[TriLUG] OT: Laptop Hard Drive

[Adam Jennings]

>
> o if I have to do an unerase, I know which sectors to ignore. However I
> haven't figured out how to recover erased files - I couldn't understand the
> instructions with sleuthkit etc - and I assume I'm never going to be able
> to use this feature.
>

Try Testdisk/PhotoRec
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Easy interface from the command line and the wiki is pretty good at
stepping you through it. I sent the link with a howto to my wife and even
though she isn't super Linux savvy (her laptop does run Ubuntu though), she
was able to recover her pictures.

Adam