Recovering Images From Pendrives/SD Cards Using Kali-Linux


Many people store there important Images in there SD cards of Mobile Phones/Tabs or PenDrives and sometimes unexpectedly they get deleted. Then it becomes a bad nightmare for that person who losses his important pictures but you need not to worry now because Kali Linux has something for you that will help you in this situation and what is amazing is that this tool is free.
Name of the Tool is: RECOVERJPEG
and Has been written by: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>


Requirements:

1. Kali Linux or Any Linux OS with recoverjpeg tool

To Start the tool simply type: recoverjpeg in kali-linux terminal, hit enter and you are good to go.
It will provide you with the help text as shown in image below.



 

To simply recover your images type this command:

recoverjpeg /dev/sdb1
 

here sdb1 is my removable drive replace it with your removable drive name. If you don't know your removable drives name go to Disk Utility in Accessories section of your Application Menu and see your drive or simply type fdisk -l in your terminal and hit enter to see your available disks.

The Recovered Images will be stored in 'Home Folder'.

Other options of recoverjpeg are:
    -b blocksize     Block size in bytes (default: 512)
    -f   format       Format string in printf syntax
    -h                    Help message
    -i    index         Initial picture index
    -m  maxsize    Max jpeg file size in bytes (default: 6m)
    -q                    Be quiet
    -r   readsize    Size of disk reads in bytes (default: 128m)
    -v   verbose    Replace progress bar by details
   
Check them out one by one to learn more about recoverjpeg

For Man Page of recoverjpeg simply type:
 

man recoverjpeg

Comments

  1. if the jpg file not opening on windows 10 and you get worried about that jpg file then you are suggested to use photo recovery spftware. It is easy to use and this will maintian the originality of jpg file.

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  3. The above information is very good but not only Images from pendrive. You can recover more deleted data from any device

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