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Recovering data from a corrupted external HDD (Solved)

N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,520
edited July 2022 in The Commons

A friend of mine has a corrupted external Hard Drive. I know recovery programs exist, but I don't know how to advise him on this.

Could anyone recommend a recovery program that's free, or cheap, please? (I have a feeling that he is going to prefer the "free" option).

 

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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,280

    If he is on a Mac, Disk Utility works. Not sure of the embedded Windows version, but there is one in Utilities I believe.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,344

    The question would probably be what kind of corruption? Theya re not tools i have ever used, but I think many of the good ones will have a free version that will at least preview what they say they can recover - you have to pay to actually do the recovery.

  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 1,982

    I couldn't get anything to work for my corrupted Macbook Pro drive except taking it to a professional and it cost like 300 bucks on top of the cost of a new hard drive. 

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,173

    If the drive failed mechanically, rather than being corrupted, it may be possible to order a replacement part for it for a small fraction of the price of performing data recovery.

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,520
    edited July 2022

    EDIT: It's linked to a Windows machine.

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  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,520

    Gee... Thanks for the help. I redirected my friend to the EaseUS site. I don't know if it's worked. He hasn't told me if it's worked. I'll just have to assume that it has.

  • ed3Ded3D Posts: 2,276

    _  all in all an interesting subject  _  

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