exFAT partition with a lot of zero sized files

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ogeen
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exFAT partition with a lot of zero sized files

#1 Post by ogeen »

Hi everyone,

I have here a 3TB exFAT partition with a lot of zero sized jpgs on. I know the original path, I know the file name, but the file is simply empty. Is there a way how can I recover these files?

Thanks for any help!

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Re: exFAT partition with a lot of zero sized files

#2 Post by cgrenier »

The fastest way may be to delete all zero size files and run PhotoRec on the free space of the partition: run PhotoRec, select the partition, Search, choose [Free] instead of [Whole].
Store the recovered files on another disk, sort the recovered files...

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