How to recover iPAD photos? like Recuva?

hi gang
haven't tried this b4.. wife's hard drive failed, can't get it to read yet. she has a lot of photos on ipad that she moves, then deletes. There's gotta be a way to 'undelete' the recoverable photos from the ssd of the ipad. I thought Recuva could scan just about anything connected to the PC, but it fails.

What can I use to do the job? I see something on Cnet called Tenorshare but wary of everything downloadable from that site! anyone know?

 

Source: https://www.piriform.com/recuva
Recuva works on Windows; an iPad is not running Windows. Since I haven't used Apple hardware since 1989, I'm no help.
You need to hang around an ipad forum and inquire what is used to recover lost photos.

 

you're sorta right and mostly wrong.
it doesn't matter what the ipad is running, it matters how windows mounts it. recuva will recover files from an android device that shows up as any other drive under windows.
the trick would be getting the ipad to do the same, but I haven't researched that either.
looks like there are a couple of windows products that can do it by harnessing features of itunes. a lotta loading, but I'll get there

 

It does matter what the ipad is running, or more precisely how it is formatted. iPads are formatted HFS+, which no version of Windows can mount, much less read. Therefore, there's no Windows program that's going to be able to recover files from your iPad. Plodr is right, you would likely have more luck submitting your question to an Apple forum. Check out Softpedia.com site. They have a whole section of apps dealing with Apple gadgets.

 

Hey zapp, I thought some more about this matter and something didn't make sense to me. One can use iTunes to interface between a NTFS formatted PC and a HFS+ formatted iOS device like an iPod touch or an iPhone. That seems to fly in the face of what I stated earlier in this thread, although I've read that "fact" on numerous occasions. I think we're both missing something here. I therefore downloaded some Windows apps that are supposed to be able to move data between iOS devices and Windows OS (CopyTrans, Syncios, PodTrans) to see if I could access the file system on my wife's Apple laptop. Fortunately, before I did that I did a trial run on my iPod Nano using Syncios. I moved a few MP3s from my PC to the iPod.... and it trashed all of the data on the latter.

So, I don't know what to tell you. Developers seem to think that it's possible to recover files from an HFS+ formatted iOS device to an NTFS formatted PC, but my one small test didn't lend any credence to that notion. Like I said, check out Softpedia.com - they have a whole software section devoted to iOS devices. And the downloads are safe. I've been downloading from there for years without a single malware problem.