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On 15/10/10 21:05, David Vanstone wrote:
Grant Sewell wrote:On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:16:41 +0100 Edwin Rhodes wrote:Hello a friend of mine has lost data on a usb stick, formatted for use with windows, do you know of a FREE or GNU utility I can use to recover the data? Please advise, Thanks edDepending on the severity of the data loss, you could try any one of the following: testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions photorec - Recover lost pictures from digital camera foremost - Recover files using their headers and footers scalpel - very similar to foremost autopsy - Web-page based graphical tool for data extraction magicrescue - Scans a block device and extracts known file types by looking at magic bytes Grant.Used photorec on a 320g usb hdd the other day, was amazing, recovered all films mp3s, documents and loads of "deleted" files. Dave
Yep, it's a great app. I remember a few years back a company I was working for spent about £100 on a recovery app for Windows (granted it worked well, and got everything back) but it still amazes me sometimes how this stuff is available for free. I managed to recover about 60GB of photos from a friend's external hard drive when he accidentally deleted the files. Okay it took all night to run through but it did the job (I left him to sort the pictures out though as there were thousands of them!).
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