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Where to download PhotoRec

Click " reset” and tick only what you need. Most often this doc(MS Word documents), jpg(photos), mp3(music), zip(archives and MS Word documents). The rest is to taste.

Do not put more formats than you need. For example, if you choose the type tx?, a huge number of text documents with incomprehensible content will be found - PhotoRec considers any combination of characters that is even slightly similar to text as a separate text document. Do not confuse with MS Word documents - they have a different format.

If you choose all file types when recovering data from a slow microSD cards s memory for 32 gigabytes, you will have time to walk to the store on the other side of the city and return exactly to the completion of the restoration. Checked!

Step 3. Specify a folder to save all found files.

Click "Browse" to select a folder

Specify a folder on another drive. Not on the one from which you are restoring files!

For convenience, create a folder directly on the disk C:. Just make sure it has plenty of free space.

name the folder english letters, otherwise an error will appear Failed to create file! Please choose another destination» (« Error creating file! Choose another location«):

I do not recommend creating on the Desktop or in Documents, there will be the same error. The path to it may contain Cyrillic.

Step 4 Wait.

Click " Search» and wait. The process is not fast, stock up on coffee.

Step 5: Clean up files.

There are probably junk files. Among them are the ones you need, fully and partially restored. Most likely, those restored not 100% will not open, but you can get information from there. How - below.

Why isn't everything recovering?

When a file is deleted, the entries in the file table that point to the places physical location data - those very zeros and ones. Parts of memory (there may be several) that store the contents of the file are not overwritten entirely and immediately. They can be overwritten in a second or a year - it all depends more on the case than on the work of some algorithms. Therefore, in practice, recovered files contain pieces of information from new files, which is essentially corrupt.

The more often files are written, the higher the chance of overlap with new data. Even a seemingly harmless operation - opening a document - can cause the permanent erasure of deleted files, because auxiliary files are written (this is what Microsoft Word and a lot of other office programs).

Hence the conclusion: DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO THE FLASH DRIVE UNTIL YOU HAVE SCAN WITH RECOVERY PROGRAMS! Do not even reconnect, because Windows likes to measure the speed of flash drives to check for compatibility with ReadyBoost technology, creating a special file. Each reconnection reduces the chance of a successful recovery.

How to recover corrupted files

A damaged file contains random information and can be cut off.

I've noticed that PhotoRec seems to be discarding corrupted files. To extract absolutely everything from a flash drive, scan the program

File Repair program (many formats)

Slightly damaged photo

Resave, will open everywhere. Want to restore colors and remove shifts? Take advantage of the free JPEG Repair Shop. The program is easy to manage, there is an author's video tutorial.

Questions and answers

Will the program work for me?

Try.

Can data be recovered from MicroSD memory cards (from phone)?

Yes. Recovered from any media that connects to the computer.

Hard drive clicks, won't open. How to recover files from it?

Turn off your computer and blow to the service center! Serious problems cannot be solved at home.

The flash drive is not visible in PhotoRec.

Maybe the controller burned out. This is a service center job.

Help me recover my flash drive!

That's exactly what I'm doing with this guide.

Is it possible to recover data directly to a flash drive?

It is possible, but not necessary. It is better to save what you find in a separate folder. The TestDisk program, which is paired with PhotoRec, is designed to restore file tables immediately on the hard drive, but I personally I do not recommend this approach, especially the recovery of the file table is not the recovery of deleted files.

How to recover deleted SMS and contacts?

PhotoRec is not for that.

The program restored something, but nothing opens.

Sometimes it happens. Since Recuva and File Repair didn't help, put up with it.

Where does PhotoRec save files recovered after deletion?

Since you have such questions, you did not read my note at all. Raise your eyes, please.

Formatted flash drive, deleted important files. How to restore them?

Read my instructions (see and in order).

Results

Don't forget to watch the video on YouTube:

You can not pay big money to a service center to recover deleted files, but take on the job yourself. Household cases - deleted the file, formatted the USB flash drive - are solved once or twice. Heavy (the flash drive is not detected at all, HDD publishes strange sounds) is still the prerogative of service centers, fortunately, it happens less frequently.

Tip of the day: make backups. Burn everything valuable twice on DVD and store in different places. Real photos fade, the figure will never disappear.

Test Disk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was designed primarily to help recover lost partitions and/or restore bootable disks if the problem is caused by software, viruses, or human error (such as accidental deletion of the Partition Table). Restoring Partition Tables with TestDisk is very easy.

