BEST IMAGE RECOVERY DOWNLOAD?

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its from a sony digital camera,downloadable as my disc drive has had it.

That's not the clearest question I have ever seen.

I'm guessing that your hard disk has failed and you are trying to retrieve any deleted photos that are still recoverable from the memory card on your camera?

I have found Photorec from the Testdisk suite of tools works well on Linux. I haven't tried the windows version. Recuva is often recommended on Windows, but I found that it didn't work well for me.