Comments on: PhotoRec Sorter

By: beyondokc

beyondokc — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:22:18 +0000

I love this utility, sorely needed and much appriciated.. a timesaver.

By: Louis

Louis — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:22:10 +0000

cable-up the drive and right click any and all associated drive letters and perform quick format(s). Then photorec.

By: Suresh

Suresh — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:33:59 +0000

Here I will describe my problem.
I have an external HDD of 250 GB( Maxtor Basics Portable). It doesn’t have any partitions. It contains around 190 GB data saved from Windows format. and 40 GB free space. Due to the internal HD failure, I had loaded opensuse (linux) in th eremaining free space of 40 GB and booted through it. During opensuse installation it has used 2.0 GB for swap and 20 GB for primary and Linux works well. After installing new Internal HD, I loaded Windows 7 and I connected the external HD and it is showing No data at all. I checked through Disk management, there it showing 22 GB of other file system and 210 GB of unallocated space. First I thought the problem is due to Linux files and then I formatted the 22 GB space( Linux). After Formatting it is showing 22 GB (NTFS. Healthy (Active)) and 210 GB(Healthy, unknown partition). I used PhotoRec to recover the data. I got some data back but not all. I have many pdf files on the hard disk but it didn’t recover any pdf files. Then I used TestDisk to recover the partitions and now it is showing ONE linux swap partition , ONE linux primary partition of large size and ONE HPS-NTFS partition of small size. I tried to recover the HPS-NTFS partition but it showing only System Volume Information. I did’nt get any data.

Please Help me in this regard, How to get my 190 GB windows data back as it contains some important personal information and Some good books.

Plz help..
Thanks in advance..

By: Suresh

Suresh — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:29:33 +0000

After recovery it is not showing any .pdf files. Only following formats have been recvored..
txt,
gif,
tx?,
jpg
png
doc
tz
png

By: Suresh

Suresh — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:25:10 +0000

Works great…. but in my case it has not recovered the pdf files. It is showing all the files as txt files…

Any suggestion on how to get my pdf files back? Please help as I have lots of data in pdf format…

By: Yippie Ya Yeah | artlog

Yippie Ya Yeah | artlog — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:37:11 +0000

[...] aber das kann so schlimm nicht mehr werden. Wem ähnliches widerfährt, dem empfehle ich Photorec, PhotoRec Sorter, Namexif und schließlich den guten alten TotalCommander – idealer Weise in dieser [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:39:11 +0000

I am having the same issue. Folders created, but files not moved. I am using Windows 7.

By: Востановление данных с убитого HDD

Востановление данных с убитого HDD — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:38:07 +0000

[...] рассортировать файлы по типам. Для этого пригодится PhotoRec Sorter (скачать). Запускаем PhotoRec_Sorter.exe в той папке, в которой [...]

By: g

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:04:58 +0000

wow! this is just magic…all i did was run the sorter where the rec_dir folders are and voila! all the files are sorted…it seems like its a codebreaker though while it was running…lol….thank you guys!..

By: sam

sam — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:33:41 +0000

Thank you! Actually the way the script works it generates the folder names from the files that exist in the “recup_dir” folders so there is no need to maintain a list of possible file extensions.

-Sam