PhotoRec is a program for recovering lost (deleted) files (video files, documents and archives from hard drives, CDs and other media), as well as for recovering images (that's why it's called Photo Recovery) from the memory of digital cameras. PhotoRec ignores filesystems and "follows the data trail", so it will work even if the media's filesystem has been severely corrupted or formatted.

TestDisk can:

• Fix partition table, recover deleted partitions;
• Recover FAT32 boot sector from backup;
• Rebuild (reconstruct) FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector;
• Fix the FAT table;
• Rebuild (rebuild) the NTFS boot sector;
• Restore NTFS boot sector from backup;
• Restore MFT using MFT mirror;
• Define standby SuperBlock ext2/ext3/ext4;
• Restore deleted files on file FAT systems, NTFS and ext2;
• Copy files from remote FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.

TestDisk is suitable for both beginners and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery methods, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about non-bootable drives which can then be used for further analysis. Those who are already familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk handy tool when performing a restore.

File systems:

• TestDisk can find orphaned partitions for all specified file systems:
• BeFS (BeOS)
• BSD disk label (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
• CramFS, Compressed File System (compressed file system)
• DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
• Windows exFAT
• HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System (hierarchical file system)
• JFS, IBM's Journaled File System (IBM journaled file system)
• Linux ext2, ext3 and ext4
• Linux LUKS encrypted partition (encrypted Linux partition)
• Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2
• RAID 1: mirroring (mirror raid)
• RAID 4: striped array with parity device
• RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
• RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
• Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
• LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
• Mac partition map
• Novell Storage Services NSS
• NTFS (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008)
• ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
• Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
• Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
• XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

Additional information PhotoRec:

For greater security, when working with media from which you recover lost data, PhotoRec uses read-only access.
Important: as soon as the picture or desired file accidentally deleted, or you discovered a loss, stop writing files to this medium (hard drive, flash drive, floppy disk); because you can write new files to the place of the deleted ones and there will be nothing to restore. Well, accordingly, when using PhotoRec, you cannot choose the same partition from which the recovery is performed for recording recovered files.
Photorec ignores file system so it works even if the filesystem is badly damaged.

It can recover lost files from:

• fat,
• ntfs,
• EXT2/EXT3 filesystem
• HFS+

carriers
PhotoRec works with hard drives, CDs, memory cards (Compact Flash, Memory Stick, SecureDigital/SD, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, etc.), USB flash drives, DD-raw images, EnCase E01 images, and so on.
PhotoRec has been successfully tested on players such as iPods and digital cameras.
Known file formats
PhotoRec looks for known file headers. If there is no fragmentation, which is often the case, it can recover the entire file. Photorec recognizes numerous file formats including ZIP, Office, PDF, HTML, JPEG and various other formats graphic files. Full list file formats supported by PhotoRec contains over 390 file extensions.
How PhotoRec works
FAT, NTFS, ext2/ext3/ext4 - file systems for storing files in data blocks (called "clusters" under Windows). The number of clusters and their size remains a constant number after initialization during file system formatting. In general, most operating systems, try to keep the data contiguous to minimize data fragmentation. The lookup time for mechanical drives is non-zero, so it is important to keep fragmentation to a minimum.
When a file is deleted, the meta information about that file (file name, date/time, size, position of the first cluster (data block), and so on) is lost. And for example, in the ext3/ext4 file system, the names of the deleted files are still present, but the position of the first data block is deleted. This means that the data is still present in the file system, but only for a while, until all of it is replaced by new files with new data.
To recover these lost files, PhotoRec first tries to find the data block (cluster) size. If the filesystem is intact, this value can be read from the superblock (ext2/ext3/ext4) or from the boot record (FAT, NTFS). Otherwise, PhotoRec reads the media, sector by sector, looking for the first ten files, from which it calculates the block/cluster size from their location. Once the block size is known, PhotoRec reads the media block by block (or cluster by cluster). The signature of each block is verified in the database that comes with the program. It contains all types of files that can be recovered since the first version of PhotoRec came out.
For example, PhotoRec identifies jpeg file when the block starts with:
0xff,0xd8,0xff,0xe0
0xff,0xd8,0xff,0xe1
or 0xff,0xd8,0xff,0xfe
after which PhotoRec starts to restore the file. Stops recovery when it checks the integrity of the file, saves the file if possible (which is determined by the found signature).
If the data is not fragmented, the restored file must be the same size or larger than the original file. In some cases, PhotoRec can find out the original file size from the header, so the recovered file is truncated to the required size. However, if the restored file ends earlier than its header indicates, it is discarded. Some files such as *.MP3 are data stream. In this case, PhotoRec parses the received data and then stops the restoration when the stream ends.
When a file is restored, PhotoRec checks the previous data blocks, looks for file signatures there, if it finds it, it considers that the file was not successfully restored (for example, the file was too small), and tries to restore again. Thus, some fragmented files can be successfully restored.

