https/www.piriform.com/recuva is about as good as it gets for fee software.
but it only really works if you recover everything because files will often have multiple entries with the same name in the mbr/mfr (master boot record/master file record) some of which are legitimate and will be rescued while others will contain bad pointers and will produce corrupted files.
always recover to a blank hdd. never try to recover to the same hdd your rescuing.
https/www.piriform.com/recuva is about as good as it gets for fee software.
but it only really works if you recover everything because files will often have multiple entries with the same name in the mbr/mfr (master boot record/master file record) some of which are legitimate and will be rescued while others will contain bad pointers and will produce corrupted files.
always recover to a blank hdd. never try to recover to the same hdd your rescuing.