PhotoRec is an
open source multi-platform app intended to help you recover photos from corrupted media like memory cards and even hard
drives and CD-ROMs. In addition to photos, PhotoRec can recover many other types of files, including video files,
documents, and archives (e.g. zip files). PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it'll
work even if your media's filesystem is severely damaged, and it'll work on FAT, NTFS, or ext2/3 systems. PhotoRec is a
companion program to
TestDisk, an app for recovering lost
partitions on a wide variety of filesystems and making non-bootable disks bootable again.
Tags: cgsecurity, linux, mac, memory, opensource, oss, photo, photorec, photos, recover, testdisk, windows
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Subscribe to commentsRafael G. GoesApr 8th 2008 10:54PM
Really helpfull... my pen-drive FAT table was lost but the program managed to recover all files - at least those I remember of. just GREAT!
MiSjEkJul 10th 2008 6:25PM
Yeah !!
The sd-card from my mom was corrupt.
After recovering, i found over 150 pictures from holiday.
My mom will love me.
I LOVE U PhotoRec
Greetz NL
TriciaMar 18th 2006 12:33PM
Awesome. I am going to try this out, I had an old camera that had the old compact flash card go bad after a friend took all sorts of photos with it, we thought the photos were gone forever. I am going to try this out, I'll let you know how (and if) it worked.
JoycelFeb 23rd 2009 2:07PM
OH MY GOD!!!
You know what this program is a life saver to me, seriously.
I had some great pics and vids that were taken in my digicam but someone accidentally deleted so I was like "OMFG! OMFG! OMFG! What am I gonna do now?!". Then after that, I did all my very best to search on the internet how to recover files from digicam and... VOILA! I came in to some site with PhotoRec and it totally did save my whole life. I know this is like over-acting. But really, I can't think of how i'm so thankful that I found/discovered PhotoRec. If only I could donate, I really would. But i'm really thankful with PhotoRec and I won't forget this program for the rest of my life.
PS - I'm really serious.