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Re: [LUG] File Recovery

 

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 ed

Depending 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.

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