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• BA

  @BazzFreeman · 1 year ago

  Also a mantra to live by: You don't have a backup unless you can restore it. ALWAYS test your backups. 20 years as a Database admin.

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• LE

  @lertsek101 · 1 year ago

  One addition:<br>When recovering data from a partially corrupt drive NEVER recover to uncorrupted parts of the same drive as you might overwrite the very data that you are trying to recover.

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• C.

  @c.o.r.e.y.w · 1 year ago

  I make sure to always use 3-2-1 backups. Three copies of my data, in two folders, on my one computer.

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• NU

  @NumptyMcNumptyface · 1 year ago

  There are two types of people - those who back up their important files, and those who will learn to back up their important files.

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• JA

  @Jagosix · 1 year ago

  I can&apos;t stress enough how important to KEEP A CURRENT BACKUP OF EVERYTHING that&apos;s important to you or your company. <br>NOTHING BEATS A GOOD BACKUP.

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• NA

  @NateEngle · 1 year ago

  Back in the 90s a PhD student walked into my office with a 3.5&quot; floppy disk and asked &quot;Is this going to be Ok if I leave it in my car in long term parking at the airport?&quot; <br><br>&quot;I dunno&quot;, I said, &quot;What&apos;s on it?&quot;<br><br>&quot;Oh it&apos;s my dissertation.&quot;<br><br>Yes it was the one copy representing years of her life and many thousands of dollars of tuition. We immediately made several backups of it, and I hope she&apos;s doing well whereever she ended up. Recovery tools are cool but there&apos;s never been any smart substitute for backups.

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• TI

  @Tinman598 · 1 year ago

  I am a contractor for several companies. &nbsp;Several years ago, one of them calls and says that their onsite server died. &nbsp;They were able to restore the base system, but their entire sales and customer database was gone. &nbsp;I asked about backups, and he hands me an old hard drive, and says “here is the backup, but we can’t restore it”. &nbsp;I did some digging and found that they had backed up multiple copies of the software that they were using, but no actual data. &nbsp;10 years and no one checked to make sure backups were restorable. &nbsp;It almost put them out of business.

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• NI

  @Ninge · 1 year ago

  A few things to note.<br><br>Don&apos;t power on the drive until you&apos;re ready to attempt to recover. <br><br>Don&apos;t save data that you want to recover on the same drive. That should be obvious. EVEN if that part of the drive has no issues.<br><br>If using tools that don&apos;t have a read-only mode, there&apos;s a chance to overwrite said file or files you want.

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• LE

  @LeonWoodward · 10 months ago

  Jay this software saved me hours. While installing a 4 drive raid. I forgot to unplug my 10TB bkup drive, and deleted its partition. Music , movies photos etc gone. 20 hours later over 38000 files recovered. &nbsp; Cheers

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• KR

  @Kris__dk · 1 year ago

  Used Recuva multiple times many years ago, but it&apos;s always entertaining seeing Jay catching up with some software he doesn&apos;t know, even though it&apos;s mind boggling he&apos;s never had a need for it before.

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• CR

  @cracklingice · 1 year ago

  Jay - that drive looks to be an Intel H10. &nbsp;One of those Optane cached drives. &nbsp;It would explain why things look so funky. &nbsp;It would also explain why some of the files cannot be recovered as they are not on the optane but the NAND. &nbsp;If you can get your hands on another of the same model laptop for cheap - I would try putting the drive in it and see what happens. &nbsp;With any luck you didn&apos;t end up ruining the file permissions and it just boots.

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• JS

  @jscanlan22 · 1 year ago

  Had a friend who was an award-winning photographer. He called and asked me to come over for a minor issue he was having with his computer. It was minor and easily sorted, but then he said his WD 500k external was &quot;acting up&quot;. &nbsp; This is in the era of spinning drives, and it was going &quot;click, click&quot;, &nbsp; I said this was not good and took it home, stripped it out of its case, and connected it to my system. &nbsp;I &nbsp;was able to connect and read. &nbsp;So, it had been a long day, and my first thought was, &quot;The drive is ok,&quot; and it was the WD case hardware that was causing the trouble. &nbsp;Then I thought I can finish this up in the morning. &nbsp;I had a lucky second thought, &quot;Maybe I should just justcopy off all his images and get it done&quot;. &nbsp;I never got that drive to work again. &nbsp;Lesson learned &quot;SAVE IT NOW! &quot;

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