

Note: PhotoRec is included in testdisk, so you'll no need to install photorec separately. Then, We'll gonna install testdisk which includes the package PhotoRec in it.


It differs by distro used: sudo apt-get update Installing PhotoRecįirst we'll need to update our repository index using the command below, I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) so I will go for sudo apt-get update. Here are the steps that you'll need to follow to use photorec to recover data from the memory device: 1. Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem.Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock.Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup.Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup.Fix partition table, recover deleted partition.
