TestDisk PhotoRec

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QunatumQuark
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TestDisk PhotoRec

#1 Post by QunatumQuark »

I think it would be great to add TestDisk and PhotoRec to puppy 2.15! They are small programs but they are extremely good at recovering deleted files and filesystems.

Adding this functionality would allow me to use my favorite OS (Puppy) on all my techsupport rounds. It's hard to get a live CD other that puppy to boot on a legacy machine in need of data recovery.

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oops

#2 Post by QunatumQuark »

I think i posted this in the wrong part of the forum. I thought I was posting this in the 2.15 feature request section. Sorry

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#3 Post by debernardis »

I don't have a dotpup/dotpet for testdisk or photorec, but you can get similar functionality from scalpel, which allows to recover several file types and even to define new file types if you know their "fingerprints".
Scalpel-1.54: http://www.debernardis.it/dotpups/scalpel-1.54.pup
Could be good to make a dotpet of the new version 1.60.

Home page: http://www.digitalforensicssolutions.com/Scalpel/

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DotPet's TestDisk

#4 Post by QunatumQuark »

I've found the tar packages on his website works out of the box. It just gives you a directory from which you can run it ./testdisk.

I did a tgz2pet and ran it. I found the folder that created/linux and could initiate testdisk with ./testdisk. It also does well with ./testdisk bob.img type of arguments. Also photorec is part of this package.

It's so small and so powerful I think it would make a good addition of the main puppy release at minimal cost to space.

Main Download Page
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
The Beta Version is a Huge Improvement and can be Found Here
http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.7- ... ic.tar.bz2

hamoudoudou

Nothing to do with graphics, ok.

#5 Post by hamoudoudou »

Nothing to do with graphics, ok.

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#6 Post by Burn_IT »

Most commercial CDs of any OS have TESTDISK as one of the boot options BEFORE any operating system is selected.
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#7 Post by slavvo67 »

Are we really reviving posts from 2007? Well, being it's alive, I do have Testdisk / Photorec installed on every puppy/quirky that I use.

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