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

[Paul Gear]

+1 to the testdisk suite - I used photorec from testdisk to recover the
majority of my photos from a disk with a very badly damaged first few
sectors.  Despite its name, photorec knows about a lot more file formats
than photos.

I usually work with photorec by taking an image copy of the entire disk
with dd - then I can do destructive things without fear of breaking it
for a data recovery specialist.

Paul

On 21/08/17 13:10, Timothy White wrote:
> ...
> 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 <mailto: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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