RAW External 40 GB HDD Data Recovery

[bscheema]

Dear all,

I have used testdisk on my Linux Mint Machine, to create image of my gone bad, very very old, external, 40 GB USB HDD.
Later I used photorec tool to recover data from that image.
I was successful in recovering 3.2 GB out of nearly 35 GB of data that was there on my HDD.
Can you please suggest me a better way/tool which can recover complete 35 GB disk image?

Thanks in advance!

regards,
Baljeet.

[fzabkar]

http://dmde.com/ (limited freeware)
http://www.r-studio.com/data_recovery_l ... load.shtml (demo)

[S.Haran]

Obviously your recovery chances depend on the quality of the image you made. Testdisk may not be the best choice to image "gone bad" drives. Take a look at Linux ddrescue. It is designed to image failing drives.

[Kum Ruzvelt]

Is tou image file 40GB in size?
What wad wrong wuth hdd?