A bit of offtopic: msdosfs recovery tool

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Saturday 12 July 2008, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have CF card which failed somewhere very close to the beginning; I did
> copy by recoverdisk, and can find start of at least one of FAT copies
> (though can't be sure of its consistency); I can't find root directory yet,
> neither subdirs.
>
> So - it there any tool to automate/speed up such a process?
>

Hi,

You are fortunately not the first one into that water ;-)

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

We should have this in ports. It is a pretty good utility!

If the program crashes, just remove the format scanners that are crashing from 
the build and run the scan again.

--HPS