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Corrupted files, images and video

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4 days ago, i accidentally erased my external hard drive. Out of panic, i cut off the power to stop the process. After that, the drive became unreadable. I tried using a recovery software to take my data back and it worked! But... my was existing files (photos, videos, docs, etc) was corrupted and cant be opened. I tried using third party software to repair it but to no avail...


Does anyone knows how to fix this? Pls help! (That drive contains 3 years of family photos and videos)


I am on macbook pro mid 2012 running mac os mojave

MacBook Pro

Posted on May 15, 2022 9:17 AM

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Posted on May 15, 2022 11:46 AM

There is no fix.


You previously decided your data was worthless (no backups), and now you would prefer to assign your data some value.


The only way data is assigned value is through backups, or with the ability to re-generate the data.


All hardware inevitably fails, or gets lost, or stolen, or dunked, or incinerated, or damaged, or corrupted through software or firmware or hardware errors, or through accidents or malicious activities.


Without data backups, the recovery of remnants is going to be (more) expensive and (probably) incomplete.


Contact a data recovery service.


That’ll usually cost more, and may or may not recover more.


I’m going to assume the error here was further compounded by not immediately copying the corrupted storage device too, and which means the recovery service is quite possibly already starting with less data.


Most of us have learned this lesson about backups, either directly through data loss, or having seen others’ data losses.



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May 15, 2022 11:46 AM in response to Abyumy

There is no fix.


You previously decided your data was worthless (no backups), and now you would prefer to assign your data some value.


The only way data is assigned value is through backups, or with the ability to re-generate the data.


All hardware inevitably fails, or gets lost, or stolen, or dunked, or incinerated, or damaged, or corrupted through software or firmware or hardware errors, or through accidents or malicious activities.


Without data backups, the recovery of remnants is going to be (more) expensive and (probably) incomplete.


Contact a data recovery service.


That’ll usually cost more, and may or may not recover more.


I’m going to assume the error here was further compounded by not immediately copying the corrupted storage device too, and which means the recovery service is quite possibly already starting with less data.


Most of us have learned this lesson about backups, either directly through data loss, or having seen others’ data losses.



Corrupted files, images and video

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