Windows 7: Data Recovery from missing partition

If you look at the link I provided PhotoRec should be be able to pull off more than common photo extension files. I gather you can also setup other file extensions.
The big thing seems to you need to recover from a disk that no longer has a file system and recovery needs to be done at the byte level. I think PW assumes the file system data is intact.
I'd keep plugging away with PhotoRec or ask the people you are helping if they want to purchase the Easeus product for RAW data recovery.



I would guess that RAW data recovery would be a slow process because it has to crawl its way through the whole disk at a byte level.

You can. The owners of the laptop said they only need their photos restored, so I set PhotoRec to recovery just .jpg files.

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I ended up purchasing a license to Power Recovery about two weeks ago and used that to recovery everything they needed, including their entire iTunes library. I do this often enough that I figured the software was worth the investment.

Does it have the free version?

It does, but it's limited to 1 GB of data. I tried it to see if it would read the drive, and it did, showing even the folder structure as well. So I went with the full version to add to my "toolkit".

Thanks. Will keep it as a future reference

So for future reference I gather PhotoRec wasn't up to the full task?

It was able to recovery the .jpg files, but they later remember they had video as well, and some documents. PhotoRec was grabbing .jpg files out of ther IE cache, and spending plenty of time on files I didn't really need. It would have done the job if nothing else worked, but there would have been hours of clean up and organizing to do. Power Recovery showed me the directory structure, and that triggered their memory that they needed additional files.

I want to know whether this issue is solved or not. Or you may try some other free software.