The slogan, "It simply works!" grabs our attention. Who hasn't accidentally lost photos or videos, documents, or archives from a hard disk or even from a digital camera memory?
John Carter has recovered thousands of files from flash drives that anyone might say there was no way anything could be left on it to recover. A companion program that comes with Photorec is Testdisk. Testdisk claims to be able to restore a damaged hard drive. Access the full PDF article in the Reviews page here on the PMUG website. John includes detailed instructions on how to use the program. Click on the Command + to enlarge the small illustrations.