If there are any partitions, you’ll now see a list of them. Īfter this, you’ll be asked which disk to select, so just hit enter. To do this, change directory to where the image is, and run: photorec. You should also create a folder on the destination drive for Photorec to put any recovered files in. Once you’ve got your image, you can run Photorec on it. For more detail on this step, you can look at these tutorials. If your drive is damaged, this might take a while and need several passes. To image, simply start DDRescue-GUI, and select your source drive as the input file, use a map file on the destination drive, and save the image in the folder with the map file to avoid confusion. Generally, it’s best to image the drive first, however, because read errors might make file recovery programs like Photorec choke and fail to recover files. Note that you can skip this if your source drive is in good condition.

The first step is to image the source drive, preferably to a file. Step 1: Imaging the source medium (optional) If you want to follow the tutorial exactly and not worry about installing software, head to their website (affiliate link - I earn commission for purchases made through this link) and buy a copy of Parted Magic. The USB stick had a FAT filesystem, but these steps will work on many kinds of file system. It had a few different kinds of files on it, including video files, pictures, a Windows executable, and a few different kinds of compressed archive. So, the scenario here is that we have a USB stick (or other similar storage medium), and have accidentally quick formatted it. I produced this video for Parted Magic LLC, and you can see the other videos at.

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