#OXYGEN FORENSICS ZIP SOFTWARE#
If not possible the software will check block by block comparing it with a PhotoRec’s database. PhotoRec tries to find the file data block from the superblock for Linux filesystems or from the volume boot record for WIndows filesystems. Photorec allows you to recover media, documents and files from hard drives, optical disks or camera memories.
This article describes some of the most popular available File Carving Tools for Linux including PhotoRec, Scalpel, Bulk Extractor with Record Carving, Foremost and TestDisk. File Carving consists of bringing back files even if their metadata with the information of their location within the filesystem isn’t available. Among more information, files metadata contains the location and structure of a file within the filesystem and physical blocks. All files contain metadata, metadata means: “ data that provides information about other data”.
In computers, file carving consists of recovering and rebuilding, reconstructing or reassembling fragmented files after a disk was formatted, its filesystem or partition corrupted or damaged or the metadata of a file removed.