Given the wide range of possible file damage, hardware issues and more, recovery is more art than science. There are procedures that help such as cloning the drive and operating only on the copy to see what you can drag off it.
In closing, R-disk has been around awhile and works sometimes.
Bob
I found this at the Victor Sazhan site and wondered if anybody had tried it and comments about it.
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