It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sabotsalvageur on 2025-07-08 12:29:17.

I have been presented with a challenge. I was given an old drive to attempt to recover pictures from it; it's a FAT32-formatted hard disk from an old Windows 7 system that crashed way back in the day; I have a .iso of the disk, tried using Autopsy to recover what files I could, only got some text content out of it. Does software exist that would assume a block of memory addresses in a moveable window is image data, then attempt to parse that data as pixel values in a trial-and-error basis? So far I've gotten about 100kB of email addresses from a disk image that occupies 16GB, and the pictures are the real prize