PhotoRec – Recover Deleted files

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Recover your deleted files in Linux

PhotoRec software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks. Normally when you remove file accidentally, its meta data is gone, but actual file data is untouched inside the file system, until the location of the data is overwritten by other file data. We can recover deleted files on Linux through this PhotoRec and TestDisk tools.

TestDisk and PhotoRec run under:

  •     DOS/Windows 9x
  •     Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7
  •     Linux
  •     FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
  •     Sun Solaris
  •     Mac OS X

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures from digital camera memory or even Hard Disks.
It has been extended to search also for non audio/video headers.

Supported file formats: video (avi, mov, mp3, mp4, mpg), image (jpg, gif, png), audio (mp3, ogg), document (doc(x), ppt(x), xls(x), html), archive (gz, zip) etc.
  Supported file systems: EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, HFS+, FAT, NTFS, exFAT

PhotoRec installation on Linux

Download latest version for your Linux server

For Linux i386, kernel 2.6.18 or later

  • cd /usr/local/src
  • wget http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.14.linux26.tar.bz2
  • tar jxvf http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.14.linux26.tar.bz2
  • cd testdisk-6.14
  • ./photorec_static

For Linux x86_64, kernel 2.6.18 or later

  • cd /usr/local/src
  • wget http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.14.linux26-x86_64.tar.bz2
  • tar jxvf http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.14.linux26-x86_64.tar.bz2
  • cd testdisk-6.14
  • ./photorec_static

Select your partition and follow that steps. For your reference check with example screen shot.

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How to recover deleted Partition Table in Linux

TestDisk, an application for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

Features

Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
Fix FAT tables
Rebuild NTFS boot sector
Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
Fix MFT using MFT mirror
Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.

Supported File Systems in Linux

Linux btrfs
Linux ext2, ext3 and ext4
Linux GFS2
Linux LUKS encrypted partition
Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2

RAID 1: mirroring
RAID 4: striped array with parity device
RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information

Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager

Download and Install TestDisk

For Linux i386, kernel 2.6.18 or later

  • cd /usr/local/src
  • wget http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.14.linux26.tar.bz2
  • tar jxvf http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.14.linux26.tar.bz2
  • cd testdisk-6.14
  • ./testdisk_static

For Linux x86_64, kernel 2.6.18 or later

  • cd /usr/local/src
  • wget http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.14.linux26-x86_64.tar.bz2
  • tar jxvf http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.14.linux26-x86_64.tar.bz2
  • cd testdisk-6.14
  • ./testdisk_static

Follow those steps to recover partition table.