[H-GEN] recommend a service for restoring files from a wiped hard drive?

[Timothy White]

If you're willing to try yourself, TestDisk (
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) is the tool I normally use. You'll
normally only be able to recover files that are contiguous on the disk.
However, depending on the format of the disk, and if anything was written
to it after formatting, you can sometimes "unformat" the disk using the
extra copies of the metadata stored by some file systems.

Tim

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Nick Lawrence <n1cklawr3nc3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Hello all,
>
> Can anyone recommend a service or a shop to restore files from a wiped
> external hard drive?
>
> My girlfriend's daughter lent her external hard drive to a friend and it
> got accidentally wiped. I have asked how it happened but the answers are
> very vague. My suspicion is that it got plugged into a windows computer
> which popped up the message "there is a problem with your hard drive, do
> you want me to fix it?" and they clicked yes and the hard drive got
> re-formatted. But I do not know for sure.
>
> Anyway, just looking for an local place that can restore files. Willing to
> pay for this to happen.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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