File Recovery Programs?

[flipjargendy]

i've been searching for a while today but it seems anything i find is a demo or i have to pay for it. Does anyone know of some good file recovery programs that will work with ext2 partitions? i lost a whole year and a half of JPG files. i am devistated.

If it runs in Windows XP or Linux i'll be happy as long as i can get my files back with it. i am currently running Kubuntu (Debian based) and Windows XP.

[felipe1982]

explore ext devices/volumes/partitions/whatever in windows I have *not* used this before, but it may help... How did you delete the files?

[flipjargendy]

Sorry i completely forgot to post that.

My partition tables got screwed up twice. Installing Gentoo, failing to i should say. Then reinstalling Kubuntu then windows. Windows screwed up my whole hard drive and i had to repartition everything.

[felipe1982]

you can try www.partedmagic.com

on it, there is a program called testdisk. One types testdisk /dev/hdx or sdx whatever device you want to work on. Then proceed through the prompts and it will help you recover your lost partitions. Sometimes, after deleting a partition, the data still remains on the device, and can (sometimes) be recovered.

[flipjargendy]

i'll give it a try. i'm using a crappy program right now in Windows called Disk Internals Linux Recovery. It's a demo and it's very slow. It seems to have found data from my ext2 partition.

i've decided to use my old desktop as a file server from now on. This is just too dangerous. i'm going to try that program you suggested. Thank you so much for replying.

[felipe1982]

if you run into trouble using testdisk, run a search on these forums

keyword : testdisk

good luck! I hope it all works out for the better!

[Franklin52]

I nerver used it before but you can give this a try:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/unrm/

Regards

[@trapine]

TestDisk/photoRec is the best for getting Jpeg's and other files back in windows and linux.
Download it here it's only 1.4 meg and pretty easy to use.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

[flipjargendy]

testdisk looks helpful. i've installed the stuff from this link: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec and it's running now. The other program i was using is junk it just listed the files and i couldn't do anything with them... well i could but it didn't work.