Re: [hampshire] Data recovery

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Author: Adam Trickett
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Subject: Re: [hampshire] Data recovery

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On Saturday 25 November 2006 02:54, Alasdair Ross wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Tonight, a friend of mine has accidentally deleted some important photos
> from her digital camera.
> Does anyone know how it might be possible to recover the data stored on
> the memory card (xD card), or of any good data recovery companies which
> could do this. She says that she has taken only 1 photo since she deleted
> the photos from the card and I assume that the memory on the card will be
> marked as being free (rather than the data being overwritten) so it should
> be possible to recover some of the data.
> I haven't attempted any kind of data recovery before so I am reluctant to
> try anything without any advice.


You could try dd_rescue and photorec.

See:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

and

http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

Both are in Debian and I assume other distros. I've had some luck with them
for recovering images of a broken CD.

--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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