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Have you followed these specific instructions? TestDisk Step By Step - CGSecurity
There's also a help forum. cgsecurity.org - Index page
Have you followed these specific instructions? TestDisk Step By Step - CGSecurity
There's also a help forum. cgsecurity.org - Index page
"...R-Studio - albeit incredibly powerful and a really good application - is only a demo for me. It's $80 for the full version..."
As powerful as R-Studio is, Network version or not network version, if the license covers more than one computer, -- that will be the best $80.00 you ever spent. And, I think you can even still get a free copy of R-Undelete, Recuva-type program on steroids. R-Undelete, if you do spend money on R-Studio, and you do get a free copy, can be installed -- after you have solved the immediate situation.
F22Simpilot mentioned a very powerful, geeky, program: TestDisk Step By Step - CGSecurity
It has great reviews.
There are free datarecovery programs available. Recuva is one. Or try active@ filerecovery. If it finds your data, the license is $29
As others have pointed out, there are many very good free and fee data recovery programs, many are cheaper than R-Studio and R-Undelete combined. Choose what you believe is best for you and your hardware, and let us know how things worked out.
That looks more like a backup software without a focus on recovery from messed up partitions. Are you sure it does work for such specific file recovery like this?
I have, in fact. The wiki has me quite confused near the end as I can't preview any files from the partitions that look familiar. As you can see in my previous post's screenshots, they show up as empty.
Not to sound too tight on money, but I'd prefer to try my real best with TestDisk before spending a whole $80 on R-Studio. I don't know if it's worth it if TestDisk can do the same but I just need to learn...
I've used Recuva in the past (Quite long ago - in internet terms - sometime in 2016. I don't know if it's changed in a major way since), but I didn't like it because it didn't do well at organising results and with recovering file structures. Active@ File Recovery seems like I could look into it though...
I'm honestly in a state of confusion with so many of these different softwares on the market. (I also most likely am nervous about trusting near-random software to write to this disk, for fear of putting the files on it in danger)
Thank you all so far for the help, though!
Last edited by Toydotgam; 15 Mar 2021 at 02:07. Reason: Typos.
R-Studio, especially the Network one, fully licensed, is used by many businesses, companies, agencies, etc. When it comes to data recovery, it is one of the finest, albeit with a learning curve. I was going to post a precis directory report of the R-Studio directories, my Directory Report utility needs to be reActivated, go figure.