Best tool to recover removed files [duplicate]
Testdisk works great. You could boot from a LiveCD, point testdisk at your drive, navigate to where the deleted files were, and copy them off.
Give a chance to Foremost (here sourceforge project, last v1.5.7 from 2010). It's an easy-to-use forensics program which may be helpful for your case:
sudo apt-get install foremost
Alternative: In this download link you will get a compressed file, inside of which you can find the README file with instructions.
After compiling and installing a description of the command line arguments can be found in the man page:
man foremost