NTFS file recovery in Linux

Roland0

Roland0

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Hey peeps,

I am trying to recover a document (well a few) from a HDD that has been reformatted.
I remember watching a video not long ago that had a nice file recovery tool in it, based on linux. It could recover files after a format or delete. These files are not of a normal format so many "canned" applictaions fail to pick them up

Does anybody know what this is likely to be? If not doesn anybody here know of any free tools (in win or *nix) that will be good for this purpose?

Many Thanks.
 
Not sure what it was in the video that you watched, but Photorec is a decent tool which recovers a lot of data.
 
JHeaton said:
Not sure what it was in the video that you watched, but Photorec is a decent tool which recovers a lot of data.
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This, i was thinking about it yesterday and it sprung to mind when i saw your thread but i couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called.

It ignores the filesystem and looks for blocks of data in the hard drive with a familiar format.
 
Photorec is great, it only seems to recover know file formats (i think it looks for the file header) But it doesnt seem to recognise .xlt files :(

Thanks for the help though.
 
+1 for test disk...

I had a Linux software RAID 1 with NTFS that went rather wrong, the whole thing got wiped, poped on of the disks out and used testdisk, was a little confusing at first back after a hour of messing around i managed to copy out just the files i needed (this was after i had deleted the partitions as well
 
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