Photorec Portable Media Players

It cant be downloaded in a separate package, but, once installed, it has its own command.

By default, it searches for JPEG, PNG, TTF, ZIP, GZ, EXE, ELF, TXT and eCryptfs headers, ignoring the rest of the filesystem.

It supports the EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, exFAT, FAT, NTFS, and HFS filesystems.

PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your medias file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.

For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory card you are about to recover lost data from.

Important: As soon as a pic or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pics or files to that memory device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data.

This means that while using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.

PhotoRec is free - this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU General Public License (GPLV v2).

PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again.

PhotoRec will scan a hard drive for deleted files and automatically recover them to a location you specify.

By default, PhotoRec will recover almost all deleted data files that it can find.

If you wish to specify the types of files it will restore, you can use the File Options screen to make these changes.

When the program is done restoring the files, the restored file will be located in the recupdir folder.

You can the browse the contents of this file to safely restore the files you wanted back to their original location.

ReiserFS includes some special optimizations centered around tails, a name for files and end portions of files that are smaller than a filesystem block.

In order to increase performance, ReiserFS is able to store files inside the btree leaf nodes themselves, rather than storing the data somewhere else on the disk and pointing to it.

Unfortunately, PhotoRec isnt able to deal with this - thats why it doesnt work well with ReiserFS.

Photorec Portable Media Players

PhotoRec has been successfully tested with various portable media players including iPod and the following Digital Cameras.

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