For any data recovery experts out there...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:40:14PM -0400, Ted wrote:
> yup i did the dd first too. until i found the share ware, i was
> going to scan the bytes for jpg headers and try to get bytes back to
> jpg's.
> since it likely did a quick-format, most of the bytes of the
> pictures are on there, and most likely sequential.
> I actually looked at the raw bytes in a program and saw the jpg
> images, but saw breaks in the data, probably disk blocks,
> but then i googled, found that program, and it did its thing. Email
> me if you don't have luck find program, and i can see if i still
> have it,
> it was 2 years ago, so its not fresh in my mind.
> When you do dd, look at the bytes with od (or similar), make sure
> its not a 0's or some identical patterned  data, i.e. 0x80, or
> whatever,
> that means it did a full format, then your SOL.

The photorec tool in the testdisk package (at least on Debian) does
an excellent job searching for jpeg headers in a broken disk image,
including even merging fragmented files by finding disk blocks that fit
together to form valid images.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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