[TriLUG] Recover deleted video from SD card?

[David Brain]

Take a look at photorec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec it can
recover various file types - I've used it to recover mp3s from a corrupted
SD card, worked very well, but not sure of its video support.

David
On Apr 26, 2014 10:44 PM, "Nathan Yinger" <npyinger at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After sending a Raspberry Pi up on a weather balloon and getting some very
> nice video from the air, I turned the Pi on again and my startup script
> overwrote the video file. Does anyone know how I could recover the lost
> video?
>
> The file is an h264 encoded video from the 'raspivid' program, and is
> stored in an ext4 partition on an SD card. The file is 13GB, and the whole
> partition is 30GB. I've tried photorec, but it didn't seem to find the
> video. I've never done any data recovery before, so I'm a little lost on
> this...
>
> Thanks,
> ~Nathan
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