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Old 08-10-2008, 11:26 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Bob Russell View Post
In fact, I've recently done what I could to try (unsuccessfully) to recover some lost photos and a memorial tribute video for a family member. He recently served overseas and lost someone he served with, and these are the surviving memories, as well as the tribute he had created. Unfortunately, the hard drive didn't survive the harsh conditions and professional recovery services run something like $1,000 even with military discounts.
I don't know what you might have tried, but I recommend a free, open source program called Test-Disk.

Test-Disk does low level reads of the disk, bypassing the filesystem, and can do things like find and recover partitions. A companion program called Photo-Rec can search damaged drives for photo files.

I've used Test-Disk with a fair bit of success in recovering damaged drives, and I recommend it as a standard part of anyone's tech toolkit.
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