PhotoRec
PhotoRec is a data recovery software tool designed to recover
lost
files from digital camera memory (CompactFlash, Secure Digital,
SmartMedia, Memory Stick, Microdrive, MMC, DD rw image, USB flash
drives etc.), hard disks and CDs/DVDs.
It recovers most common photo formats, including JPEG, and
also
recovers audio files including MP3, document formats such as Microsoft
Office, PDF and HTML, and archive formats including ZIP. It has been
extended to search also for non audio/video headers.
The software recovers files from ext2, ext3, FAT, NTFS and
HFS+ filesystems.
PhotoRec is shipped with TestDisk.
Features include:
- Intuitive interface
- Software still recovers images even if the file system has
been badly damaged or formatted
- Searches for a wide variety of formats including:
- Video: Macromedia (.flv), MOV video (.mov), Moving
Picture
Experts Group video (.mpg), Macomedia Compressed Flash (.swc)
- Graphics: BMP bitmap (.bmp), Canon Raw picture (.crw),
Canon catalog (.ctg), Nikon dsc (.dsc), JPEG picture (.jpg), Minolta
Raw picture (.mrw), Olympus Raw Format picture (.orf), Portable Network
Graphics (.png), Raw Fujifilm picture (.raf), Contax picture (.raw),
Rollei picture (.rdc), Tag Image File Format (.tiff), Sigma/Foveon X3
raw picture (.x3f)
- Audio: Sun/NeXT audio data (.au), MP3 audio (MPEG ADTS,
layer
III, v1) (.mp3), Real Audio (.rm), RIFF audio/video (.avi/.wav),
Microsoft ASF (.wma), FastTrackerII Extended Module (.xm)
- Archive: Archive (.ace), bzip2 compressed data (.bz2),
Tar archive (.tar )
- Other: Source code written in C (.c), FAT subdirectory,
HTML page (.html), Microsoft Office Document (.doc), MSOffice "Open"
XML
(.docx, .pptx, .xlsx), Portable Document Format (.pdf), Perl script
(.pl), Quickbooks (.qbb and .qbw), Registry config file (.reg), Rich
Text Format (.rtf), RPM package (.rpm), Shell script (.sh), zip
archive (.zip)
- Compatible with Linux, DOS, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, Mac OS X, and SunOS
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