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Seriously,, WHS is correct. You are going to need to learn how to use the app,,, but Testdisk is what you need. If the data exists on that drive, Testdisk will recover it.
Oh,, and yeah,, it's free.
It is not a very user friendly app. but it's not too difficult either.
It takes a while to run,, I will try to write up some quick instructions......
Off the top of my head..,,,.
Get the Testdisk and extract it to some location
Open it and find testdisk_win.exe and (just to be safe) right click and run as admin
Hit Enter to Create a log,, not important really
Use arrow keys to select the correct drive,, you will see it....
Hit enter to Proceed
Hit enter to Select Intel
Hit Enter to select Analyse
Hit Enter to select Quick Search
Select Yes or No as to the next question.
It will wither start scanning, or you will need to hit enter again.
If you can,, hit cancel,, if you get the option at the bottom to do a Deeper Search (this is the option you want) select that and hit enter...
The search is going to take a while to run, so relax and let it do it's thing.
You will need another location to copy the itmes that it does find to, as You do not want to try copying them back to the drive they are on as you are recovering them.
Testdisk is what you need. It has saved my data more than twice.
During the recovery process,, you will need to use the arrow keys and enter to move around and copy files,, just follow the on screen prompts.
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