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recuperation wrote: 28 Feb 2020, 18:12 No. That's why defragmentation determines the recovery success.

So if a file's data is written in non contiguous blocks it is not recoverable by this the magic number method?

Fingerprinting, ("magic numbers") is a fantastic generalized concept that enables recovery in cases of extreme destruction where metadata (p.e. inodes) is lost. It can be easily extended to new formats.
Beside PhotoRec which appears to me as the most powerful one according to independent third ...

You don't need PhotoRec for that.
You just produce files as combinations of all available clusters. Unfortunately that number of files is already bigger than the numbers of atoms in the universe.


That sounds intimidating. I'm under the assumption that a programmer would just need to create a ...

What was the filesystem type of your partition ? ext2/3/4, xfs ?
PhotoRec only works with magic bytes.


It was ext4.

I'm a bit confused after reading up on ext4 inodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode In order to find the data associated with the magic bytes of a specific file it must read ...

My partition table is toast, but the actual area where files exist has not been touched.

I tried testdisk but it says the superblock is corrupted so I was unable to recover the partition and see the files.

I tried photorec and it brought back every file except my binary files that have no ...