r/Backup • u/akashiseijuro_06 • 10d ago

Question PLEASE HELP ME.

/r/AskADataRecoveryPro/comments/1x0hjct/please_help_me/
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u/Inclusive_3Dprinting 10d ago

First of all, stop mucking around with it if you don't know what you are doing.

Tell us everything, your backup method, etc.

Also, how is a single drive a backup?

Is it a platter drive? SSD? Compact flash?

  1. Make a drive IMAGE first with FTK imager

  2. If DMDE can't recover them properly, then you need a professional data recovery service.

Stop messing with the drive for now.

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u/akashiseijuro_06 10d ago

here is the info for the hdd

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u/wivaca2 5d ago

The very first thing to do when an accidental erasure or format is done is to immediately stop any processes from making additional changes to the drive. Every sector of changed data can overwrite the data or indexes you want to recover.

Remaking a new folder with the same name can further confuse matters.

Is this the OS boot drive or another that is purely for data storage? Pull it and immediate clone all sectors of the drive, not just those that are allocated, to another drive.

Your screen shot shows this is a HDD with magnetic media, so there is a better chance of recovery than if it was an SSD.

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u/wells68 10d ago

The OP quite properly posted this on r/AskADataRecoveryPro. Unfortunately, the filenames discovered by a consumer-level recovery application point to unrecoverable data. And the fact that the drive was not immediately powered off and instead was in use during amateur recovery efforts has very, very likely mangled all the files.

Also significant is that the hard drive is SMR with the TRIM function. TRIM is the norm on SSDs and makes recovery difficult or impossible if the drive is used, even a little bit, after an accidental deletion. TRIM is also a feature on some SMR HDD, as in this case, unfortunately.

So this is a reminder to all of us: Back up your files!