Photo restore
 

Hello,

I need restore photos from a hard drive that has died. Can anyone suggest the best/quickest software to do this please?

Re: Photo restore
 

Not enough info. Is the drive still recognised by the bios?

Re: Photo restore
 

Hi - yes it is indeed.

Re: Photo restore
 

That's a good start. Piriform's Recuva is worth a try.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

That's quite a good freebie. For most of my recovery work I use a program called iCare Data Recovery but that's not free. Unfortunately with data recovery software it's very much a case of getting what you pay for.

Testdisk is also good but it's command line only. No pretty interface.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

I've not tried this but it's probably worth a look. Formerly paid software but currently free.
http://undeleteplus.com/

Probably don't need to warn you but just in case. Don't install the programs on the same disk you are trying to recover as there's a good chance it'll overwrite stuff.

Re: Photo restore
 

I use this program with great results

http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/dr.html

FREE!

Re: Photo restore
 

Grabbed. Thanks. One can never have too many file recovery programs.
:)

Re: Photo restore
 

Thanks so much from what she tells me now, it's not as bad as it seems.. boots to Windows and desktop just wants these photos "saving"