[SOLVED] data recovery software

[lbrunson]

formatted a old hard drive before I had gotten all the pics off it I wanted. realized it immediately and haven't written anything to the drive or accessed it at all hoping to make it easier to recover more/all of the pics. Have tired three different programs, Recuva, DiskGenius and another I forget name of. They all find the files I want to get back but have one limitation or another, only up to a certain total amount recovered or only up to certain file size recovered until I buy the full software.

Is there ANY shareware/freeware type software out there that doesn't have these limits? I'll buy a program to recover these photos if I have to but would sure rather find a freeware program without limitations if I can.

thanks
Les

 

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