Re: [Hampshire] ntfs file recovery

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Author: Dr Adam J Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] ntfs file recovery

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On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 at 11:38:59AM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.


I don't know how it works with NTFS, but it salvaged some files from
a damaged CD a friend had.

Good luck!

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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