Also make sure the drive your are selecting is the correct one. If you need to make a bootable device (I am assuming that is why the media creation tool was used) in the future, I would recommend using a USB drive, portable Hard-drives are usually best for backup purposes. Tech Radar has also posted their best picks for the best free 3rd party recovery software but I believe most of them will have limits for the amount of data you can recover. I would get a few quotes to see if you can get a good deal. You could choose to pay for the full version but it is probably not worth it if you are only going to use it once, so.Īnother option is to take it to a computer shop that recovers data. The MS851 ESD (Electrostatic discharger) laser scanner is a high-performance device but additional. I have had recent success using Ease US Recovery Wizard, but alas it only lets you recover a maximum of 2GB. That being said, it may only 'overwrite' some files.Ī further explanation: when files are deleted, they are marked as 'ready to be overwritten' which is then shown as free space.
Unfortunately formatting your portable hard-drive makes it very hard to recover any files, as it essentially overwrites files that were on the hard-drive. Recuva I find only works best when you have chosen to delete files, from say, your recycle bin.
