Re: digital forensics - recovering images from a memory card with trashed file system
thveillon.debian wrote:
> Micha a écrit :
>> After my camera died on a recent trip I bought a new one (nikon s52 if it
>> helps). Due to some bug and bad timing on button presses the camera
>> trashed the file system somehow. Based on the number of images it can
>> write to disk it seems that the images are still there, but what I see
>> under the directory is some directories with trashed file names that
>> can't be used and some files with a size of 1TB that are junk (on a 2GB
>> card).
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to rescue the images (jpegs) if possible. I tried
>> rstudio under windows but it only found some AVIs but not the images (at
>> least using the basic settings).
>>
>> Are there any programs (linux, windows or mac) that may be able to
>> recover the images, or any other way to do it?
>>
>> It was a new (and formated) card so that there is a chance that the
>> images written in some order but I don't know enough about this hardware.
>>
>> The card is a 2GB transcend secure digital (sd)
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> with Linux I guess Tesdisk and Photorec are your best bet, photorec did
> a great job for me once. With windows and Mac I guess products from
> diskinternals.com and prosofteng.com can do a similar job through a nice
> gui, but they don't come for cheap.
> If you want win/mac freeware just have a look on softpedia.com.
>
> Tom
>
>
why don't try a card reader
regards
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