Data recovery?

[Fester Bestertester]

Is there a Linux data recovery program? Retrieving data from an NTFS partition? There are Windows tools, but are there Linux equivalents? (Get Data Back - alike would be welcome )

[Snowhog]

Is this post related to https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...e-by-Windblows?

Again, take a look at https://askubuntu.com/questions/8431...n-unsafe-state

[Fester Bestertester]

Sort-of, Snowhog. I tried to resize a partition (I've done it before), but it didn't go to plan. The unsafe one was another.
Cheers
FBt

[Qqmike]

And, of course, we have TestDisk and PhotoRec, right? Both Linux tools ...
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

If you simply messed up moving a partition, I would think that TestDisk could put that back together. And PhotoRec should be able to find most, if not all, missing files.

[GreyGeek]

A few years ago I used PhotoRec to recover 1500 files & photos from a corrupted directory on a WinXP or Win7, I can't recall which OS it was. I booted a 64GB USB stick containing Kubuntu 12.04 and used dd to create an img file of the bad directory on the USB stick. I used PhotoRec 0.9 to scan the img and save recovered files to a directory on the USB stick (it was persistent). According to the person who owned the PC I recovered their thesis and all supporting documents and photos, and all the trip and family photos except for four. She had spent a couple weeks letting various people try and asked me just two weeks before she was to present her thesis to the committee.
I just let the program run over night. She had to go through the files and give them proper names, which was no small task.

[Fester Bestertester]

Thank, both ... Will be trying those.
Cheers
FBt