One of my neighbours came to me a couple of days ago with a problem… he’d lost his CV to a windows virus and had no backup. So I said I’d try to recover the file for him. A quick google led me to Foremost. I chose foremost because it’s small, fast and easy to use. Since this was a file recovery operation, I decided to minimize the risk of the deleted file being overwritten by creating a disk image of the pen drive. A quick
dd if=/dev/sdb of=recover.iso
did the trick.
Then it was a simple matter of
sudo apt-get install foremost
to install foremost and then…
foremost -t doc recover.iso
The ‘-t doc’ parameter tells foremost to look for only Microsoft Word files. About a minute later, the thing was done and the files were back. For what it’s worth, if you... ... leer más en >>> odzangba.wordpress.com
