[plug] USB flash data recovery

[Andrew Furey]

On 10/6/06, Daniel Foote <freefoote at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the data is not actually scrambled on the disk (ie, the FAT is
> stuffed but the data is ok) you might be able to use something like
> Foremost (http://foremost.sourceforge.net/). Given an image of a disk,
> it will look for signatures of files inside that image (it supports
> quite a few formats) and then extracts them.
>
> I have not actually used it (solved the problem I had another way),
> but it is written by the US government for forensic recovery purposes.

Along the same lines, I've had good experiences with magicrescue
(http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/) in the past, which seems to work
reliably for at least doc, xls, ppt, jpg, png, and zip. You can also
supposedly define your own "recipes" for other file formats, although
I've never tried it.

Andrew

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