PhotoRec
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 Demonstration of PhotoRec running in Linux |
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| Developed by | Christophe Grenier |
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| Latest release | 6.11 / 2009-04-19 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | CLI |
| Type | Data recovery |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec |
PhotoRec is a data recovery software tool designed to recover lost files from digital camera memory, (CompactFlash, Memory Stick, SecureDigital, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, USB Memory Drives etc.), Hard Disks and CD-ROMs. It recovers most common photo formats, including JPEG, and also recovers audio files including MP3, document formats such as Microsoft Office, PDF, and HTML, and archive formats including ZIP.
PhotoRec does not attempt to write to the damaged media you are about to recover from. Recovered files are instead written to the directory from where you are running PhotoRec or any other directory you choose. PhotoRec is shipped with TestDisk.
[edit] Operating systems
PhotoRec is compatible with:
- DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS box)
- Microsoft Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista)
- Linux
- FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
- SunOS
- Mac OS X
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official Site
- Adrian Crenshaw, Data Carving with PhotoRec to retrieve deleted files from formatted drives for forensics and disaster recovery
This video introduces the concept of data carving/file carving for recovering deleted files, even after a drive has been formatted.
- Seth Fogie - InformIT, Stealing Your Family Vacation: Memories of a Media Card
- Kaspersky Lab, Recovering files encrypted by Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak using PhotoRec After encrypting files, the virus deletes the original files but PhotoRec can recover them.
