While moving all my music onto my new hard drive I've erased some eight gigs: Recoverable?

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It was a large enough block that it asked if I wanted to permanently delete and I clicked yes without thinking.
I am a putz.
Anybody out there got any idea how to recover?
Windows XP PC, by the by.
All my Autechre is gone!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Try GetDataBack. I swear by it. I have managed to recover stuff from reformatted drives. It's free to inspect recoverable files, And if you actually want to recover the files, you have to pay for the software.

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

depending on yr OS, try RFAT studio.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

althogh mp3's ca get corrupted quite easily on recovery. you may find some mp3's consist of bits of other mp3's.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

lookin' for something free, cause I'm broke as per th' usual.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

you can't get good data recovery software for free, it's just not possible. if you're really stuck, have a look for getdataback on soulseek (hem hem). try not to put any new data on the erased hard drive in the meantime though, as doing so will decrease the amount of potential recoverables.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

althogh mp3's ca get corrupted quite easily on recovery. you may find some mp3's consist of bits of other mp3's.

No kidding. I downloaded some free data recovery software recently and thought I'd managed to recover most of what I lost, only to find it was all basically ruined. I think I would have had to recover each mp3 to it's own folder for this not to have happened.

― Bimble (bimble), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna just give up I think. Fuckin' bummer: that was all my boards of canada and autechre and lots and lots of assorted stuff that I'm gonna find I've lost only when I go looking for it.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

shit happens. aren't you glad it's free and easy to download it again?

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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