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InformationWeek has posted a
lengthy look at open source data recovery tools. "The authors
of TestDisk have created an excellent file-carving tool called PhotoRec,
which recovers many common file formats from pretty much any type of media.
This is about as essential a standalone file-recovery tool as you're going
to get. I tried it out on a camera card I'd written off as wiped out after
a recent trip, and managed to recover literally everything from the card --
both pictures and video. It wasn't able to recover some of the actual
filenames, but the files themselves were all perfectly readable."