advice for data recovery

[Waleed Harbi]

Try Scalpel
http://www.digitalforensicssolutions.com/Scalpel/
or Foremost
http://foremost.sourceforge.net/

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to recover .jpgs that were on a SATA drive that was formatted
> by
> mistake. No backup of course. Foremost has done a wonderful job of
> recovering
> several tens of thousands of files. Unfortunately many of them are either
> irrelevant (cached web fragments, etc.) or damaged. The most common type of
> damage is shown when trying to view them in Nautilus, when I get a message
> saying, "unsupported marker type."
>
> It seems about 30% - 40% of the files recovered are damaged in this way.
>
> They aren't my images and I am not able to gauge what is worthwhile or not
> but
> I would like to do some triage by only considering those of a certain
> minimum
> size (easy to do) and not damaged (no idea.)
>
> So does anyone know of a program I can use to only copy files that are not
> damaged? I can sort out the teenies, but don't see how to proceed after
> that.
>
> TIA.
>
> Dave
>
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