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When PhotoRec failed to append new data to a file, it deletes the file it was writting to and displays the message "not enought free space available".
If you run "sudo ./photorec_static /log", PhotoRec may give more information about the problem in testdisk.log file.
Do you have the problem with ...

Run "df -h" and check that there are free space in the destination directory you have selected when running TestDisk.


yes: 870G available per this command/check. 1% used. I also made the target drive mounted, rwx for all users. photorec stops time & time again with message "not enough free ...

You never want your recovery source to be mounted - only connected. The target has to be mounted and must be writable, too.


my source drive partition with the files that need recovered is showing as "not active" in gparted and is not mounted per your directive. my target drive is mounted & I ...

my problem is also not that my destination file sys is FAT32. [/quote]Please do not present your assumptions as facts. FAT32 is limited to a file size of 4GB p.e. Using FAT32 can very well be a problem.

sorry for any miscom there & i totally undersand what you're saying. what i meant is that i am ...

ok well sorry about all that.
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re: my inability to mount: i am attempting to recover data from a corrupted 500GB internal ata-western digital with 3 partitions. i began & did not successfully complete Ubuntu install to this disk (presumably because of the bad sectors); however, i was able to have a ...

so i keep getting the "not enough free space" error message. now i have read many of the related forum threads on this and my problem is definitely NOT the size of my destination drive (1 TB completely empty now & new drive SSD so i know it is not corrupted or bad) & my source drive is only 500GB ...

ok so i have photorec running successfully in a gparted terminal but now i cannot make heads or tails of the destination directories. im what many of you would probably classify as novice to intermediate user but wtf are all these drwr-xr-x named directories? and which column is the directory size ...

ok thanks. i will do that & report back whether success or fail. at any rate, i am confident that will work. i have about 80GB of music that i know i can recover so you can imagine the cost, not to mention the personal value of such a collection.

i also was trying to run photorec from gparted on ...

hi.
im trying to run photorec from a terminal in ubuntu and getting nowhere. every command i try i get either "command not found" or "no such file or directory." i am root and still cannot run the program.

note: i am running from a machine with what i am 90+ % certain has bad sectors on disk. i ...