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by DaveJohnstone
19 Feb 2018, 11:40
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Filename Recovery
Replies: 0
Views: 1600

Filename Recovery

Before creating some custom signatures, the photorec.log gives me some original filenames:
Analyse
P Unknown 0 0 1 311 53 14 4999568
Pass 0 (blocksize=512) STATUS_FIND_OFFSET
* 0-4999567: (null)
4999568 sectors contains unknown data, 0 invalid files found and rejected.
blocksize=32768, offset ...
by DaveJohnstone
18 Feb 2018, 11:32
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Recovering DOS Executables
Replies: 2
Views: 1911

Re: Recovering DOS Executables

Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any other identifier for nailing a DOS executable so I did create the simple MZ signature earlier and ran Photorec again. This signature has given me a further 73 files to try after I manually exclude ones with "This program requires Microsoft Windows" or ...
by DaveJohnstone
16 Feb 2018, 12:55
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Recovering DOS Executables
Replies: 2
Views: 1911

Recovering DOS Executables

I have an image of a DOS disk which had bad sectors on it and it does not mount. I imaged it with ddrescue, Photorec discovered 2 partitions on the image and has recovered many files including custom image files (set up in photorec.sig) and many .exe files but only windows exe files. Is there a ...