PhotoRec
#Incident Management#Digital Forensics
A library to access the Windows New Technology File System (NTFS) format with read-only support for NTFS versions 3.0 and 3.1.
PhotoRec: Free and Open-Source Data Recovery Software
PhotoRec is a free, open-source, multi-platform file data recovery software. It is specifically designed to recover lost files, including videos, documents, and archives. You can retrieve these files from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and also recover lost pictures from digital camera memory.
It Bypasses the File System
It bypasses the file system and targets the underlying data, allowing it to function even when the media's file system has been significantly damaged or reformatted.
PhotoRec is compatible with a wide range of operating systems, including DOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X.
It can recover lost files from various file systems
It can recover lost files from FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, HFS+, and other file systems.
Important: While using PhotoRec, it is crucial not to save any additional pictures or files to the same partition where the lost data was stored. Doing so may overwrite the lost data, making recovery impossible.