I've got a friend that had malware delete his pictures folder. Or something to that extent. Something to the tune of six years worth of pictures gone. His fault for not backing them up, but whatever, no use crying over spilled milk.
I used to know of software that would look for "deleted" files and recover them, but that was before I even started high school. Does anybody know of anything that'll work nowadays? I'm guessing that the data is still on the hard drive, there's just nothing pointing at it.
I seriously doubt the data is completely gone if it's six years worth of photos, so any caliber of software would be good. And whether or not it's open source won't be an issue... if it comes down to it, I'll just steal it. But I'd prefer open source/freeware, as rare of a chance as that would be!
Thanks in advance! Any positive solutions welcome.