. Also this type of software will recover false positives (for example it will find PNG header and it will think that PNG image follows, but it could be just random data). So you usually just recover one sector sized (very small) files that can't be fragmented. I hope you still have your PT/MFT.
In order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
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Best of luck man. Losing data like that is rough.
Jeremy Falcon
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Probably not a lot of help, but I had some success recovering jpegs from a corrupt memory stick. It was only 4 GB. IIRC, you don't say how big you hard drive is. I used Linux.
First, I made a copy of the drive using dd and ddrescue, then worked on the copy. If your drive is large, this may not be practical.
I found a program via Google, it was written just to recover jpegs and was in Haskell. We recovered about 100 MB of jpegs. Alas, not the 2 he wanted. A store who advertises recovery of data from bad drives did no better.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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Forget all those windows rescue programs, they are severely hobbled by windows.
Use System Rescue CD or Hiren's Boot CD (which can both be booted from a USB stick)
they are linux - so using direct access they can do a lot more with the disk than windows can (doesn't rely on the windows folder structure being correct to find files, it can find orphaned folders/files/blocks.)
Yes it does mean you need to enter obscure linux commands similar to "mount /dev/sd0a /mnt/dos" and suchlike - there's plenty of instructions out there, it will take time, but the results are well worth it.
I've used these at client sites, and usually the final count of files lost/not recovered can be counted on 1 hand - even when were are some pretty severe bad blocks.
Never found any windows rescue software that even came close to the abilities of these - but it's not their fault, it's because the windows OS/calls just wont let them have the low-level access to access disks where the expected windows structure is broken.
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Are steak puns rarely well done?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Who did you sirloin that from?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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obscure statement like that, probably from a medium
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Good mediums are rare.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I hear there's a good one at the Porter House.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Oi! that looks like spam
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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I was looking to Skirt the spam rules.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Well thanks, I Chuck it up to lots of practice.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If they aren't, you can always chuck them.
If it happens too often, you might try grilling the chef rather than the steak.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Curd you elaborate? Bean that I don't eat that stuff I have nothing to soy on the subject
(It's quite salad to think about)
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Would you work for a BitCoin Salary?
Think about it, both sides of the transaction are anonymous. So you would keep your whole earned paycheck, nothing taken out for taxes.
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Yes, I would. And then convert half of it to normal cash because that's what is accepted here.
You'd still have to pay taxes, and they could simply ask the employer how much he/she is paying. As for being anonymous; you're part of a public blockchain.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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littleGreenDude wrote: nothing taken out for taxes.
Just like a cash business. You'd have to declare your earnings for tax purposes.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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