# In The News

### From CGSecurity

TestDisk and PhotoRec got some reviews on the Net. They are also cited in various data recovery stories.

## 2007

- Easy Flash Drive Data Recovery with PhotoRec

- Data Recovery With TestDisk HowTo

- Recover files from a flash memory card
- Data Recovery with (free) PhotoRec in OS X

By: David Pearson
Imagine my horror when I went to process the photos on my memory card only to find that they were gone. And these weren't just any photos, but rather a day's worth of before and after photos of patients (in my real life, I'm a facial plastic surgeon)...

- Data Carving with PhotoRec to retrieve deleted files from formatted drives for forensics and disaster recovery

This video introduces the concept of data carving/file carving for recovering deleted files, even after a drive has been formatted.

- How to f**k up your hard disk and how to recover it

- How to non-destructively convert dynamic disks to basic disks

- Recovering lost partitions

How to make the CEO happy by recovering his daughter’s desktop.

- Memories of a Media Card (Slashdot)

Anyone who has upgraded their digital camera probably has a few older, incompatible media cards lying around — so why not post them on Ebay? Well, if you do, be sure to properly wipe them because the digital voyeurs are watching. Seth Fogie at InformIT.com purchased a bunch of used cards from Ebay and found recoverable data on most of them. Using the freely available PhotoRec application, he was able to extract pictures, movies, and more from apparently formatted cards. The picture is clear — wipe anything that can store digital data before getting rid of it.

## 2006

- Stealing Your Family Vacation: Memories of a Media Card
- Photorec - Ultimate file recovery tool
- PhotoRec: a free tool to recover data from flash memory
- Photorec zachrání smazané fotky z flashky
- TestDisk & PhotoRec (Japanese)
- How to recover lost files after you accidentally wipe your hard drive

By: Shawn Hermans
Recently I wanted to make sure I had enough space to back up my home digital videos and pictures, so I purchased a new hard drive to add to my home Linux server. I moved all the files I wanted to save onto a single hard drive and repartitioned the old hard drive so I could upgrade to a newer version of Linux. After going through the process of reinstalling the operating system, I mounted the backup hard drive and discovered that it was empty. I had some how mixed up the hard drive I used to back up all the data with a hard drive that I wanted to wipe. Because I had done such a poor job of retaining backups on external media, I did not have any backups of my pictures and videos.

- Your HDD Is Missing a Slice? Try TestDisk for a change
- Testdisk saved my Ubuntu bacon
- Recovering from file system corruption using TestDisk
- FAT Recovery from hell
- TestDisk: Solution which will work in most cases
- Recuperando partições deletadas e corrigindo sistemas de arquivos corrompidos
- Install free tools to possibly recover media card files
- Récupération de données: PhotoRec

## 2005

- Beginners Guides: Flash Memory Data Recovery and Protection
- TestDisk
- JPG Recovery using PhotoRec

## 2004

- Testdisk Réparer une table de partition endommagée

## 2003

- TESTDISK, The Holy Grail
- Using the TestDisk Recovery Utility to Recover a FAT32 'Lost' Partition
- Hard Drive Data Recovery: Freeware Data Recovery Programs

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