He declined so they sent him the disk back still broken. Recently a guy I used to work with sent a Sata disk to a company who said they had found 2GB of photos and they sent him a weblink to look at them - they then wanted £250 to provide him with the files.

You would need to contact one of these places for a quote and there is no guarantee they will be able to help. You should stop using and writing to that as well to preserve the best possibility there. With a situation like this, it will really depend on if the data is overwritten or not.Īlso, you do have a second shot here with the drive that the videos were on originally (and deleted). If you are uncomfortable with doing this yourself or want the safest and best chance of recovery, then a professional recovery service should be an option.

Use the slider to choose how many times to write over the data on the disk, then click OK.ĭata recovery software is definitely a possibility, but don't write any more to this drive to prevent the chance of overwrite. Enter a name for the disk or partition, then click Security Options. Is this what was used? Opens a new window Opens a new window I have to ask how was the drive formatted? Was it a method that just does a quick erase or does it actually overwrite the areas in question?

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