I remember using a tool called photorec and another one that I cant remember. It extracts by track so most files will be fragmented. May help.

This is a file carving software, petty good actually. This and foremost are your best bet when you accidently format your drive. However for a failing drive, it would be able to read the drive. It hit a broken sector and continuously keep retrying. So only use it when the drive is healthy

On Monday, June 24, 2013, wanjiku kamau wrote:

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Hi guyz, Whats the best tool to recover data from a crashed disk?

Muriithi

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Regards, Fridah Kamau

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