Recovering files with Recuva or what?

[9.3]

Stupidly, I managed to not only delete some photos into the recycle bin but then emptied that as well. Don't ask me how ....
Anyway, Googled a possible answer and it came up with Recuva which I downloaded and ran. Unfortunately it only found about 4 usable images of the about 300 I had deleted. I didn't use the computer to download anything at all after I had emptied the bin to avoid overwriting.
Is there a deeper recovery program available that anyone can recommend over Recuva or am I wasting my time?

[colin79666]

Try running a deep scan with Recuva overnight. Whatever you do, don't use the PC for anything else until you have finished file recovery as it only increases the chance of the file being overwritten.

https://www.piriform.com/support/recuva#204044074

[MyVTECGoesBwaaah]

I have had some success with this:

http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

and this:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

For getting deleted files off a USB stick

[malman]

more specific than test disk linked above

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

[Brigand]

Recuva is pretty good, I've been using it for a couple of years now, although mainly to check old HDD's to see what I can find before destroying them.

As already stated your best chance to recover anything is using a Deep Scan, which can take a few hours depending on the size of the HDD. It'll find all sorts of stuff, although not all of it is possible to recover sadly.

Edited by Brigand on Monday 30th March 23:12