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First off, I'm posting this here because the cgsecurity.org forum has blocked my IP address (I'm using public wifi), and this is the next best place I can think of. I hope someone here can assist me.
Long story short, my laptop (running Debian at the time) was stolen, and reobtained to find that the HDD had been repartitioned and reformatted and Windows installed. Among the important files on the drive that I lost were plain ASCII text files (with no extension). I plan to use PhotoRec to recover some files, but if I understand correctly, it can't recover plain ASCII text files because there's no common signature to identify them with. Am I correct in saying this? If so, does anyone know of a way I could go about recovering the files? I can recall much of the content of these files, so maybe there's a way to match raw data against a search string? Even then, I'm unsure how the start and end of the file could be detected, unless I'm wrong and there is some kind of file identifier. Any ideas? I'm open to trying just about anything. Thanks
Last edited by vdrachtseq (2014-01-11 19:06:17)
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I recently used photorec to recover files from my formatted usb drive. I was able to get the majority of files back. Then again... I didn't format it and start writing stuff to it. It was only formatted. I got several ascii text files back... but they had .txt extension to them. Also, if I remember correctly you can create your own signatures for photorec. I recommend looking into that.
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