floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoWe just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSDwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnews@radiation.party
arrow-up1163arrow-down1external-linkWe just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSDwww.theverge.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square86fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnews@radiation.party
minus-squareJordan Lund@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoIn case anyone is in a similar situation, I can’t say enough good things about PhotoRec. It saved my ass more than once from hard drive recovery down to SD cards. https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Yeah, yeah, it’s command line only, but once you get your stuff back it’s worth learning!
minus-squaredeliux@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoAnd it is not only command line. PhotoRec has a gui, only testdisk doesn’t
minus-squarelol3droflxp@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI second this. I luckily never needed it myself but I saved the stuff of a few people over the years and it’s not one of those annoying „free“ apps.
In case anyone is in a similar situation, I can’t say enough good things about PhotoRec. It saved my ass more than once from hard drive recovery down to SD cards.
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Yeah, yeah, it’s command line only, but once you get your stuff back it’s worth learning!
And it is not only command line. PhotoRec has a gui, only testdisk doesn’t
I second this. I luckily never needed it myself but I saved the stuff of a few people over the years and it’s not one of those annoying „free“ apps.