I would suggest though where possible, to create a raw image backup of the disk first (in read-only mode) and then use the various data recovery tools on a copy of that backup image instead of the disk itself (for the tools that support working on images instead of original media). There are also other more specialized tools that help with recovering specific types of files (e.g. LiveCD - a commercial solution with demo versions of some recovery, backup, and system tools on a bootable Linux-based live CD.Seems to work with a lot more than just photos. PhotoRec - by the same people who make TestDisk, works by looking for specific file type signatures.TestDisk - which you already mentioned, but does come on quite a few various Live CDs.I don't have any recommendations as I've rarely used any data recovery software over the years, but there are a variety of live CDs bundled with different data recovery tools, some GUI, some CLI. actually, is there some easily bootable Live CD that would allow me to test this and that would have recovery software built in? I haven't tested this recently, but my brother ran into something along these lines a while ago and I have read about it recently too. Is there something else I can use? It must be compatible with Windows 98 or DOS since, as far as I can tell, there is some kind of UDF-mismatch that prevents LS-120 disks made in 9x from reading properly in XP or newer. I tried the DOS version of TestDisk and it does not detect the LS-120 drive at all in Windows 98SE or in pure DOS mode (yes, they are readable in DOS), so it seems that program just doesn't have the correct method of detecting LS-120 disks. The disks haven't been written to in 20 years so it's unlikely that anything beyond the ~70MB mark on them has been overwritten at any point.
Lately I've been trying to scrounge up some data that I seemingly lost many years ago, and while the data does not appear to be on these disks and isn't in any of the backups of them that were made over the years, there is actually a large portion of free space on both disks and I think my last hope of finding the missing data may be in running some file recovery software on them to see if there's anything of use left in the empty space that had been deleted.
I have two Imation LS-120 SuperDisks that came with my Gateway G6-400 way back in 1999.
no the disks haven't failed! They are both perfectly readable and their current contents were backed up decades ago.
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