Monday, May 18, 2009

Forensic Computer Tools

PhotoRec proved to be a huge help.
Some one whiped thier hard drive, but as all should know it's difficult to really erase everything off your hard drive; so I used PhotoRec a free open source tool used to recover lost files. It will recover picture files, web files, word proccessing documents and more.

2 comments:

Rob Ellis said...

I just used "photorec" to retrieve all of my files off my 320GB External HDD that had been formatted.

Maycee said...

Fab find! I've been looking out for a reliable data recovery freeware, but some that I have seen are potentially laid with malware/spyware. No problems for you then?

Thanks for the tip, Rob! (: