#Formated disk and need help recovering Pictures/Vids and files
pure thicket
let ti finish that but if i doesnt find anyting ou ned to stop nd turn the pc off
spice sable
and what's the next steps , I'm ready to follow in right footsteps
pure thicket
and then look u exactly what files you need to searc for in photorec
spice sable
I need pictures and videos , else doesn't matter much
pure thicket
well... not to get any hope up, but because of how long you had it powered on doing that scan finding those dovect files (which are likely not realy files but fragments now or "phantoms") your files are likely already gone
spice sable
1 more thing
pure thicket
if by some miracle you could get your original hdd back, and hte person didnt use it yet. you can recover from that
spice sable
the guy I sold SSD to , I told him that if he can , can he recover them from thhat SSD ?
pure thicket
oh ssd
spice sable
I formated that disk as well but with quick wipe
pure thicket
yeah.... no... your files are gone
never. store. on ssds
ssds are not for any kind of long term storage
pure thicket
it's why i keep telling people that buying those large ssds is wasting money
pure thicket
it's why hdd, even though they became unpopular by tech media and gamers, are still incredibly important
pure thicket
you should always have multiple back ups and on different media types if possible and in multipe locations
pure thicket
did you keep anything in cloud storage?
spice sable
some of yeah but mostly on phone storage
Recuva was able to recover these but they are corrupted sadly
some of my work
TestDisk+PhotoRec recovered this
like 10K of folders with 1000 files in each folder
that are Dovecot format
pure thicket
unless anyone of those files are large enough to look like actual files, you most likely have folders full of file fragments that is pretty much the same as encrypted files and unrecoverable
let this be a lesson about data storage
spice sable
yeah but I'm missing 5+ years of pictures/vids memories
pure thicket
never rely on a single point. always have at least 1 back up, and never leave another drive you dont intend to do anything with during an os install, in he pc when doing the os insall
wht yu need to do is get that ssd disconnectd from pwer if you ddnt already
you will need some program to try to analyse the files you did recover
and you might need another drive to write to for this process
spice sable
yeah I might just say fuck it then :/
how slim the chances are
I'm just wasting time
pure thicket
well like i said, if any of those files are large enough in size to be photos or videos, you have a chance still
spice sable
doesn't sort by size
same shit in all folders
I'll wait for this TestDisk and if this doesn't do shit I'll have to forget this
ARAARAT
AYPOO
AYOOOOOOOOOOO
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I'm not so retarded after all
I DID HAVE IT SAVED ON SD CARD
pure thicket
is it everythig though?
spice sable
it was around 30GB+
pure thicket
how many GB do all those recovery folders hold
spice sable
unplugged the shit out of that SD keeping it on my neck
fuck them folders I'm so happy
but it's ALOT
if you are asking about those recovered files