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nixnotwin
Asked: 2011-03-23 03:19:27 +0800 CST

Tool for recovering deleted data from a flash drive

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What is the best tool for recovering deleted data from a flash drive (pen drive)?

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    1. TestDisk

    find lost partitions and data for External and Internal Drive for all of these file systems, ext2, ext3, ext4 and encrypted partition. for windows FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 and NTFS boot sector.

    For Recovering data from external Hard drive
    Type testdisk on your terminal and follow this well written step TestDisk Step-By-Step

    For Recovering files from internal and External hard drives there is PhotoRec which comes with TestDisk.

    type photorec on your terminal

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    Select your drive and hit enter to proceed and follow the instruction.

    1. Extundelete

      extundelete is a utility that can recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 partition

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  2. The Ubuntu Wiki has an excellent page on Data recovery.

    I've recently used the command line tool foremost for recovering 9000 photos off a SD card.

    1. Install foremost: sudo apt-get install foremost
    2. Mount and create the target directory for storing recovered data, make sure it's large enough to hold the data. I assume it's located at /media/backup/recover now.

    3. Assuming your flash drive to be named /dev/sdb, run:

      sudo foremost -i /dev/sdb -o /media/backup/recover
    4. Do something else, it might take a while to read and recover the data over USB.

    (source: DataRecovery - Foremost)

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  3. recoverjpeg works perfectly for a formatted USB disk / thumb drive.

    1. Install recoverjpeg: sudo apt-get install recoverjpeg -y

    2. Recover the pics

      $ sudo recoverjpeg /dev/sdc -o ~/recover_usb/

      Restored 1056 pictures

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