I have been given my girlfriends sisters laptop that needs some data recovering, 2 folders containing pictures had been deleted and emptied from the recycle bin. I tried a data recovery with "recover my files" and "GetDataBack". The software was installed on my own laptop running Vista with her drive connected via USB.

Since I have ran this software nearly ALL the files on the HDD have become corrupt. The hard drive which was previously ok (besides 2 deleted folders) now contain the following files:

Directory of F:\

01/01/1980 00:00 0 Sô¸OF¬¸O.
01/01/1601 01:00 1,447,116,590 [email protected]@@
01/01/1601 01:00 1,430,339,374 CComModu.le@
09/02/2021 10:42 1,920,234,345 IUnknown.@@
03/02/2021 10:50 1,701,470,799 arBase@@.
09/02/2014 10:42 1,668,571,504 ct@ATL@@.
04/11/2038 13:58 16,448 h@@
12/03/2036 12:42 <DIR> 3u_guid@.@b$
14/09/2011 00:00 1,397,302,335 TL@@@ATL.@@
20/11/2038 12:42 1,081,109,605 lp@@3U_G.UID
14/09/2011 00:00 1,128,473,663 [email protected]@
01/01/1601 01:00 1,430,339,374 odel@ATL.@@@
01/01/1601 01:00 1,430,339,374 tory@ATL.@@@
14/09/2011 00:00 1,145,644,095 ISetupHe.lp@
01/01/1601 01:00 1,598,310,729 ispatchI.mpl
31/01/2018 06:09 1,147,094,089 ISetupHe.lp@
01/01/1601 01:00 0 InfoHold.er@
01/01/1601 01:00 1,341,595,616 @
17 File(s) 20,727,806,742 bytes
1 Dir(s) 112,607,232 bytes free


Clearly the hard drive is corrupt and no longer boots. My main priority is to get her pictures back, the data recovery software says it has managed to recover some of them, but none of it is readable.

Can anyone help me?