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From: brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:25:26 -0400
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Raylynn A. Knight wrote:
> Anyone have any experience using any of these tools for recovering jpegs
> from a drive formatted for Mac OSX?  My daughter has not been backing up
> her system as she was taught.  So I now have an 80 GB Seagate Momentus
> drive from her Mac Mini that is failing and 18 months worth of photos to
> recover.

gddrescue and photorec are both filesystem agnostic. gddrescue copies
raw blocks, and photorec scans them for known file headers.  I'd copy
the drive with ddrescue, then run photorec on the copy.

-Brian

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