Only folder currupted. What to do best?
Posted: 20 Nov 2017, 12:31
Hi everyone, 
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My name is Stephan, I am German and though I am new to this forum I am not entirely new to TestDisk.
I'd prefer to post my questions here in the English forum because I noticed the chance to get a reply is much higher here.
Here my case:
I have got an SD-card partly used for taking photos but also for exchanging PC data from office to home and vice versa.
When I watched a recently taking movie on this card on my notebook at home, a loose connection, an eletric pulse or something like this has appeared for a moment ...
Whatever happened, the file system has been partly demaged in a very special way I have never seen before:
The stick *can* still be mounted and accessed. The root folder and all other data are intact except one folder:
When openening the DCIM-folder (containing the photos and movies from my camera) I don't get its content shown but only one single big file with a cryptic name (like USB[@sdfsödlkö#23²\f...).
I have already run PhotoRec for a while in deep mode and the first results are very good. Pictures and movies can be restored (though the movies are segmented in the two ftyp- and mdat-parts that can easily be concatinated).
Here my question:
As the files have *not* been deleted and the patition table and even even (most of) the allocation table an directory structure are ok - is there a faster or even better (filenames) safe way to restore the lost data in this special case?
Stephan
.My name is Stephan, I am German and though I am new to this forum I am not entirely new to TestDisk.
I'd prefer to post my questions here in the English forum because I noticed the chance to get a reply is much higher here.
Here my case:
I have got an SD-card partly used for taking photos but also for exchanging PC data from office to home and vice versa.
When I watched a recently taking movie on this card on my notebook at home, a loose connection, an eletric pulse or something like this has appeared for a moment ...
Whatever happened, the file system has been partly demaged in a very special way I have never seen before:
The stick *can* still be mounted and accessed. The root folder and all other data are intact except one folder:
When openening the DCIM-folder (containing the photos and movies from my camera) I don't get its content shown but only one single big file with a cryptic name (like USB[@sdfsödlkö#23²\f...).
I have already run PhotoRec for a while in deep mode and the first results are very good. Pictures and movies can be restored (though the movies are segmented in the two ftyp- and mdat-parts that can easily be concatinated).
Here my question:
As the files have *not* been deleted and the patition table and even even (most of) the allocation table an directory structure are ok - is there a faster or even better (filenames) safe way to restore the lost data in this special case?
Stephan