Would deeper search be able to find a folder, or just specific files? If so, that might be harder than Photorec for me.
Would deeper search be able to find a folder, or just specific files? If so, that might be harder than Photorec for me.
Testdisk will find folders with the full file name if deeper search works.
Photorec only finds file extensions and may find previously deleted files also.
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That's great, thank you! I'll have to buy an external hard drive, so I'll try that ASAP and then let you know. It sounds promising. I hope deeper search works.
Alrighty! Time for some results, now that I've got the external hard drive.
Trying testdisk (analyse) for Intel, results:
Testdisk for UEFI:Disk /dev/sda - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 P EFI GPT 0 0 2 267349 89 4 4294967295
Warning: Bad ending head (CHS and LBA don't match)
No partition is bootable
Photorec for sda shows me this:Disk /dev/sda - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Bad GPT partition entries, invalid checksum.
I'm guessing that I go with 1 P EFI GPT?Disk /dev/sda - 500 GB / 465 GiB (RO) - ST9500325AS
Partition Start End Size in sectors
No partition 0 0 1 60801 80 63 976773168 [Whole disk]
> 1 P EFI GPT 0 0 2 267349 89 4 4294967295
Which shows this:
How do I designate it to save to my external hard drive? Is it one of the first two options?Please select a destination to save the recovered files.
Do not choose to write the files to the same partition they were stored on.
Keys: Arrow keys to select another directory
C when the destination is correct
Q to quit
Directory /home/xubuntu
>drwxr-xr-x 999 999 680 7-Oct-2012 01:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 60 6-Oct-2012 21:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x 999 999 60 6-Oct-2012 21:26 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 999 999 40 6-Oct-2012 21:28 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 999 999 40 6-Oct-2012 21:28 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 999 999 40 6-Oct-2012 21:28 Music
drwxr-xr-x 999 999 40 6-Oct-2012 21:28 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 999 999 40 6-Oct-2012 21:28 Public
drwxr-xr-x 999 999 40 6-Oct-2012 21:28 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 999 999 40 6-Oct-2012 21:28 Videos
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 40960 7-Oct-2012 01:55 photorec.ses
Did you mount the other directory? I do not know if xbuntu, but if you click on a folder in the file browser it will mount it.
You did create partition(s) and format them on the new drive?
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I actually don't really know what that means. Mount which other directory?
Do you mean like I did before with sudo mount /dev/sda?
And create new partitions on the external hard drive? No, how do I do that?
Depending on what type of drive you purchased, it probably is not partitioned nor formated. If an external drive it may be formated FAT32 which you do not want.
gparted & fdisk instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...gANewHardDrive
GParted partitioning software - Full tutorial
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html
Screenshots of using gparted
http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted
Partitioning basics with some info on /data, older but still good bodhi.zazen
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...data+partition
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Can I format it on another computer?
And it says on the website that if it's to be used between Ubuntu and Windows, it should be formatted FAT32. If I'm using an ext3 system, how will I later use my new external hard drive on a computer running windows?
So after I've formatted it, I should be able to find it with Photorec in order to copy the files onto it?
NTFS, not FAT32. You must be looking at a very old website or its author had some reason for using FAT32.
NTFS is preferable and readable between the two (Win installs on NTFS). Win won't read EXT* so a shared partition between the two is the easiest.
If you are backing up system then it should be LInux for permissions & ownership.
But if sharing with Windows only data NTFS is much preferred over FAT32. FAT32 has a limit of 4GB files and does not have a journel, so issues take longer to fix or may not be fixable with chkdsk.
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