![]() ![]() There are Linux versions of TestDisk but I have only used the Windows version. TestDisk was able to recover all the contents, even though Windows showed the device to be empty and so did other recovery programs. I had one case where, as a result of an acrimonious relationship breakup, one ex-partner had maliciously formatted (probably using a Windows “quick format”) all their ex-partner’s USB backup devices containing personal records. These are cases where other high-profile utilities that you can pay money for found nothing, no files, or found something but were unable to recover anything, even with a so-called “deep scan”. The interface is very basic, and it may take a little effort to run it properly, but I have been amazed at how good it is at recovering files from corrupted or dead USB keys and it should do the same for your SD memory card. I have only ever used it under Windows, where you have to run it as a command line utility. I think TestDisk originally designed for recovering corrupted images from camera memory cards. I have tried a number of flash memory recovery and file recovery utilities and found all of them to be unhelpful except for one with the unlikely name of TestDisk available from ![]()
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