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... if PhotoRec is unable to find it (you are not starting photorec from the same directory) ...


Thank you for your reply. I will try this again. I haven't touched my hdd past two month because I wasn't sure what to do.

Do you know how can I look for browsers bookmarks? what file format should ...

cgrenier wrote: 06 Dec 2017, 07:28 The current location will be listed at the end of the second line. Remove all old sector range, this way PhotoRec will not jump backward.

What do you mean by this? I thought it is okay for PhotoRec to jump backward when it finds a new file.

cgrenier wrote: 07 Jul 2018, 10:52 As Stop is already selected, you only had to press Enter.
You should be able to resume the recovery if you restart PhotoRec.

I restarted my PC but when I opened the terminal, PhotoRec started a NEW scan.

How can I resume the scan after restarting the computer?

The number of files recovered should increase before PhotoRec jumps back, so PhotoRec shouldn't be really stuck.
If there are bad sectors, it can be very time consuming, so it may be best to clone the disk before using PhotoRec. You can use ddrescue as described in https://www.cgsecurity.org ...

Let's say I am over 100 hours into a scan and it needs to run for 100 more hours, but I really need to turn off linux without losing all the progress.

It seems to be possible to start a scan from any sector using the "expert mode", but it seems every time PhotoRec finds a file, it goes back and re ...

Hi, did you find any answer? I have a similar problem and I had to use PhotoRec which is not ideal for me.