I'm officially in mourning. My hard drive is DEAD, DEAD, DEAD. Just years of photographs...gone.
All of my bird photos...including egrets, herons and local birds. And my critters. Autumn photos. My full frame shots from the white mountains. Ok, I'm done.
@Lindy
Ohh no!! That truly sucks!
Sorry to hear.
So many will ask why didn’t you back up your pictures. But that’s not helping you now.
Data recovery programs or professionals can potentially help.
@Lindy OK I’m late to the conversation. It really depends on what went wrong with the hard drive and the tools that the third-party people use.
Without throwing false hope. I was able to recover data from a drive that the computer couldn’t read from or boot by sticking it in the freezer for 24 hours. Then keeping it “frozen cold” as I access it from an external drive adapter. Again, professionals have better tools.