Tutorial on how to successfully recover data from a Severely Corrupted hard drive in Ubuntu Linux using Testdisk and Photorec.

A “professional” repair shop attempted recovery of data from this Windows Laptop drive, but failed. Using Testdisk in Linux I recovered about 70% of the drive. (Could have been more, but it was crippling my system and running horrifically slow)

sudo apt-get install smartmontools
sudo apt-get install –no-install-recommends smartmontools

Find out drive number with GUI tools, Gparted, or “fdisk -l”
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdx
sudo testdisk /dev/sdx
Take a backup image if you have enough disk space spare on your system
sudo photorec image.dd (or /dev/sdx)

find . -type f //( -iname /”*.jpg/” -o -iname /”*.jpeg/” -o -iname /”*.png/” //) -exec cp ‘{}’ /destination/ //;

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