It is a cross-platform software that runs on Linux, BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD), DOS/Windows 9x, Microsoft Windows (NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7), Mac OS X, and Sun Solaris operating systems.When a computer stopped working, it doesn’t mean all the data are gone nor does it mean all the hardware are useless. In addition, the application can also recover various archive types (7z, tar and rar), many multimedia files (DCR, DSC, ASF, AU, AVI, CDR, etc.), as well as numerous office documents, including doc, sdw, sxc, odf, rtf, and many others. Supported file types and operating systems PhotoRec has been successfully tested with several popular portable media players, such as iPod, as well as the Canon EOS 10D, 60D, 300D, Casio Exilim EX-Z 750, Praktica DCZ-3.4, Nikon CoolPix 950, 775, 5700, Pentax K20D, Olympus C860L, C350N, Stylus 300, Mju 400 Digital, HP PhotoSmart 850, 620, 935, and Sony Alpha DSLR, NEX-6, DSC-P9 digital cameras. When using PhotoRec, you will be asked to choose the hard disk drive, USB thumb drive or memory card from where you want to recover the lost files, select a partition or search the whole disk, choose the filesystem type that was last used on the respective drive, and select a destination to save the recovered files. It supports the EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, exFAT, FAT, NTFS, and HFS+ filesystems. It can recover deleted data from reformatted or badly damaged digital camera memory cards, including CompactFlash, SecureDigital, Memory Stick, SmartMedia, MMC, and Microdrive. By default, it searches for JPEG, PNG, TTF, ZIP, GZ, EXE, ELF, TXT and eCryptfs headers, ignoring the rest of the filesystem.

It can’t be downloaded in a separate package, but, once installed, it has its own command. The application is distributed as part of the TestDisk software. PhotoRec (Photo Recovery) is a small and very smart data recovery command-line-driven utility that provides users with one of the best and easy to use solutions for recovering image and video files from damaged hard disk drives, digital camera memory cards, CD-ROM devices or USB flash drives.

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