Resume PhotoRec without original photorec.ses
Posted: 04 Apr 2017, 02:46
Hi,
I have a USB with Porteus and for some reason, it doesn't save information when it is shutdown. I was recovering a 2tb hard drive with family pics and video. I don't have one hard drive big enough to save all the files. I had photorec save to a 150gb empty hard drive. When that was getting full, I did not know about being able to stop and resume with another drive, so I was copying the first recup.dir files to another disk I had with 70gb. My 150 gb drive was filing up again and I copied the recup files to a 1tb hard drive that only had 90gb left. After that finished, I was unable to unmount that hard drive and after a few hours of the file manager freezing every time I tried to unmount, i just unplugged the drive. Immediately, Porteus crashes and goes into text mode with a message about kernel panic. So,I had to restart linux. Testdisk had disapeard (I had downloaded it durring the session and it doesn't save it) along with the photorec.ses file. I don't have space in my hard drive to start over again. Is there a way to start where I left off. I notice that I can edit the photorec.ses file. Is there a way to start it where it left off? Do the numbers in the file names have any use for this type of operation? Please help. It's urgent. If not editing the photorec.ses file, is there another way to resume? Again, I do not have it for the original session.
I have a USB with Porteus and for some reason, it doesn't save information when it is shutdown. I was recovering a 2tb hard drive with family pics and video. I don't have one hard drive big enough to save all the files. I had photorec save to a 150gb empty hard drive. When that was getting full, I did not know about being able to stop and resume with another drive, so I was copying the first recup.dir files to another disk I had with 70gb. My 150 gb drive was filing up again and I copied the recup files to a 1tb hard drive that only had 90gb left. After that finished, I was unable to unmount that hard drive and after a few hours of the file manager freezing every time I tried to unmount, i just unplugged the drive. Immediately, Porteus crashes and goes into text mode with a message about kernel panic. So,I had to restart linux. Testdisk had disapeard (I had downloaded it durring the session and it doesn't save it) along with the photorec.ses file. I don't have space in my hard drive to start over again. Is there a way to start where I left off. I notice that I can edit the photorec.ses file. Is there a way to start it where it left off? Do the numbers in the file names have any use for this type of operation? Please help. It's urgent. If not editing the photorec.ses file, is there another way to resume? Again, I do not have it for the original session.