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Awesome thank you Mr. Grenier.

Ok so I got a whole load of photos back from photorec - as usual it was the best tool for the job.

Now, I've used the following code to rename by any available timestamp in the exif information:

for i in ./*.jpg; do cp $i ../final/`exiv2 -p s $i | grep timestamp | awk '{ print $4 "-" $5 }'`.jpg ...

Hi Fiona,

Tried again with chkdsk and its reporting it as RAW and therefore wont do anything with it Windows. I quickly tried photorec and as expected it sees the drive and can recover, but is just as slow as copying the files out of testdisk. Not sure why its so slow, assuming its the bad sectors ...

Thanks Fiona ill perserver with chkdsk also. Thanks for the other tips ill report any progress.

I've been using Testdisk for some time now to recover drives in various states. It has always been my go to app to resolve issues.

This one is bugging me a little though. I'm working on a 1TB drive with about 300GB of data on the drive. It's formatted as NTFS, Windows pretty much hangs when its ...