James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Does anyone know any tools that can recover files on an ntfs
> filesystem after it has been reformatted?
>
> E.g. It would have to search the partition sector by sector and
> recover files that were on the disc, but not in the new formatted
> filesystem.
>
> I wrote a program to do this for OS/2, but I was wondering if there
> existed a Linux program for ntfs already, so I would not need to write
> one.
>
> James
>
Hello James
Photorec may help -- it doesn't just recover photographs, and I think
it's included in Knoppix.
"Photorec ignores the filesystem, this way it works even if the
filesystem is severely damaged." it says on the website,
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec.
Good luck.
Chris
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
