I take no responsibility for the loss of any data. This is my take on recovering data from my friends broken hard drive. Warranty: I am not a professional in data recovery.
I had to recover data from a broken external hard drive and my typical go to recovery software failed ( TestDisk), because the disk’s hardware was severely damaged. You can download them from this Link.Introduction to Data Recovery with free Unix Tools
PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of filesystems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. PhotoRec is free, this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU Public License. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media`s filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted. PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its `Photo Recovery` name) from digital camera memory. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further Analysis. TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. TestDisk can Fix partition table, recover deleted partition Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector Fix FAT tables Rebuild NTFS boot sector Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup Fix MFT using MFT mirror Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 FileSystem Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions. Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. TestDisk is a powerful free Data Recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table).
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