The program identifies file types using signatures which it compares to the beginning of each data block on the drive.Ī technical explanation of how that is done in detail is provided on the official site. The scan may take a while depending mostly on the size and speed of the disk. Once done, hit the search button and wait until the process completes.If you want, click on File Formats to disable file types you don't want recovered.Make sure it is not located on the same disk that is being processed by PhotoRec. Set a destination folder for recovered files.Select whether you want to scan unallocated space only (that is free space), or the whole partition / disk.Select one of the available partitions from the list or pick whole disk if you want all of the disk scanned regardless of partition (and thus drive letters).Either use the size of the disk as an indicator or its label (PhysicalDrive0 is the first internal drive for instance). Note that drive letters are not shown by the program.

Select the correct disk from the menu at the top.To recover photos or other supported file types now, do the following: This launches the graphical user interface that you see on the screenshot above. If you are a Windows user, extract the contents of the archive afterwards on your system and run qphotorec_win.exe. To get started, download the latest version of TestDisk & PhotoRec from the official website.

The main advantage of the graphical user interface is that it makes things a tad easier as you don't have to navigate the available options on the command line anymore. The most recent version of the program ships with a graphical user interface which you can use instead for that. Up until now, you had to run PhotoRec from the command line to scan for deleted files that you wanted to restore on a computer system. PhotoRec, which ships with TestDisk distributions, recovers specific file types including many image formats but also archive and document formats. TestDisk, available for Windows, Linux and Mac systems, is a powerful tool to recover lost partitions or files supporting numerous file systems.

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