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Stuff happens -- back up your files. That 1st review of sorts BTW, offers the opportunity for a lesson or three. If you do this sort of thing as a biz, or simply don't want to repeat a data recovery project for a friend or family member, the 1st question you ask should be: 'Where's your backup?' You may get a pleasant surprise, finding there's actually very few if any files to find, & if not, if they don't have a backup, what better time to drive the point home that they should have had one. As a biz you're almost guaranteed a future sale, setting up a backup solution & teaching them how to use it. Next, and this is a point Ashraf covered in his review [when he talks about portability], the moment the user finds that they've lost some files, they should most always pull the plug. *Anything* written to a drive at that point could securely erase one or more of those lost files.
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That said, if Windows is on partition or drive C: & the lost data's on D:, it's often [usually] possible to run Windows without writing a thing to that D: drive/partition. I mention that because that's one more reason to keep stuff like your photos on a partition or drive separate from Windows. It also makes managing a partition easier if it's a few or several hundred GB rather than 1TB or more. OK, so you shouldn't run the PC from the drive/partition that has lost files you hope to recover. That means either running that PC/laptop from a boot disc or USB stick, one that does not by default write to the HDD, or connecting that drive to another PC/laptop, where again nothing is written to the drive by default. You also need some place to write your recovered files -- it doesn't make sense to securely erase the data you're trying to recover.
As a 1st step it doesn't hurt to get an idea of the drive's integrity, checking S.M.A.R.T. Data if nothing else. It also doesn't hurt to run a virus [including rootkit] scan -- if files are missing because of mal-ware/ransom-ware, simply running a file recovery app may be a fool's errand. And if there is mal-ware present, connecting that drive [or its clone] to your main system might potentially expose you to some risk. There are then basically 3 scenarios. 1) using a boot disc/USB stick, run recovery software with everything as-is, using an external drive as a place to store recovered files. 2) using a boot disc/USB stick, backup the complete drive/partition, sector by sector [not a regular backup or clone] to an external drive -- later you can run recovery software on an *exact* clone.
3) physically remove the drive, running recovery software on another PC/laptop with that drive [or an exact clone] connected. If it's work to connect a drive to your PC, or if you're using a laptop, eSATA or USB 3.0 docks & external housings can be found cheap on sale -- just remember that if there's no active cooling, extended operations [AV scans, backup/cloning, file recovery] may cause drive temps to climb. That's often not cause for a tremendous amount of alarm, but it can shorten the life of the drive, &/or push a marginal drive over the edge.
The most efficient method from a tech's perspective would be removing the drive, & if it belonged to a customer, returning it as soon as creating the sector by sector backup or clone was completed -- creating that backup or clone can take a while, so little reason to sit on your thumbs while you wait for it. Working with an exact duplicate of the drive lets you run as many recovery apps as you want, when you want, while the customer continues to use their PC/laptop. In the example given in the 1st review, if the customer was a fair distance from the shop, if nothing else the tech could be making sales calls in the area, or working on-line while the backup or cloning process was going on in his vehicle. After reading the real world experiences in comment #1's 1st, linked review, then reading comment #3, it seems worth a quick reminder -- if you have a good backup the only files you can lose are those added since that backup. Stuff happens -- back up your files.