Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/1/06, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 1:16 am, Sunny wrote:
>
> > OK, the problem is solved. This program (PhotoRec)
> > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
> > is real life saver. The guys provide 32 bit RPM, which worked smoothly
> > on my 64bit 10.0. It even worked on the dd image I created from the
> > already deleted flash card. Amazing :)
> Good. Actually, when a file is "deleted" in a FAT file system, only the
> first byte of the directory entry is changed to zero. This goes back to
> when the PC was floppy based. it makes a delete operation fast, and it also
> has the side effect of allowing easy undeletes.

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.

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Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit
operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a
2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.

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