Recovery tools

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All recovery should be performed using live boot with read-only mounting only. Do not boot into OS where files where deleted for recovery. Latest distribution of Kali Linux should contain most of these tools pre-installed.

Tools for recovering lost files on ext3 partitions

Following recovery tools exist to help with recovery of deleted files on ext3 filesystem.

• r-linux - Gave very good output recently while trying to do a restoration of large no. of files deleted from a ext4 partition
• extundelete
• photorec
• foremost
• scrounge-ntfs
• grep for file recovery
• scalpel
• tsk_recover
• magicrescue
• ripper
• unrm
• gET iT i sAY-giis
• e2undel
• ext3undel
• autopsy
• ext4magic

Tools for renaming and sorting recovered files

• findup (from the fslint software package)
• A wikipage of suggestions - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/After_Using_PhotoRec
• jhead
• easytag

Tools for recovering deleted/formatted partitions

• testdisk

Links at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery has good information about using some of these tools.

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