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[ale] Extreme Practical Data Recovery (Part 2)
- Subject: [ale] Extreme Practical Data Recovery (Part 2)
- From: ale at sixit.com (Robert Reese~)
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:08:13 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
> 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.
BTW, here's a link to PhotoRec:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
R~