You can spend hours trialling different NTFS or FAT recovery software only to be disappointed to find that it was a trial version and only a few files could be recovered without purchasing the full version.
You then have to spend hours sorting through all the mambo jumbo of files.
By now I expected to find a recovery program that just recovered the files as they were on the drive.
Well I tried quite a few trial versions and was just that, disappointed.
Usually if the partition is lost or damaged and not reformatted I use Find And Mount : http://findandmount.com/ this is the quickest way to recover the files.
The drive will recover the partition and all the files reappear as they were on the drive before the partition was damaged.
This is only a temporary fix, you then need to copy all the files over to another drive, then you can format the drive again
If the drive was formatted, you will need some recovery software.
Here is a couple I found that worked well.
1st try DMDE : http://softdm.com/ : this was very cheap and it just works.
I chose NFTS then clicked search, within seconds I had a list of my files as they were in folders
I ticked the folders I wanted to recover and that was it.: Magnificent and cheap piece of software.
Works but the files were all in a list and it was recovering every file before my eye but it wasn't in folders, and that's what I was trying to achieve.
Testdisk : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
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