
In my case its easy as I only had 1 picture and 1 document: Unfortunately the original file names are gone so you will need to sort your files by type and open them one by one to find the document or picture etc that you are looking for. Once done you are given information to donate to the project and can close down the program: Wait for the PhotoRec program to carry out the attempted file recover: If we ran it again we would get recup_dir.2 and so on and so forth: We have the folder recup_dir.1 which ends in 1 as it is the 1st time we ran the application.

We can go to this folder and to begin the Recovery we can press Leave it at the default option given and press :īy default file Recovery will occur within a subfolder beside the PhotoRec. In the next screen you will be given the option of Partition Type. I will select No Partition to look at the entire volume by using the key and then pressing : In the screen you can select a Partition or you can "No Partition" to search the Entire Drive: Once the correct Device is selected press : Pressing the key until my USB Flash Drive is highlighted (I can tell that this my USB Flash Drive by the name and the size of the volume, in this case 2 GB). In my case I will select the USB Flash Drive: You will be presented with a list of Drives. In this case I will snap it to the right hand side: We are going to use it to Recover Files on E:\ so it is fine to be in the Downloads folder on C:\ Right click the zip file (this should not be on the Drive you want to test with).

We can now Download and Extract TestDisk. The Files are "Deleted" but are they "gone": Alternatively highlight the files and select the Delete Button: Now lets right click the files on the USB Flash Drive: Lets start with an example, 2 files on a USB Flash Drive a Word Document and a Picture (Screenshot):
