Hi all,
I am a complete novice with computers. Am in the process of desperately trying to recover my photos from my dying HDD.
I am running photoRec and it has done a scan but is now asking about the block size?
Where it says please select block size, which should I select from the folowing?
512
1024
2048
4096
8192
16384
32768
65536
I am only after jpeg photos from he HDD if this matters.
Your help will be greatly appreciated!
Block size?
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Re: Block size?
If you are novice, why have you enable the expert mode ? 
Use the default blocksize or 512 if you have done the mistake of reformating the partition.

Use the default blocksize or 512 if you have done the mistake of reformating the partition.