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Contributor: Christophe Grenier. Location: Paris, France. URL: cgsecurity.org. He started the project in 1998 and is still the main developer. He is also responsible for the packaging of TestDisk & PhotoRec for DOS, Windows, Linux (generic version), MacOS X, and Fedora distribution.
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When a file is deleted, the list of disk clusters occupied by the file is erased, marking those sectors available for use by other files created or modified thereafter. TestDisk can recover deleted files especially if the file was not fragmented and the clusters have not been reused.
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is a "file carver". It does not need any knowledge of the file system, but instead looks for patterns of known file formats in the partition or disk image. It works best on unfragmented files and cannot recover the file
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Use the two copies of the FAT to rewrite a coherent version
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The best damn cybercrime and digital forensics book period
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