Recovering deleted pictures in linux.

[Methal]

My sister did a back up and reload of the Linux side of her dual booting computer. Unfortunately she forgot the back up part of the back up and reload.

I am the family computer geek so she called me for help. I have used recuva with much success. However it does not support anything but NTFS.

What I am looking for is a similar tool to use to recover deleted files in Linux.

Anyone know of anything I might try?

 

[Shelnutt2]

First off make sure she isn't using the computer, don't boot it! (The less you override the bytes/sectors the greater chance you have of recovering it)

Try Testdisk or PhotoRec,
http://www.cgsecurity.org/

 

[Methal]

First off make sure she isn't using the computer, don't boot it! (The less you override the bytes/sectors the greater chance you have of recovering it)

Try Testdisk or PhotoRec,
http://www.cgsecurity.org/

Yes I've DLed them, and been tinkering around as much as I know how. The linux version comes with two executables. when run they just add a back ground for lack of a better word, mess. Which apparently does nothing but eat up CPU recourses.

There's got to be something simple.

 

[Shelnutt2]

Try these,

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/About

 

[Stratus_ss]

Boot a live cd and install photorc.... run photorec from the cli, it will give you a gui of sorts that is really straight forward and easy to use... good tool. I have had occasion to use it myself

 

[Methal]

Boot a live cd and install photorc.... run photorec from the cli, it will give you a gui of sorts that is really straight forward and easy to use... good tool. I have had occasion to use it myself

cli?

 

[Automata]

cli?

Command line. Bash shell. Terminal.

 

[Zerix01]

If you search Google for ext3 or ext4 undelete or file recovery it should return some simple commands for retrieving recently deleted files. I accidentally deleted a folder once on my ReiserFS3 partition and I found a file system specific command that ran for about an hour and dumped all of my recently deleted files and folders into the lost and found folder in my home directory.

 

[habbajabba]

R-studio is nice. Put the drive in question as a slave in a windows box and search for the file format you want.
There is also Giis for linux, It has a gui and it's free. Works with ext2, 3, & 4.
http://www.giis.co.in/