This is photorec ( http://www.cgsecurity.org ) version 6.7 compiled for
OS/2 / eComStation

From README:
 "PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover
 lost pictures from digital camera memory or even Hard Disks.
 It has been extended to search also for non audio/video headers."

For docs see .\doc\html\photorec.html

The name PhotoRec is a bit misleading, the program is not only
 able to recover photos, but will try to recover a lot of other
 fileformats too. For details see
 .\doc\html\file_formats_recovered_by_photorec.html

!! This version only works with imagefiles of disks/partitions       !!
!! Direct access to disks/partitions is not yet implemented for OS/2 !!

So if you want to recover files from a disk you have to dump its bits
 to a imagefile first. You can do this for example with
 DFSee ( http://www.dfsee.com ) or
 dd ( http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/file/gnufutil.zip  or
      ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/alpha/coreutils-5.94.zip )
   
Example: To dump a USB-Disk i: to a imagefile image-of-i.img
 you can use:

  dd if=i: of=image-of-i.img echo=on logdisk=on bs=32k

  After this call 'photorec image-of-i.img'


How to install:
---------------

If you copy photorec.exe to some place, don't forget
 to also copy the directory named 'a' and it's content
 'ansi' to the same place (Or to your TERMINFO directory).

Additional requirements to run the program:
 gcc-3.3.5-csd3-runtime (ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip)


How to build:
-------------

Sources are available here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

I compiled with gcc 3.3.5-csd3 ( ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc )

In principle it's just sh configure && make with minor tweaks.

The problem was the ncurses library. Big Thanks to Dmitry Froloff
 (http://froloff.homeip.net/), who contributed a working version of the
 ncurses-5.5 library (ncurses.lib) a helper-lib (os2term.a) and a patched
 version of terminfo/a/ansi which is needed to make things work without
 patching the sources.

 (ask me if you are interested in the details)


BTW testdisk.exe also builds. It might work with files (I didn't try),
 but because it does not work with disks I didn't include it to this
 package.

Comments welcome, enjoy.

-- 
fbakan@gmx.net  27. June 2007
www.fbakan.de
