Photoshop cs3 recovery software

so for some reason i went to maximize a youtube video which coincidentally crashed my computer while my photoshop file was saving
does anyone have any advice for a good .psd restoration / recovery software?

There is not much you can do with a broken PSD file. Try opening it in something like Infranview. If that works, you might get something, otherwise, consider it lost.
When work become valuable due to the amount of time invested, it is wise to save your backups with differing names. When I was freelancing, I used to save each backup with a version number, so that if one died, I would have an older one to go to rather than starting over. If disk space got scarce, as it did in those days, I would kill some of the oldest versions.

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