Suggestions for disk data recovery software

Tue Feb 16 13:38:50 UTC 2016

On 16 February 2016 at 14:27, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
> My daughters windows lap top hard drive that had sudden failure. Am hoping
> to recover some recent photos of my grandson that had not been backed up
> yet. I stuck it in a external case and and ran PhotoRec I am now trying
> testdisk any other suggestions for what I should use.

Get the data off it first with DDrescue:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/211578/whats-the-difference-between-ddrescue-gddrescue-and-dd-rescue

/Then/ run Photorec or whatever on the recovered data.

This protects you from the drive failure getting worse or becoming total.

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