[SGVLUG] File system corruption

[John Lowry]

Emerson, Tom (*IC) wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- Of John E. Kreznar
>> Rich Pinder <rpinder at usc.edu> writes:
>>
>>> If anyone can steer me in the proper direction, I'd 
>> appreciate it. I 
>>> would like to recover the data on the drive, if possible
>> I wish I could help, but -- no idea.  
> 
> Oh, I missed that part earlier -- since you mentioned/inferred the files
> you are missing are images (tif files?) I *do* have a fairly good
> pointer for recovering [photo] data: http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
> 
> As it's on sourceforge, yes, you get the source -- not strictly GPL as I
> understand, but at least "in the public domain" (though close reading of
> the "readme" file doesn't state that directly either -- originally this
> was developed by/for someone in the air force special investigations
> department, so...)
> 
> I've used this to recover photos from a memory stick after windows
> "decided" the drive was unreadable -- dd'd the "device" to a file and
> worked on the copy -- pulled the photos out instantly. (and even some I
> thought I deleted...)
> 
> Looking at the .conf file included in the tarball, it looks like it will
> find:
> 
>     AOL "art" files
>     gif, jpg, png, bmp, and TIF pictures (lucky you!)
>     avi, (quicktime) mov, mpg, and even "flash" movies (fws)
>     "word" .doc files [note: will also find images of the above formats
> if they are "embedded" in a document!]
>     outlook pst/ost and outlook express dbx/idx/mbx files
>     wordperfect documents (wpf)
>     html
>     adobe pdf's
>     AOL "mailbox" files
>     pgp/gpg keyrings 
>     rpm's (wow)
>     wav, ra, wmv, wma, & mp3 sound files
>     windows "registry" files [NT and win9x]
>     zip and rar archives [and, I presume, files within those as well]
>     java and c++ source files
>     and "scansoft" paperport "max" files [whatever those are -- fax
> input files?]
> 

Another program I have had success with recovery all kinds of stuff, and
it does not care about filesystems, is photorec.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
-- 
John Lowry
johnlowry at gmail.com