Corrupted beyond repair and damaged files
I want to restore my scores, back into what they were before I formatted my flash drive. Some of them are broken beyond repair, I really don't know what to do. I don't want all these scores that I put hard work into gone forever. Yes, I know I asked this two months ago, but I don't want these to be gone.
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I really don't know what to do.
Use this unfortunate incident as inspiration for a brand new composition.
In that previous thread I advised you to retrieve previous versions from OneDrive. Did you ever try that? If so, how far did you get? It unfortunately might be too late now; I'm not sure how long they keep older versions around, but it's still by far your best option. But a visit to the OneDrive website and following the instructions there would be your starting point.
If you had scores on your flash drive and formated that drive, these scores are lost, period, end of story.
Unless you had backups of them elsewhere.
I guess you refer to https://musescore.org/en/node/321535, right?
In reply to If you had scores on your… by Jojo-Schmitz
From that link:
I had accidentally formatted my hard drive, which in turn, deleted EVERYTHING of my Flash drive.
If the hard drive (e.g., the C: drive) was formatted -- goodbye data.
-AND-
If everything was deleted from the flash drive -- goodbye data.
Without some cloud or other backup -- goodbye data.
(Though special recovery software may have some use here.)
In reply to From that link: I had… by Jm6stringer
(He used "Disk Drill")
There are also some specialized companies that offer data recovry. At a pretty hefty premium...
In reply to There are also some… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ha!!
I used a real drill on a hard drive -- found some awesome magnets inside!
:-)
In reply to Ha!! I used a real drill on… by Jm6stringer
That's what I do before binning a hard drive
In reply to That's what I do before… by Jojo-Schmitz
Best practise.
In reply to From that link: I had… by Jm6stringer
I did use Disk Drill, because I thought it would work. It sorta helped cause I was able to get my scores back and put them into Lost3 on my Windows
In reply to I used Disk Drill, which… by hotdave8998197
You could try changing the file extension from .mscz to .zip and see if anything is recoverable but they may be too corrupted.
(I presume that you don't have any of them uploaded to Musescore.com)
In reply to You could try changing the… by yonah_ag
I could try that. Thx
In reply to I could try that. Thx by hotdave8998197
Or you could try OneDrive as I have repeatedly suggested, and probably be back up and running completely in minutes.
In reply to Or you could try OneDrive as… by Marc Sabatella
For a restore via OneDrive the files would need to have been on the computer's hard drive not on a flash drive.
Just in case they were also on the hard drive and in a Onedrive folder then see:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore-a-previous-version-o…
Restore with a Microsoft personal account should keep 25 previous versions.
In reply to For a restore via OneDrive… by yonah_ag
As per the original post from earlier this year, it is a "hard drive" that was reformatted. It's not clear that there really was a flash drive involved at all.
In reply to I could try that. Thx by hotdave8998197
@hotdave8998197
OK, I've just read your related thread so did you ever try the Onedrive restore? As Marc rightly says, this is a really easy option. (See link above.)