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
On Thursday 01 June 2006 9:59 am, Sunny wrote:
directory and possibly make some changes in the File Access Table (FAT).
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Jerry Feldman