Suggestions for disk data recovery software

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 07:27 -0600, Linda 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.

Stop.

Use dd to take an image of the disk partition. You can do this
regardless of what OS created the partition.

Then work with the image, not the disk. Continuing to use the disk risks
causing further damage.

If the data is truly precious, send the disk to a professional recovery
firm. They have tools not at your disposal.

Regards, K.

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