recover deleted files

[Wes James]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:15 PM, John R. Sowden
<jsowden at americansentry.net>wrote:

>  On 11/15/2013 09:55 AM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>
> On Nov 15, 2013 11:09 AM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I did not ask for files to be deleted from the external hard drive but
> they
> > > are gone!  Any recommendations for programs to use to try to recover
> them?
> > > I have a computer with Ubuntu 13.10, nice fast HP laptop, and a
> netbook that
> > > is pretty quick with 12.10.  The HD is a Toshiba.  I had FAT on there
> as the
> > > drive is used also by a windows box.
> > >
> > > Appreciate any advice.
> > >
> > >
> > > gary
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.linux.org/threads/undelete-files-on-linux-systems.4316/
>
> sudo apt-get install photorec
>
> Originally developed to recover photographs, photorec now is a very good
> complete file recovery tool.
>
>
>  just for gp I decided to install protorec.  This is what happened:
>
> john at sentry10:~$ sudo apt-get install photorec
> [sudo] password for john:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package photorec
>
> John
>

As was mentioned before, it is part of the testdisk package.  You can
google some info about it. Here is one link:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

-wes
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