Homegrown, mixed in w/ family pics - any thoughts?

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My co-worker is a down to Earth dude, with a spouse and a couple of kids. At lunch today, he was telling me that his external hard drive is corrupted (see pic above). It still shows 300GB of information on it, but it won't show up on his computer now. The folder shows up but he can't see any of the files. My immediate thoughts were to send it off, since it has videos of his kids on it. That's irreplaceable.

He was hesitant, and then shared that it also has homegrown from before he was married in a secret folder. So, he wants his kids' videos, but isn't willing to send it off for extraction because he doesn't trust some random IT person with the homegrown videos.

Any thoughts from the IT experts on the board? I told him to just ship it, since sharing is against the law, but he wasn't trying to hear that shit...at all.

 

[Princenubian]

‘Carry on…….

 

[yureeka9]

His best bet is to learn whatever methods or software the IT pros use and do it himself. I've had to do a restore to my hard drives plenty of times. It aint hard at all.

 

[bigdog_bx]

I used to be the guy that “knows computers” around my way. After a while, you know that was the first thing I looked for since I wasn’t getting paid. Most people think putting it in a folder hidden somewhere on the computer does it, but a simple search for .jpg’s or .mov’s pop it up. Lol I stopped working on peoples computers though because they would always fuck it up again and be like it was working perfectly before. So now I point them to Bestbuy. Not worth the time and headache. Saw some interesting shit over the years though lol.

 

[fourthstbully]

i have the same type issue. been holding on to this external hard drive for a minute.
i'd pay whatever to have it fixed or be able to get the files, but i'm not trusting nobody not to violate.

 

[sorcererforemost]

He either needs to enable the folders to be visible, or try plugging ot to another machine.

He could also use an extraction tool/HDD or SSD reader to get to the files.

But I would start with trying it on another machine.