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I registered an account on your forum here just to tell you thank you.

I spent the last few days desperately trying to recover some extremely important data when the hard drive failed. I tried every possible file recovery application that I could find, both Windows- and Linux-based. I was about to give up entirely, after countless hours of having no luck, even with the utilities that came so highly recommended, e.g. Spinrite and Scalpel.

Then I stumbled across a website that mentioned PhotoRec, which is something I hadn't yet tried. As soon as I started PhotoRec, it just WORKED! When no other utility had any luck seeing any files at all on the drive, PhotoRec is pulling hundreds of files off the drive.

I don't understand what your application does that others can't seem to do, but thank you, thank you, thank you for your hard work in putting this program together.

Incidentally, PhotoRec, in the end, was able to recover almost 200GB of data, when no other piece of software I tried could go beyond recognizing where the original partitions once were. I don't have the technical knowledge to understand specifically how PhotoRec works that is different from the way other recovery applications works, but it did do what nothing else could do.