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[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 9:59 am, Sunny wrote:
> Actually, PhotoRec does not "try" to restore the file system - it
> works on mutiple filesystems (incl. a dd image :) ), and tries to
> determine a sequence of sectors (or inodes, or whatever) as a jpg or
> wmv files. For my situation it worked perfectly, but maybe on a
> fragmented FS it would not be so good, I have no way to know.
It sounds like a pretty decent program. Most recovery programs for FAT file 
systems don't try to actually recover the data, they simply update the 
directory and possibly make some changes in the File Access Table (FAT). 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
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