On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:24:13 sean wrote: > > Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system, > > accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it > > was plugged into the camera. > > > > Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in > > such a circumstance? > > > > I already told them not to use the card for anything else and to lock it. > > What kind of card? > > It's likely formatted with FAT, there's hundreds of tools for Windows that > can undelete files on FAT. I recall using such stuff written by a certain > Mr Peter Norton when I was still but a little lad...
It goes without saying that you should create an image of the card on your machine using e.g. dd, mount it using -o loop and then perform any recovery with testdisk or what not on that image. -- Regards, Mick
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