by Data-Medics » Thu May 03, 2018 9:04 am
Guest wrote: Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:23 pm
Thank you but Is there anything I can try locally as I would like to exhaust all of my options? The file is important but not so much so that I would want to send it to a professional.
The more you attempt to "exhaust all your options" the more you're going to exhaust any possibility of ever getting your data back. I work in professional data recovery and we constantly see the correlation between the amount of amateur efforts to recover the data and the likelihood that it's permanently lost.
As ALT mentioned, try to clone the drive. If it's hitting errors or refuses to clone, you've got a hardware issue and need to see a professional service (and by professional service I'm not talking about a place that does iPhone screen replacements and virus removals, I'm talking about a real data recovery laboratory).
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Thank you but Is there anything I can try locally as I would like to exhaust all of my options? The file is important but not so much so that I would want to send it to a professional.
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The more you attempt to "exhaust all your options" the more you're going to exhaust any possibility of ever getting your data back. I work in professional data recovery and we constantly see the correlation between the amount of amateur efforts to recover the data and the likelihood that it's permanently lost.
As ALT mentioned, try to clone the drive. If it's hitting errors or refuses to clone, you've got a hardware issue and need to see a professional service (and by professional service I'm not talking about a place that does iPhone screen replacements and virus removals, I'm talking about a real data recovery laboratory).