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I told you next Wednesday that won't work!
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Until next wednesday, I can expose this information and share it with everyone. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I don't know what kind of tools it will take, but it can be done. I lost a disk and paid some hack to put it in his 'system'... in his garage. Three days later he recovered everything except the OS installation (the reason it couldn't boot). We agreed to $200 for it (before he started)... it probably should have cost more considering the time it took. I gave him a very big tip after I verified everything was there.
This was after "Geek Squad" failed to diagnose anything... even claiming it was dead when I knew I could get it to spin up and read when slaved... I just couldn't recover enough info to determine file locations on the disk.
Oh, and the critical nature of the files on the disk... my wife hadn't backed up her pictures... 
So now I bought her a $5 thumb drive... everything goes from the camera, to the computer, to the usb. And she never overwrites a picture on the camera disk (always get a new one)... that should do it... no more freaking out over pictures... triply backed up.
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So you don't use a cloud service for your photos?
That's the safest solution for your pictures -- once the cloud service is hacked, you can retrieve accidentally-deleted pictures from any torrent site.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: So you don't use a cloud service for your photos?
I was getting ready to take you serious and explain several reasons why not!
Mark_Wallace wrote: That's the safest solution for your pictures -- once the cloud service is hacked, you can retrieve accidentally-deleted pictures from any torrent site.
And then I had a laugh 
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99.9% of photos I have are of interest only to me and the family, why should I care if they are hacked. The .1% would not be backed up to the cloud!.
I just bought in to the Office 365 eco system, PC died, so I get 1tb on MS servers, all my music and pictures are now backed up to the cloud. Not sure what to do about the documents I don't want out there!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Um... Ask your little brother if he detects any sardonicism in my posting.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Digital photos contain GIS information. If you give me enough photos, I can track your behavior, even without your social media posts...
It kind of opens up the door for being victimized. I have no idea, or trust for the cloud to strip this out. In fact, I bet they consume it as meta data for advertising. And even without that information, some people who are closer to me could figure out the same info just from viewing the picture.
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Pualee wrote: I bet they consume it as meta data for advertising
Yah so I can expect a flood of travel adds and how to annoy your grand kids. I already get more travel crap than I can handle and while I am quite proficient at annoying the little terrors, new ideas are always needed.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Wow $200, I did the same job for $50, still it was for a friend. Turns out linux could read the
drive that windows couldn't. I recovered all but a handful of his wife's photos.
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rnbergren wrote: SSD drive went all bad and I need some stuff off of it badly.
No back up? Bummer. Sometimes you can get SSDs to work for a short time after powering them off and restrarting, I don't know if you've done this already. I wish you luck.
Your sig has become very apropos. Good luck.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Ouch! That doesn't sound like anything that can be saved, though if you have any friends at NSA you might have some luck there. A regular hard drive can often be recovered because the magnetic domains persist, even if the drive electronics go south. But an SSD is, by definition, a solid state, integrated device. There's no disk you can remove and remount. Good luck with it, and please post the results. There are bound to be other here who want to know how to do this. [note to self - do backup tonight]
Will Rogers never met me.
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I have usually 2-3 backups of everything. But I am looking for one file that I seem to have saved somewhere else on this old computer. Probably didn't but who knows. Already I have spent more time than this whole thing is worth in the end.
oh well.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: SSD drive
Eek.
Be prepared for the worst. An HDD has physical magnetic discs that can be read, even if there's damage. An SSD is essentially a memory card, so there's nothing physical to recover data from.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, like the spinning HD, SSDs have controllers that can be replaced with the right technology. Just because there's no rust, doesn't mean "there's nothing physical to recover data from."
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Define "went all bad".
Is the filesystem corrupt, or is it a brick?
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basically a brick. Except when I attach it to an adaptor and hook up to another computer it recognizes the harddrive and then asks if I want to format it?
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: basically a brick. Except when I attach it to an adaptor and hook up to another computer it recognizes the harddrive and then asks if I want to format it?
To me this sounds exactly like the issue I've had a couple of times with customers HDD and USB HDD.
I have used Parted Magic[^] to boot from USB and then loosely used the instructions found here[^] to recover.
I have found most of the time that the HDD is faarrrkkkked enough that rewriting the partition information didn't work for me. So at the point of searching or looking at files (P I think is the magic key) I find the directory(ies) I need and then copy to another disk.
Hope this helps.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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There's not much you can do with a fried SSD. I'd recommend a SATA-USB, but it sounds like you've already done that.
Put it in a Linux machine and see if you can use dd to do a surface copy into a file on another drive. Then try and see what can be done with that. You might be lucky and find that the only problem is that some early sectors got overwritten, like maybe the partition table. However, if its from a recent 8.1 windows machine (one that came with 8.1 preinstalled), then the data is encrypted and you're SOL even if you can read it off the drive from another computer, so there's no point wasting your time.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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rnbergren wrote: off of it badly
Then any tool should suffice?
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A hammer's a tool. It is, it is. A hammer is really a tool. Maybe I'm a tool... 
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Try sealing it in a plastic bag then toss it in the freezer overnight.
Worth a shot.
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Tried this but..........
I always have uncertainty on the kilogram settings on the microwave defrost cycle settings.
It seems to come to life when it dances across the platter with sparks and stuff.
How can you tell if the HDD is over or under cooked?
This method has never worked for me.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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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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