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rnbergren wrote: SSD drive went all bad and I need some stuff off of it badly.
Some people still swear by SpinRite, even with SSDs.
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SpinRite FTW! ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: SpinRite FTW!
I can't quite make up my mind about SpinRite. Steve Gibson's technical explanations make sense, and the testimonies on his Security Now podcast all sound legit enough (I have no reason to doubt his sincerity), but I've always had less than stellar luck with it almost every time I've had a need for it. I *did* have it recover data, but I've also had it stuck on a particular spot on a hard drive for a solid week without making any progress.
That being said, when people are ready to give up on a dying hard drive, it's still the first thing I recommend as there's nothing comparable out there.
Any personal experiences?
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dandy72 wrote: Steve Gibson's
dandy72 wrote: Any personal experiences?
He spoke at a computer club meeting I attended in the early 90s. He had been having some trouble adjusting to the new era of Windows (3). He always developed in Assembly, but everyone said you had to use C++. Well, he showed them and by golly he wrote a Windows (3) screen saver in Assembly! Freaking genius! It was just an exercise of course and he gave out free copies. I think I still have my copy.
I have never used SpinRite, never needed to.
The only time I needed to recover data (Pascal code and a couple of reports from college) I wrote my own recovery tool.
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I used to be in the camp that thought Steve Gibson was a quack. After listening to his podcast, it's obvious the guy's no fool.
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If your OS has gone tits-up then it might be worth trying Slax. Put it on a pen drive, run the script, and you'll have a full Linux OS that you might be able to see into the drive with. You'll also need a portable drive to move data to. 
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I've had good results recovering data from mechanical drives. First rule: don't write to the drive in any way. With the computer off, connect the drive up the way you had it and it asked to format it. Connect another drive that has enough free space to contain the entire ssd contents of it were full. Boot into Linux and use ddrescue to copy the ssd contents to an image (or disk to disk if you can). Now perform data recovery tricks on the copy. Never operate on the original except to get a copy. Read only.
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I bought a file recovery program from Seagate which managed to recover over 90% of a file that held a backup copy of my data disk. The data disk had been reformatted and I had deleted the copy file by mistake. It held hundreds of photos, many documents and other important information. I tried a number of free file recovery programs. None of them found many files at all. But the Seagate File Recovery program found most of the files.
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Can't you contact the NSA and ask them for their latest copy of your data?
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Best Answer yet. I do have a nephew who works for something like that. He won't tell me. I bet he has a copy.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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If they actually performed a service like that, then people like myself, (well if there are people like myself,) might not be so paranoid and resentful of them. Unfortunately, I believe we pay them for way more than just this kind of service, but receive nothing we value in return... not even the safety they claim to be providing us. It's just a way to take money, ideas, privacy and dignity from us.
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I recently used PhotoRec which is part of the TestDisk install (on a recent version of Ubuntu). It got everything back that I was concerned with (and then some... even a bunch of files from a previous install on the drive). The drive was NTFS formatted and the partition just vanished. It had been converted to an external drive and was fine on one plug in and the next it was inaccessible.
I was very impressed. I had to comb through thousands and thousands of files to find the ones I needed, but I believe you can give it more information to only recover specific files. If I had been more calm at the time, I would have taken more time with the parameters to get fewer files but it wasn't too bad as it splits them up into subdirectories.
TestDisk couldn't get the partition back but PhotoRec recovered what I needed.
-mark
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(If you've any reason to suspect physical failure, dup it first. ) TestDisk ( on the System Rescue Disk ) will do a good job of finding - recovering "lost" partitions; if that's the problem.
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Don't know where you live, of course but here in Phoenix there's a company called Data Doctors that has been able to scrape data off very badly damaged disks for me. Apparently they can disassemble the disk and read the platter.
There's probably a group like them in your area.
I have never given them an SSD so...?
And no, I don't work for them 
Murray
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If it's an SSD, good luck. This is one of the main reasons I haven't moved to SSD drives yet, and if/when I do, they will only be for OS and program loading, and not for data storage.
The problem is the way NAND memory works and the fact that the data doesn't stay permanently there if the drive has issues. I'm not sure if tools have improved much, but the last I've read (a couple years ago when the drives were getting popular), there wasn't a fool proof way to rebuild the file system when it get's corrupted. The data stored on a SSD isn't segmented into partitions and sectors like a normal drive, so when things get corrupted, the data is randomly stored all over the place without a way to rebuild the links (if it's there at all).
With a normal platter based drive, I've had good luck with mounting in another computer to pull data off, or using a Linux boot CD to boot to linux and mount the drive to perform data recovery. I don't think either of these methods will work for a SSD.
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Acriflavine
Now, who can tell me how it's arrived at?
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You fell on your head?
I can't even pronounce the world...My teeth broken now...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Just say: Avril Lavigne, thats how it sounds to me
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Still none the wiser.
I think you're gonna have to give the solution to us thicko's too.
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I'll start you off with Current = Ac and r is from the latin to take (recipe).
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Recipio in Latin is more like accept, not take...(not that it would help me anyway)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Still all Greek to me, no wait it isn't, but yet it is. 
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It's the imperative of recipere (to take). It's commonly abbreviated to Rx in pharmacies.
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I'm so thick I don't even know what the word means. I looked it up, but my head is still stubbornly thick. But I think its some orange color thingy.
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