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You can use Recuva. Just make sure you run it from a USB or something. Try to prevent as many writes to that disk as possible
by sammy2255 4y ago
You can use Recuva. Just make sure you run it from a USB or something. Try to prevent as many writes to that disk as possible
- raffraffraff 4y agoThat was the option I was going to go with, but it means using my Wife's Windows machine. Also TestDisk or PhotoRec, but I don't think they can recover directory structure, so it would be thousands of files all higgledy-piggledy.
- randerson 4y agoWithout knowing what types of files they lost, this might not be too bad. For the first round of organizing, sort by file extension. E.g. Anything with .exe was probably Downloads, video files go to My Videos, and so on. A number of apps will organize JPGs into a consistent directory structure based on the date or other fields in the metadata. For the remaining documents, view by x-large icons so your relative can quickly categorize what goes where.
- Thaxll 4y agoNot if you have a SSD.
- raffraffraff 4y agoWell after using TestDisk and PhotoRec, not being happy with the results, I used Recuva and I now have over 90% of the data back with the correct directory structure. So for anyone reading this thread, I can't update the original post, but this is the answer. It's a GUI, it's super simple to use and it recovered files and folders better than any other free tool.