Ask HN: How to Retrieve Lost Files?

5 points by Temporarily21 ↗ HN
All files disappeared from my HDD. What are my options?

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If HDD, remove the hard drive, image it, apply data recovery software to image

If SSD, mourn your lost data

I'm just going to point to this blog post by a reputable data recovery company that tested spinrite and found that it "fixed" a bad sector by overwriting it with irrelevant data from elsewhere.

https://www.recoveryforce.com/spinrite-a-data-recovery-progr...

>> blog post by a reputable data recovery company

Coca-Cola's review of Pepsi cola finds that it does not taste as good.

Reviewing a competitor's product == advertisement

If it's an HDD as you said, you can try a tool like recuva: https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva, and if it's not enough, if you have knowedge in linux you can try foremost which is a forensics tool, it's gonna take more time but it's way better than recuva because of the way it works.