A few days ago, my daughter has deleted by mistake some photos on her camera. It has been 10 years at least since I recovered deleted files last time, so I had to find out how to approach the problem in 2022 with Kali Linux.

I found TestDisk , available on Kali Linux and it recovered my photos without any issues.

Here is the procedure I followed:

1. Connect the USB storage.
2. Identify the disk, the partition type (DOS or GPT), and the partition with parted -l,
3. Run testdisk.
4. Click on Create a new log file.
5. Highlight the USB disk.
6. Click on Proceed.
7. Click on the right partition type (in my case Intel/PC partition).
8. Click on Advanced Filesystem Utils.
9. Highlight the partition.
10. Click on Undelete.
11. Select files and directories to be recovered by pressing :.
12. Press C to copy selected files and directories.
13. Select the destination folder and press again C to start the recovery process.

In the end, we’ll find all files and directories under the destination path we chose.

My scenario was very simple, but you would try PhotoRec also.

References

• TestDisk
• PhotoRec

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