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Strangely, doing some testing with a good disk. minitool seems to be recovering some full size (slightly corrupted) jpg files where photorec only recovers the thumbnail. In a strange turn of events, photorec can recover way more thumbnails that minitool. Does photorec have any more advanced recovery settings further than bruteforce to try and get the whole file instead of the internal thumbnail?

Bloody hell, it suddenly sprang to life and minitool has a whole drive of contents to recover. Im impressed. Now its up to the user if she wants to recover "just" 1Gb for free or pay for the full recovery!

Trying it now, been sat at zero % for quite some time. Think the drive is dead. Even ubuntu couldnt mount it.

Photorec sees the drive but recovers nothing

So in the latter scenario, did you fix it? Am I SOL?

Its almost like the platters have been scratched, it can read anything before it and I assume after and the failed bit is the partition data for the failed one. Going to try a photorec recovery and just hope for the best!

Not encrypted, its a personal laptop. Im forcing a disk check at present to see if I can get anywhere with that. Getdataback just hangs when processing the drive/partition data. Will give photorec a go once this finishes.

I have the HDD from a staff laptop that is sort of dead. It has smart errors and generally isnt healthy, however its working, to a fashion. I can access the recovery partition, view contents etc fine however the main partition shows its drive letter and not much else. I've attempted to fix the MBR, which now shows the partitions capacity but I still cant get it to do anything else. Can a hardware failure destroy a partition but still work? TIA

I have a single machine out of a handful with specific folder redirection for their desktops that redirects to a folder in their user share. All working fine bar one. If you navigate to the machines file explorer and click on the "desktop" library icon it shows the redirected folder as expected, however the physical desktop itself is being redirected to a different location. The same folder in the users area but via a DFS link. DFS is implemented but not set for these specific handful of users. If I RSOP its showing the correct folder redirection settings being applied (non dfs). So, the question is, where has this machine found a dfs link to redirect to and how can I stop it? If you right click on the desktop folder and select properties its location is shown as the DFS but there are no "move" buttons that would normally be expected. Anyone got any ideas?

Hi all Im upgrading my home network and would like some pointers on the best way to structure it. Here is how I envisage it - VM Super Hub 3 (Modem Mode) | Edge Router Lite | 24 port switch ( 5x CCTV / Server / Misc / AP) | 8 port switch | AP + Misc Would you split any of the bits off? CCTV etc?

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly My dad is a big fan but I had never watched it. Was on a bit late for me so I fell asleep 2/3 in. What I saw I enjoyed even if its a tad dated by today's standards.

Perhaps it was "edgy" in its day? (If you consider racial and homophobic slurs edgy) Spaceballs et al were much better.

Blazing Saddles (again) I'm a fan of Mel Brookes/Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor but this is one of those films where I just dont get the hype for it most people do.

There goes my commission then

We originally used GoGuardian https://goguardian.com who I pestered @Haptic to become re-sellers. We have since moved to Impero which offers a very similar solution, we moved to amalgamate our services into one.