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i am having the same issue

recuperation wrote: 18 Feb 2024, 11:51 Sometimes I feel like I should bang my head against the wall until it breaks.

your head or the wall?

i am not getting this page to select whole partition or unallocated space.

photorec version 7
using ext4 filesystem

https://imgur.com/a/CLADjAY

If Photorec understands the inner workings of the file system you have the option to have Photorec either search the whole space or the unused one. The data you found may originate from used space. If Photorec does not understand the file system used it cannot distinguish between used space and ...

gianfrus wrote: 07 Jan 2024, 17:44
For an in-deep discussion of a very similar case: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/wipe-free-space

thanks for that link. good validation of the various wiping techniques

recuperation wrote: 26 Oct 2023, 19:55 Photorec simply sees everything.

What is "remove.file"?

remove.file is just a text file name i chose to send /dev/zero to. then i delete the file and in theory should not be any data left to recover.

I used these commands on an SSD with an ext4 filesystem to write zeros to the free space on the drive.
cat /dev/zero > remove.file
sync
rm remove.file

after removing the file, photorec still finds plenty of deleted data. trying to figure why/how photorec is doing that?