This is why you should always back up 3 times

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1066gull

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• Feb 9, 2016

• #1

I'm dying.

I dunno how it was even possible?

The card was inside the adapter when I discovered it. I had to pull apart said adapter to get the other half out.

 

Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005

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Goldstone

• Feb 9, 2016

• #2

Have you ever had a copy of the info on anything but that card?

 

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1066gull

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• Feb 9, 2016

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Some. But I just been busy formatting an old system and I had loads of files and videos from that Windows 7 system I'm unlikely to get back.

Forensics is my only chance but it's likely to be dead.

I've had two 32gb cards from SanDisk which are full. No problems. I than replaced this 64gb with a Toshiba 128gb recently. Thid is my in y failure. I'm now worried the bigger cards maybe abit fragile.

Three years ago I piled everything on to a 8 year old lacie hard drive, which failed. That was my own fault. I can forensically save some data though but it's so expensive and the tools ain't cheap

 

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Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005

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• Feb 9, 2016

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1066gull said:

Some. But I just been busy formatting an old system and I had loads of files and videos from that Windows 7 system I'm unlikely to get back.

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You can get files back from a formatted drive.

I've had two 32gb cards from SanDisk which are full. No problems. I than replaced this 64gb with a Toshiba 128gb recently. Thid is my in y failure. I'm now worried the bigger cards maybe abit fragile.

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It doesn't matter if they're fragile, back them up and all is good.

Three years ago I piled everything on to a 8 year old lacie hard drive, which failed. That was my own fault. I can forensically save some data though but it's so expensive and the tools ain't cheap

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I can help if you want.

 

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1066gull

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• Feb 9, 2016

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Triggaaar said:

You can get files back from a formatted drive.

It doesn't matter if they're fragile, back them up and all is good.

I can help if you want.

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If you can help me with the hard drive get all the really old photos from my school days and also school work, that would be a great help.

I've already opened the enclosure attempting it myself but I got stressed out from it. I know it mayhave corrupted some files but it's all about damage limitation. There are some photography photographs I really would like to keep and store.

I had a job trying to pull the platter off, but I think I didn't have the right tools and it appeared caught when I tried to slide it off the edge.

 

Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005

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• Feb 9, 2016

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1066gull said:

If you can help me with the hard drive get all the really old photos from my school days and also school work, that would be a great help.

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I'm happy to give it a go. I'm a photographer, and have some software for such an emergency - it's not capable of recovering everything, but we can certainly try.

The number 1 point is: do not write anything at all to the drives with the data. That can overwrite what's there, which will make things worse. I'll send you a PM.