[aklug] Re: Data recovery with foremost

Damien Hull wrote:
> I got up this morning and reached for the black berry. In my half awake state I deleted a directory of pictures. Whoops! I remembered something I had read in 2600 about "foremost". Tried using it when my other SD card went bad. Anyway, pulled the SD card out of the BlackBerry and prepared for data recovery.
>
> STEPS
> 1. Get a mocha - need to be awake for this
> 2. apt-get install foremost
> 3. Attached usb/SD card addapter to laptop
> 4. Tried to remember how to recover bits without overwriting anything
> 5. umount the SD card - was auto mounted
> 6. fdisk -l
> 7. dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=sdimage.dd (ur device might be different)
> 8. Wait....
> 9. foremost sdimage.dd
> 10. Wait...
> 11. Search for my missing images
>
> NOTE: some steps must be done as root
>
> I'm happy to report that I was able to recover my pictures. Lost two of them. They were partially recovered. No big deal. Didn't need those two anyway.
>
> Nothing like early morning data recovery.
>
>
Thanks Damien,
Good to know for those of us with fat fingers :-D
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Received on Sun Apr 5 17:17:52 2009