Re: digital forensics - recovering images from a memory card with trashed file system

[Micha <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:06:51 +0000
"thveillon.debian" <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com> 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.
> 

Thanks, you saved my @ss. Photorec did the job whithout a hitch. Took the
windows programs half an hour to find nothing. Photorec found all the lost
images in 2 minutes.

> Tom
> 
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