
We then chose a directory for the recovered files and started the process. It then asked for filesystem type where we chose “Other” because flash is formatted FAT by default. PhotoRec didn’t find any partitions, so we opted to search the “Whole disk”. We selected “Intel” as the partition table. We were prompted to select which volume we wanted to recover.

We plugged in the card and launched PhotoRec. We used it from the command line on OSX, but it works on many different platforms.

PhotoRec is designed to recover lost files from many different types of storage media. This looked like the perfect opportunity to try out ’s PhotoRec. It was out of her digital camera, and when plugged in, it wasn’t recognized.

A coworker approached us today with a corrupted SD card.