Today, many people use a variety of file recovery programs, and Photorec is one of them. Recuva can rightfully be considered another equally effective utility for recovering deleted or lost data. But Photorec has a huge number of advantages.

Program Benefits

The main ones are as follows:

• The program can be freely and, most importantly, downloaded for free on the official website;
• The same site has complete instructions on use, and even in Russian;
• The program is really powerful, that is, it performs its main functions (data recovery) perfectly well;
• Available for all the most popular operating systems today - Windows, Linix, Mac OS and even Dos (!).

In addition, the seventh version has a simple and convenient graphical interface that allows you to perform all actions in a matter of minutes and not remember the commands that were needed before when using the console mode. By the way, there is an opinion that the function of Photorec is only photo recovery. In fact, the functionality of this program is many times greater and further, and we will see this with a specific example. As for how to use Photorec, as mentioned above, the instructions are on the official website of this program - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download , Russian version - http://www.cgsecurity.org /wiki/PhotoRec_Step by Step .

But it’s better to show all the nuances of its use with an example, if only because the above link contains instructions for the console mode. In general, we will understand all the nuances of using this program. And it all starts with downloading.

Where to download Photorec

The best way to download Photorec is from the official website of this program, which has already been mentioned above, http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download . The page is designed in the style of Wikipedia, but there is one big “Download” button on the right. Actually, all you need to do to download is to click on this biggest button.

After that, we will get to a page where there is information about the creator of this useful program and where, accordingly, he can be thanked for such a great work. But the download will still start. The archive with this program will be downloaded. In Figure 2, its appearance is shown by a red oval.

Accordingly, we need to open this archive and unpack its contents to where it will be convenient for us to use it. It is very easy to do this. The archiver has a button "Extract ...", clicking on which will select the location where the file contained in the archive will be extracted.

By the way, the archive also contains a mention of the wonderful and amazing creator of Photorec.

By the way, here you need to open a file called "qphotorec_win.exe". This is the same Photorec program file, which has a very convenient and intuitive graphical interface. A file with a different name will open a console for you. If you prefer to work the old fashioned way, read the instructions on the official website. But it's the 21st century and it's better to work with a clear interactive interface. Actually, in our instructions, we will use this very file. It looks like the one shown in Figure 4.

Clue: forDosneed to run a simple file, vLinixneed rights root user, and the launch occurs as standard - using the commandsudo. Finally, inMac OSjust need to run– if it will be launched without user rightsroot, the program will shut down and run in desired mode on one's own.

Now let's move on to using Photorec itself.

How to use

So, we have already launched the file we need. After that, you need to do the following:

• Select the desired media. To do this, click on the area that is marked with a red frame in Figure No. 5 and select the media by its letter in the drop-down list. In our example, it is marked with the letter G, so we just need to click on it. At this stage, there is absolutely nothing complicated.

• After that, you need to select the file formats that we will need to recover. To do this, click on the "File Formats" button, which is shown in Figure 6 with a red frame. Clicking this button will open the window shown with a green frame in the same figure. As you can see, there is complete list formats that the program can recover. The user will only have to tick off the formats he needs and click the "OK" button (it is there alone, it will be difficult to confuse).

• Now it remains to choose whether to search for files of selected formats on the entire flash drive or only on its individual sections. All this is selected in the area shown by the blue frame in Figure 7. The “whole disk” option is responsible for the entire drive, and below is its only partition. Of course, on more capacious media there will be more of these partitions and you can choose one of them there. You will also need to select a file system in the area shown by the green box in the same figure.

• Now it remains to choose the location where the recovered files will be saved. The “Browse” button is responsible for this (in Figure No. 7 it is highlighted with an orange frame). After clicking on it, a window opens where the user can select the desired folder. In Figure 9, you can see this very window - it is quite standard and its meaning is to simply select the desired folder and click the "Select Folder" button.

• After that, it remains only to press the "Search" button, that is, "Search". Accordingly, files of the selected formats will be searched on the selected media.

Clue: Button "Search” becomes available only after the user has completed all the steps described above, that is, selects the media, formats and folder to save the recovered files.

• Then it remains only to wait until the recovery process is completed. After its completion, you can go to the previously selected folder for the recovered files and see everything that was recovered there.

