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PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks (Mechanical Hard drives, Solid State Drives...), 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.
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 application 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 picture or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pictures or files to that memory 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.
ReiserFS includes some special optimizations centered around tails, a name for files and end portions of files that are smaller than a filesystem block. In order to increase performance, ReiserFS is able to store files inside the b*tree leaf nodes themselves, rather than storing the data somewhere else on the disk and pointing to it. Unfortunately, PhotoRec isn't able to deal with this - that's why it doesn't work well with ReiserFS.
PhotoRec works with hard disks, CD-ROMs, memory cards (CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Secure Digital/SD, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, etc.), USB memory drives, DD raw image, EnCase E01 image, etc.
PhotoRec has been successfully tested with various portable media players including iPod and the following Digital Cameras:
PhotoRec searches for known file headers. If there is no data fragmentation, which is often the case, it can recover the whole file.PhotoRec recognizes and recovers numerous file formats including ZIP, Office, PDF, HTML, JPEG and various graphics file formats.The whole list of file formats recovered by PhotoRec contains more than 480 file extensions (about 300 file families).
FAT, NTFS, ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems store files in data blocks (also called clusters under Windows). The cluster or block size remains at a constant number of sectors after being initialized during the formatting of the file system. In general, most operating systems try to store the data in a contiguous way so as to minimize data fragmentation. The seek time of mechanical drives is significant for writing and reading data to/from a hard disk, so that's why it's important to keep the fragmentation to a minimum level.
When a file is deleted, the meta-information about this file (file name, date/time, size, location of the first data block/cluster, etc.) is lost; for example, in an ext3/ext4 file system, the names of deleted files are still present, but the location of the first data block is removed. This means the data is still present on the file system, but only until some or all of it is overwritten by new file data.
To recover these lost files, PhotoRec first tries to find the data block (or cluster) size. If the file system is not corrupted, this value can be read from the superblock (ext2/ext3/ext4) or volume boot record (FAT, NTFS). Otherwise, PhotoRec reads the media, sector by sector, searching for the first ten files, from which it calculates the block/cluster size from their locations. Once this block size is known, PhotoRec reads the media block by block (or cluster by cluster). Each block is checked against a signature database which comes with the program and has grown in the type of files it can recover ever since PhotoRec's first version came out.
If PhotoRec has already started to recover a file, it stops its recovery, checks the consistency of the file when possible and starts to save the new file (which it determined from the signature it found).
If the data is not fragmented, the recovered file should be either identical to or larger than the original file in size. In some cases, PhotoRec can learn the original file size from the file header, so the recovered file is truncated to the correct size. If, however, the recovered file ends up being smaller than its header specifies, it is discarded. Some files, such as *.MP3 types, are data streams. In this case, PhotoRec parses the recovered data, then stops the recovery when the stream ends.
When a file is recovered successfully, PhotoRec checks the previous data blocks to see if a file signature was found but the file wasn't able to be successfully recovered (that is, the file was too small), and it tries again. This way, some fragmented files can be successfully recovered.
Digital camera media, or any other computer storage, tries to store files contiguously, in one chunk. However, it is not always possible. As files are written and deleted from the media, free space gets fragmented, and eventually there is no single free gap large enough to fit the entire file in. Once this happens, subsequent files are stored in several non-adjacent chunks. This is called fragmentation.
Since 2002 or so, ZAR uses the simple header-footer algorithm to do its digital image recovery. This algorithm only recovers contigouos files; fragmented files are only recovered partially or come out distorted. Fragmented image files come out distorted or missing their bottom parts. Fragmented video files typically won't open at all.
How big is the problem? On a typical digital camera media, 10% to 20% of image files are fragmented, and about half of videos are fragmented. Media after some heavy use, like in dash cam recorder, may well have all video files fragmented.
To deal with that, I have developed a standalone software, which is by now more complex than ZAR. ZAR is still free for image recovery, and will still recover 80% to 90% of the image files for you. However, if this is not enough, or if you have a problem with fragmented videos, you can try my other (paid, not free) product, Klennet Carver.
Took a ton of pictures today on vacation. I was able to view them on the camera itself after taking them. Got home, put memory card in my computer, pictures weren't there. Put memory card back in camera, pictures were gone from there too. What the heck?!
I tried running a data recovery tool to no avail. The files it found for me were all old pics. Nothing from today's date so I did not pay the money to recover them. All pictures from yesterday and before are still there.
My brother tried multiple recovery programs and had success with ZAR v. 9.2 (they have newer versions...this is just the one he happened to have from a recovery attempt on his phone a year or so ago). ZAR is the only one that was able to search deeper into the memory card and found all the pics.
Interestingly enough, there were 172 pics that were lost and when he checked them all for recovery and began the process, a progress bar showed on the screen. The first 171 pictures took just a few minutes and only about 1/3 of the progress bar. When it got to picture 172, it took another 10-15 minutes and the remaining 2/3 of the progress bar. Things that make you go hmmm...right?
So, after having them all saved to a folder on his desktop he went to transfer them to a flash drive for me to move them over to my computer and when it got to picture 172, the flash drive balked and said "no room..." This prompted him to investigate further and he discovered that that 172nd picture was 8 GIGS which explains why that last picture took so long during the recovery process! Don't know if that weirdness happened when the recovery was being done or if the memory card is the one that did that and which caused this whole mess in the first place.
Either way, I can't trust the card anymore and now don't trust the brand either. Without knowing what caused the problem in the first place, I'm going back to Transcend and hoping that sticking with a more well known brand will prevent this from happening again.
Be very careful where you buy your cards because the popular brands are frequently the subject of counterfeit producers. A few years ago I bought a couple of Sandisk SD cards from the extremely large online retailer and they were clearly not real Sandisk cards. I had no problem returning them and purchased replacements from B&H which is a reliable source.
Lately even lithium coin cell batteries have become a major target of counterfeit producers and I bought a pair of replacements for my Corvette key fobs from the same place I got the counterfeit SD cards and received a pair of counterfeit batteries. Now I get my replacement batteries from my favorite industrial electronic components supplier, Mouser.
I've had this experience with Amazon "marketplace" sellers. I find you really have to double-check the seller when placing an order. I've had numerous experiences with the coin batteries. Amazon claims they shut them down but the seller will just pop up again under a new name.
I have a DF840P1 digital photo frame and I would like to export my pictures to a memory card, to my computer, to a flash drive, to pretty much anything just so I can have a back up. I lost the flash drive that I originally used to load the pictures into the picture frame and I didn't have a memory card installed when I loaded the pics. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!
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