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Contro:
I have an external seagate hard disk of  2 TB

Some days ago the unit don't go well and was not possible to read data.
I have used several utilities to check the disk with no errors and considerable usage of time.

I decided to format the unit and recover data after that

Now I can access the unit.

What are the best tools for this purpose ?

I remember testdisk and photorec to recover photos or images from flash drives.


Best Regards

Please only tested programs you have use in the past with good results.
I need the program to run under windows 8.1 or windows 7

tomos:
Recuva is good in my experience for image/video files:
haven't tried it with other file formats.

Contro:
Recuva is good in my experience for image/video files:
haven't tried it with other file formats.
-tomos (October 11, 2016, 04:11 AM)
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I tried photorec for images too.
The disk to recover is a data disk.
Most of the content are multimedia files. But include some pdf, docx, etc.
 :-*

tomos:
If the disk is not working well though, what you want is to be able to copy the contents as quickly as possible.
I'm not sure that these recovery programmes are a good idea if the disk is in poor condition:

would creating a sector by sector image of the whole drive be a good idea first ?
Then you can mess around all you like with different recovery programmes, if the HD dies, you have a copy.

Disclaimer: I have not made a sector by sector image of a drive. I think it should have everything on it though (see if other people confirm that).

4wd:
would creating a sector by sector image of the whole drive be a good idea first ?
Then you can mess around all you like with different recovery programmes, if the HD dies, you have a copy.-tomos (October 11, 2016, 05:14 AM)
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If you make a sector level copy you don't need the original HDD to recover from, just mount the image (or plug in the HDD you made the clone to) and perform the recovery on that - no need to stress the original HDD any further.

Try Recuva first, if it can't see them then try PhotoRec which is probably the best freeware data recovery tool out there atm - PhotoRec is not restricted to just images.

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