Data Integrity: Resurrection
Faced with a need to recover images from Robert’s camera after a defective card-reader nuked the filesystem superblock, a quick utility came to mind. Nuked superblocks mean no file allocation table. It means no metadata. But it does not mean no data.
- Target medium: 1GB XD card from a digital camera.
- Data to recover: JPEGs. Lots of them.
Whipping out some jpeg-format-and-filesystem-jutsu, here’s the solution (for less than that $20 shareware recovery utility):