Open Source Data Recovery Tools To The Rescue (InformationWeek)

InformationWeek has posted a lengthy look at open source data recovery tools. "The authors of TestDisk have created an excellent file-carving tool called PhotoRec, which recovers many common file formats from pretty much any type of media. This is about as essential a standalone file-recovery tool as you're going to get. I tried it out on a camera card I'd written off as wiped out after a recent trip, and managed to recover literally everything from the card -- both pictures and video. It wasn't able to recover some of the actual filenames, but the files themselves were all perfectly readable."

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