In case anyone is in a similar situation, I can’t say enough good things about PhotoRec. It saved my ass more than once from hard drive recovery down to SD cards.
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In case anyone is in a similar situation, I can’t say enough good things about PhotoRec. It saved my ass more than once from hard drive recovery down to SD cards.
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Yeah, yeah, it’s command line only, but once you get your stuff back it’s worth learning!
I second this. I luckily never needed it myself but I saved the stuff of a few people over the years and it’s not one of those annoying „free“ apps.
And it is not only command line. PhotoRec has a gui, only testdisk doesn’t