When you’ve started PhotoRec, select the hard drive that you want to run the restore operation on and hit the enter key. To make things easy, navigate to the directory that you want to run the recovery on prior to running the command. Running PhotoRec and Begin Scanning For Deleted Filesįor this demonstration, I’ve created a random image file and deleted it.

Once the setup is complete, you can download and run the Photorec utility using the command below: sudo photorecĢ. To install PhotoRec, run the below command: sudo apt -y install testdisk It comes packaged with the testdisk utility and not as a separate package. How To Recover Deleted Files in Linux using PhotoRec?īefore we begin, we need to install PhotoRec on our Linux system.

That’s not to say PhotoRec cannot be used for other file types, you sure can. That’s why the name “PhotoRec” which is short for “Photo Recovery”. PhotoRec, on the other hand, was created to recover media files that were deleted from SD Cards and other removable media. TestDisk was created by CGSecurity to recover deleted partitions. Let’s find out how to use PhotoRec to recover deleted files. In a previous tutorial, we discussed the steps to recover deleted files using a Linux utility named TestDisk and the PhotoRec utility is created by the same company. Accidentally deleted files or photos? In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to recover deleted files in Linux using PhotoRec.

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