use left to get out of /home/username, then down to /media, right and down to reach dir
select directory to rescue files to: use left/right arrows to go up/down dir treeĮ.g. choose rescue from freespace or whole disk. choose partition on disk (and also file options -search for extensions). So in comes photorec, packaged with testdisk, for recovering from FAT format disks -and also from ext3/ext4 and NTFS. combine them?Īfter recovering files from my removable drive (see on the left) I realised that there were some videos yet to be encoded from raw files -and I couldn't get those files after the restore as they were written over -luckily I remembered I hadn't used the SD card much since then, but I had just formatted it. 
If you try to split the process between different target directories it will be impossible using a wildcard extension, you'd have to use inode ranges, I'd say. If you cancel the terminal with the process going, you can restart with exactly the same command and dir location and the process will skip all the files already recovered -it won't write over them, or it can't. change permissions to user for undeleted files if necessary undelete with inode range, to a destination dir Sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sdb1 -u -msomething\*.MTS -d /media/VIDEOĩ. Sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sdb1 -u -m *.MTS -d /media/VIDEO undelete with wildcard extension (will recover ALL files with the ext), to a destination dir with -d switch Sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sdb1 -u -m 0032.MTS -fĨ. Sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sdb1 -m something\*MTS -f Sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sdb1 -m something\* -f list files with something in the filename, available for undelete list files of certain type available for undeleteĥ. (note: you might need to adjust the scroll lines of the Terminal to a few thousand to show long lists)Ĥ. list files available for undelete - might need the force option -f Note: ntfsundelete is installed with the package ntfs-3gĢ. My drive was NTFS so I'll show how that works. The deleted files have to be copied to a different partition than the one they were on, and the one recovering from must be unmounted. One thing I need to watch out for is when an external drive is not present and an app needs to access it, say for a DVD project, it will create the partition somewhere locally and carry on! Then inserting the external drive makes another entry with a _ after it in /media -it was when I tried removing the phony local version of the drive that it decided to take out loads of real data with it (but left some), and I still can't understand how because I had already unplugged the drive.įortunately I had just enough space around on different drives to rescue everything. 
Today I managed to wipe 200Gb of very important data off an external drive. So if something goes wrong you should make a rescue op immediately. You can "undelete" wiped files from Linux partitions (ext3/ext4) and NTFS -so long as you haven't been using the partition and stored new files over the lost ones.
In Linux it's easy (relatively, if you act quickly) to reclaim files that have been wiped from disk -because really they are still there but their names are gone and their inodes have been offered for new files to be stored in their place. This might save your life one day (or the life of some files you removed bypassing the trash!)
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