Thanks recuperation.
I noticed about ddrescue last night and played around with it and after 2 hours of it running, nothing had been created and had lots of read errors, which is when I called time on it and go for the professional route before it is too late. Drive was 256GB, but yeah 2000+ hours ...
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- 07 May 2021, 14:50
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: Photorec keeps recovering the same files
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- 07 May 2021, 13:07
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: Photorec keeps recovering the same files
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Re: Photorec keeps recovering the same files
Just to update this, I tired with 7.2 and the pass 0 had run for 10 hours and still had 2000+hrs to go, so stopped this and made a call to a data recovery company for them to retrieve the data. Time isn't on my side as I need to recover my wife's coursework sooner rather than later.
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- 06 May 2021, 10:46
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: Photorec keeps recovering the same files
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9054
Re: Photorec keeps recovering the same files
Haven't tried 7.2, but can give it a go and report back

- 06 May 2021, 10:42
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: Photorec keeps recovering the same files
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Re: Photorec keeps recovering the same files
Using 7.1 and using the commandline to do the recovery
- 06 May 2021, 08:50
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: Photorec keeps recovering the same files
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9054
Photorec keeps recovering the same files
Hi All,
Firstly, great piece of software for recovery of files, seems to be one of the better ones I have tried in the past few days :D
My problem is my SSD in the laptop died. Was using the laptop as normal and then everything froze, nothing would work so power cycled it, which then resulted in ...
Firstly, great piece of software for recovery of files, seems to be one of the better ones I have tried in the past few days :D
My problem is my SSD in the laptop died. Was using the laptop as normal and then everything froze, nothing would work so power cycled it, which then resulted in ...