Open Source File Data Recovery Software
By admin on Apr 16, 2012 in open source, system tools
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. If you need to recover lost data files, nyc data recovery service offer the most reliable and technologically advanced data recovery solutions in the industry.
PhotoRec is free – this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU General Public License (GPLV v2+). PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. You can download them from this link.
For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory card you are about to recover lost data from. Important: As soon as a pic or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pics or files to that memory card buying guide device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data. This means that while using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.
PhotoRec runs under
- DOS/Win9x
- Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7
- Linux
- FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
- Sun Solaris
- Mac OS X
and can be compiled on almost every Unix system.
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