[SGVLUG] Anyone with experience recovering data from flash memory(camera card)

[Jeff Keys]

Glad it helped. Your rupees are better spent on vindaloo or thumb
drives. Considering how well it can recover files from a drive that's
had the file system corrupted, a few file headers corrupted, been
wiped, and reformatted, ( the test cases at
http://dftt.sourceforge.net/ ), it's worth having in your quiver.

Jeff

On 4/15/06, Tom Emerson <osnut at pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 April 2006 5:47 am, Jeff Keys wrote:
> > Here is a link to an article about a forensics program called Foremost
> > that can be used to recover specific file types, i.e., JPEG. It should
> > be able to do that even if the file system is damaged. It's a Linux
> > program, available at sourceforge:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/foremost/
>
> I think you just saved me about 1980 rupees... [that's $43 at the latest
> conversion rate...]
>
> It works, in fact it almost works too well -- some of the files I had on the
> camera were .AVI files, and as I told the program to only extract jpg files,
> it found and extracted /each frame/ as a separate jpg!
>
> (it also seems to be finding the "thumbnail" pictures embedded within the
> photos, however they are all blank...)
>
>