Used PhotoRec on a 1tb HDD, recovered around 200000 Images

[Hyuki]

I accidentally formatted my whole drive and installed debian over it. I have recovered around 200000 images using PhotoRec and need the ones from the past two weeks, is there any way to do this? This is very important, as these images can cost me up to 50,000$

[HaQue]

If the value of these images are up to $50,000 (I assume Kim Kardashians new Egyptian maltese meerkat or something) then why were no backups existing relative to their worth? Anyway, you live & Learn.

All you can do is try a few different software packages, as there isn't anything physically wrong with the drive, a Lab probably wouldn't be able to do much more than you can do yourself.

R-Studio is 79.99 or 49.99 if NTFS (windows) Pittance in relation to the stated worth of images. http://www.data-recovery-software.net/

the other one is GetDataBack for 79 as well http://runtime.org/index.html

maybe look at this: http://www.data-medics.com/data-recovery-forum.html

But best option is use something like DMDE to take an image file, then hit your DR programs at the image, you wont mess up your drive any worse and you can keep trying different things until you have the most complete result.

Bear in mind you HAVE lost files. No way around it.

[MindMergepk]

But best option is use something like DMDE to take an image file, then hit your DR programs at the image, you wont mess up your drive any worse and you can keep trying different things until you have the most complete result.

Bear in mind you HAVE lost files. No way around it.

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[Hyuki]

Thanks for your responses, i have recovered images with a raw data recovery and i need to rename the 745000 images based on date. Is there a way to do this using the metadata in the jpg files?

[Hyuki]

Recovered all my data, currently getting rid of duplicates and also renaming files. Seems that almost all of them are there, luckily only system images were corrupted.

[fzabkar]

Try sorting and/or renaming your files by their metadata. For example, some JPEGs have date/time stamps.

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http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/After_Using_PhotoRec
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