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is there a photo recovery tool for lost partition except photorec becuz photorec recovers all file extensions, I really need to recover photos, please don't tell me to use testdisk, I just need photo recovery tool.

Glenn
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    Also related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/31450/tool-for-recovering-deleted-data-from-a-flash-drive and https://askubuntu.com/questions/147367/recover-data-from-a-fat32-hard-disk - there are some alternatives. – Takkat Jul 16 '17 at 08:15
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    Actually, photorec will recover whatever file extension you tell it to. If you only want jpg and png, you can tell photorec (testdisk) to only recover and search for jpg and png files. – mchid Jul 16 '17 at 09:33
  • @karel Thank's, I was just trying to let the OP know that so maybe they will give your answer a try. Also, I thought that I might get some clarification from the OP about that. – mchid Jul 16 '17 at 10:34
  • @karel this what happens when I use testdisk - https://pastebin.com/p0CYJrtv – Glenn Jul 16 '17 at 10:44
  • Can you get hold of a bigger external hard drive? (>=500GB) Or alternatively and cheaper a USB external hard drive enclosure in case you have an extra unused hard drive that you can temporarily insert into the external hard drive enclosure. – karel Jul 16 '17 at 10:51
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    i have external drive 1tb – Glenn Jul 16 '17 at 11:48

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With photorec before you start [Search] under [File Opt] you can choose the file extensions you wanna recover.

photorec is a part of testdisk project but photorec is for recoverying files while testdisk is for recovering and repairing partitions.

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  • Oh thanks I never saw it in my life you save my ass. – Glenn Jul 16 '17 at 08:14
  • I have another problem, the recovered photos resolution was messed up please help me to recover the original files :( – Glenn Jul 16 '17 at 09:07
  • @Glenn What do you mean messed up? If there was an error message, please post it. – mchid Jul 16 '17 at 09:36
  • The resolution of image I mean size become thumbnail size – Glenn Jul 16 '17 at 10:42
  • @Glenn: it will of course also recover all thumbnails in addition to the originals. You should get those from sorting according to file size. All other images may be easier to recover when renamed (e.g. according to EXIF data) – Takkat Jul 18 '17 at 13:57
  • Thank You everyone for all the answers all answers are useful now I will just need to wait until recovering files is done I'm currently booting from usb flash drive to prevent overwritting my lost files. – Glenn Jul 21 '17 at 09:54
  • This answer recovered my engagement photos that were lost on an SD card due to water from a waterfall. THANK YOU. Invaluable – Jonathan Jun 30 '18 at 10:06
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    @Jonathan, It made me happy, I wish you both the happiest memories. – Mirza Jul 13 '18 at 18:04