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Yesterday my external hard drive decided to take a shit on me and I'm currently in a frantic battle with it trying to recover a ton of lost files. I only managed to get a way with a few snippets in .txt's. I have lost all of my modules, projects, movies, music, saves, and some really important other important things.

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tl;dr: Hard drive crashed, frantic battle, trying to save files, fighting losing battle, real life problems.


What are some free programs that let you recover a hard drive from RAW file type or a method? I don't want to re-format it and I've tried a few things. I want to keep all my files and information if possible. If I can't I'm down 300GB of files.