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  • Recuva: File Recovery Made Easy

    Recuva: File Recovery Made Easy

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Loosing data whether by accident or hardware failure can be painful, however in most cases if the data in question has not been overwritten a high probability of being recovered exist. While I am a user of Photorec a command line based data carving utility,...

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  • Recover deleted or formated data with PhotoRec

    Recover deleted or formated data with PhotoRec

    Posted on January 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Last updated : 01/04/09 Accidents happen for example a Flash drive that might have been accidentally formatted or certain files erased from a hard drive. The good news is that as long as the data is not overwritten there is a high margin for a...

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  • Open source tools I can’t work without

    Open source tools I can’t work without

    Posted on January 3, 2009 | 3 Comments
    Whether it’s for recovery or day to day activities open source has a lot to offer. From simple entertainment software to data recovery there are a lot of options available in the Internet. Here is a list of what I commonly use to get the...

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  • File Recovery With Photorec

    File Recovery With Photorec

    Posted on July 23, 2007 | No Comments
    Recovering files from an accidental erase or format should not be that hard, I use a tool call Photorec it makes wonders it will even recover files that have been deleted previously. I decided to use a USB flash drive for testing because its only...

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