Category5 Technology TV - Recovering Photos from a Bad Camera Card Using Free Software

Recovering Photos from a Bad Camera Card Using Free Software

S05E40
June 26, 2012

Whether you've accidentally deleted photos from your camera or have a corrupted filesystem on a camera card, learn to recover your precious photos with free software.

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{play 46:31}Feature: Recovering photos from your digital camera card using the free photorec tool.
Installing photorec on Linux using the testdisk metapackage.
Using photorec to recover images and other files from your camera card, hard drive or flash media using a sector-by-sector (partition agnostic) scan.
Recovering photos of Hillary's girl band, and dressed as Kermit the Frog... and the explanation behind the madness.

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