Actually, that's all you need to do. As you can see, the whole process is very simple and should not cause great difficulties with its implementation. It has already been said a little above that the program has high power in relation to its main functionality, that is, data recovery. In the course of the restoration carried out as part of the writing of this post, high power was confirmed - it was possible to recover quite a lot of files. Therefore, now we can safely say that Photorec is indeed one of the the best programs to restore files.

Instructions for using the console version can also be seen in the video below.

Deleted data recovery software is often universal. Recovers files regardless of the . Photorec is different in that it only recovers images, photos, and the like. Moreover, both images are restored in popular formats (for example, jpg), and in those that the camera itself assigns. If the memory card is damaged, you accidentally formatted it, etc., PhotoRec will help.

About the program

The program is distributed free of charge. Last update, released in 2015 - version 7, with GUI. Multiplatform utility - supported by Windows 7 and above, Linux, MacOS, etc. File systems - FAT32, NTFS, FAT16, exFAT, etc. The program interface is not familiar to Windows user. However, it is not complicated and even an inexperienced user will understand it. Recovers the following types of files from camera memory cards:

1. Archives;
2. Video;
3. Photo.

Restoring photos through the utility takes place in read-only mode. It does not actually interact with images. Thus, there is no possibility of damage during operation. Recognizes all types of files, recovers data from Nikon, Canon, Sony and other brand cameras. Can recover deleted photos from the camera in case of accidental deletion, failures and malfunctions that caused the disappearance.

Equipped with the function of previewing photos before recovery. Thanks to this, you can first view the photos and restore only the ones you need. After recovery deleted photos, the utility will prompt you to save to disk or server.

Download and install

Can be downloaded setup file photorec on a torrent or from www.cgsecurity.org. The downloaded file for Windows is an archive. Inside it is a utility (it does not require installation, and therefore the file is already working) and additional program testdisk photorec, which is used for data recovery different types, OS files, or if you lose partitions of the hard disk.

The application does not need to be installed. After downloading, unzip the files to a folder. The folder can be located in any convenient place. You need to run the software from it. Since it contains all two files various programs(both non-installable), there will be no problems with this. Launch the program with a double click and get to work.

Usage

Using the photorec program for Windows users is unusual. The program works through the console system, although latest version and has a more familiar , most users still use the console options. Working with them is similar to working with command line. To work with the program, you need to create a folder on your hard disk to which the recovered data will be sent. To recover broken photos or deleted files, follow the algorithm:

• Insert PC device. There is an effective recovery from unreadable, failed, damaged media, as well as serviceable ones if the photo was deleted by accident;
• Now launch the software. The command input console will open. Its first window lists all drives, both hard and floppy, connected to the device. Among them, focusing on the name or volume of the media, choose your memory card. Move from one disk to another using the arrows on your keyboard. By setting the selection to desired disk, press Enter;

• Choose a file system. Most often it is Other;

• In a new console window, specify the folder where the system will save the recovered files. Move the selection with the arrows. After hovering over the desired folder, click
• In the window that opens, select the field in which the folder with the files to be restored is selected. Find the one you need, go to it using the arrows, press C. It is in it that the directories that will be restored from the damaged card will be saved;

It is important that the memory card cannot be a save location. If memory cards are being recovered, then the files must be saved to the PC and vice versa;

• The recovery process begins. Wait for it to finish and check if the recovered data has appeared in the folder. Depending on the number of files, their weight, and other factors, the process may take different times.

Sometimes this utility gives best result than analogs. If none special settings was not carried out, then not only the files on the card immediately before formatting are restored, but also some of those deleted earlier. The instruction for photorec does not involve choosing a time interval for recording recovered files, and therefore this function works by default. Everything that can be restored.

PhotoRec 7.0

PhotoRec free download in Russian

PhotoRec - powerful program allowing you to recover lost files on memory cards, hard drives, CDs. Recoverable file formats are graphic (.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tiff, .bmp, .png), audio, office documents. PhotoRec free download You can use the direct link at the bottom of the page.

Program features:

• work in various operating systems (DOS, Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix);
• wide format of recoverable files;
• recovery of files damaged by viruses;
• call from the command line;

PhotoRec uses read-only access during operation, which reduces the risk of damage to recovered files.

Working with the program is quite simple - at startup, you must select the partitions on which files are supposed to be restored, and determine the settings. The default settings are optimal for the recovery process.

PhotoRec free download

Download PhotoRec for free PhotoRec official website. Our site keeps track of all software updates to ensure you have the latest version of PhotoRec.

PhotoRec free download in Russian

Attention!
The official website has only the English version of the program! The Russian version of PhotoRec lies on unofficial sites and is made by enthusiasts. For safety, check PhotoRec files in Russian with an antivirus program!