Recovering deleted photographs

[Oisin Greaney]

Hi folks,

A friend of mine accidentally deleted all the photos from her camera after a night out recently, and has had very mixed results in recovering them. Can anyone suggest a decent recovery method?

Regards,

Oisín

[Matthew Kolder]

Hi Oisin,

Try using photorec. I think you can get it on Ubuntu using apt get install photorec. Worked wonders for me, during the last recovery job :)

Matthew

[Matthew Kolder]

Photorec is actually located in package called testdisk. After installing it just go to terminal and type in photorec. Its fairly straight forward program to use.

Matthew

[Sean Flaherty]

Semi-related / rude hijack

Anyone able to suggest someone to look at an external seagate that died. Not certain, but I think it's a power issue and the data is intact.

Not looking for a freebie, but I'm not walking into PC World either!

[Nicola Di Marzo]

Hi,
i found this video-tutorial for photorec.
hope it helps you.
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[Nicola Di Marzo]

Sorry this is the link :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJdx2ORi3r4

Il 22/07/2012 14:31, Sean Flaherty ha scritto:

[Mark Grealish]

I will be in Galway on Tuesday/Wednesday. I can run recovery for you overnight if you wish. :)

[Oisin Greaney]

Cheers, you guys rock!

[Domhnall Walsh]

Photorec is good, but make sure no new data is written to the card before attempting recovery.

[Paul Mac Eoin]

Many of you will have used CCleaner by Piriform.

this is another one of their tools, meant for file recovery http://www.piriform.com/recuva

[Domhnall Walsh]

Have used that too, it's not bad. With either make sure you have as much free space as the card can store.

[Fergal O Grady]

I used PhotoRec (GPL license) last time and it worked well. It's cross platform as far as know and will pick up different file formats.

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[gerryk]

Sean... what symptoms is it displaying? Does the USB driver load when you plug it in? Does the drive spin up? 

Have you tried another enclosure or USB -> SATA interface?

/Gerry

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[Sean Flaherty]

Gerry,

Thanks for the reply, I was looking for something else and came across it, it now being a couple of months later.

If it wasn't screwed before it is now anyway... very long story... posting regarding some advice about that in a min.

[Bacon Zombie]

The VERY first thing you should do is run dd_rescue{1} and create a backup .img.
And then only run the tools off a copy of the .img and not the original media.

PhotoRec{2} and TestDisk{3} are probably the first tools to run, if
they do not get everything then have a look at Forensics Wiki{4} for
other tools.

{1} - http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Dd_rescue
{2} - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
{3} - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
{4} - http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Category:Tools

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[Sean Flaherty]

Hmm, yeah, yeah, I know some of these words...

Have to wait a bit before I do anything. Unfortunately a fire (everybody is ok) literally cooked my laptop and likely did the same to a lot of other electronics. Some of the stuff is ok to look at but you know yourself... Was a close call so I'm not even annoyed. I'll have to see what can be done in next few days.

[Oisin Greaney]

Woah dude sorry to hear that, hope you can make the best of a bad situation.