cgsecurity.org

It looks like photorec is available for free on from these developers.

i basically used an external hard drive, created two new partitions on it, copied the bad partition to one of them and ran photorec and saved the recovered files to the second partition.

Now for the hard part - figuring out ...

i'm running PCLinuxOS 64bit. i upgraded the same machine from the 32 bit version but evidently didn't see one of the options regarding my /home partition. i have installed new users on this partition but still cannot see the old folders and files.

The hard disk is 250 Gb with /, /swap and now /home ...