Hi!
Look, one of the first things I have made with my new HTC Tattoo has been formatting the SD card. As soon as I realized what I had done, I turned off the phone, extracted the card, and using testdisk, I recovered its contents. They were:
Some example background images.
Some example music, with cover images
A pdf file, the instruction manual of the machine.
An executable, the sync program.
A large lot of .txt and .f files. Some of them contain image orientation data. The rest contain code.
The images and the music are not important. The pdf and the executable aren't too. But I am worried about those .f files. They look important! The phone is working fine, but...
Don't worry. There aren't any system files on the sdcard.
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I was playing with Resco Explorer and Resco Picture Viewer yesterday, and in what must be a culmination of circumstances, I ended up with a completely 'dead' 4MB mini SD. I looked around the net for some recovery software, but could only find stuff that could resurrect media files.
Than I found this:
http://www.datadoctor.biz/bak-c.htm
Completely read and backed up my card including ALL non-media files, and then I was able to reformat the card and copy all the stuff back. Perfect first time.
Hint: Move all the files you have that in the root directory into a subdirectory. Recovery software like this only recovers subdirectories.
I have no connection with this company, but I was very glad to find them.
Hope this helps others like me who don't back up their cards regularly.
Could I delete them or not?
These files are generated by the fsck linux utility, which is the equivalent of Windows/DOS CHKDSK command.
They are the recovery data that it finds, like file data with no reference in FAT table, etc, so it converts it in a recovery file for you to analyze and recover...
If you don't need to recover lost files (Which is most of the time), then delete them.
If they keep returning then format your SD card. I had them when I was trying 4K blocksize but gone once I moved to 32K.
32K is my usual default but I was just trying something out.
FSCKxxx.REC means File System check record.
Usually are created if you are not closing down the operating system the "normal" way, like you take the battery out. Linux always check the file system at bootup and if something "not-normal" (any left overs from improper close down) are found then a FSCHxxx.rec file is created to be analysed by the system administrator.
How to recover those FSCK files?
Does anyone know how to recover the file fsck.rec??? help me please
If you are in your Android phone, just tap the fsck then a pop up dialogue will appear saying open file as music, video, image etc. Just select anything since you are not sure what kind of file is it, if you think it is a music select music then if it not plays just select another file type. Then rename tha file, change the .rec with the right file extension if it is a music change it to .mp3 , .m4a etc. If its a video change it to .mp4 , . flv etc. (sorry for my poor English)
I have transferred some pictures from my Android phone storage to my SD card many pics have been corrupted as FSCK0000.REC. Someone please help me to recover
Howdy, couldn't find this anywhere
htc Advantage 7510 running MichyPrima ROM for years. Internal (built-in) flash drive developed one corrupt directory (the backup directory for SPB backup, natch) and got filled up, before this had plenty of room. The bad directory now appears to contain subdirectories and files with gobble-de-goop names, dates, etc. and when I try to delete any or all of them it tells me either that the file name contains illegal characters and therefor can't be deleted, or that the file is a system file and access is denied (of course the files are not write-protected). Trying to get at it and delete it while connected to an XP desktop also doesn't help because it is not recognized as an external drive, but rather as a sub-directory of a "mobile device", so I get similar errors. All other directories are fine, and most of my installed , configured software resides on this drive, along with a lot of data (I've got all that backed up to the desktop computer). I also removed some files from other directories to make some room just in case this was complicating things.
Is there some utility that will let me make an end-run around this and just delete the directory and its contents? I really don't want to format the entire drive and start over from nothing.
TIA for any advice!
-avi
Remove corrupted directory from internal flash drive checkout following link for more details.
This won't help.
As stated above, only the removable micro SD card can bee seen as a true external flash drive, not the intenal memory.
The only solution would be a Windows Mobile tool similar to Scandisk.
Now you really can't find anything to solve your problem, you can still backup all your data and hard reset your device : it should set it back clean.
I kind of concluded that myself. Just hoping someone knows of that elusive utility that will let me work on the drive as if it were a regular removable drive. I REALLY don't want to go the formatting route.
Hi
I'm an idiot human and deleted my camera folder. I'm not rooted. Can I recover it? It was on the micro sd card.
thanks
I've found a fix for this. Much of the pc recovery freeware is useless (on the playstore its pretty much all useless unless rooted) as it scans the files which takes ages, then says you need to buy to recover. After 6 or 7 attempts at trying different software I found 'recuva' free which did a grand job and recovered pretty much all the files. I removed the sd card and mounted it in my laptop, it recovers them to a file on the laptop and they then just needed copying back to SD. Take a photo first and the camera folder gets recreated.
One improvement I can see on Android is the ability to 'lock' the camera/DCIM folders so they cannot be deleted with just one click, but allow content to be selected for deletion. Can't be beyond the realms of mankind to build this and include it into core fw without the need to root. This would also be useful for music and other folders where accidently deletion needs to be prohibited.
Hello there,
I have recently experienced a very serious problem in my Z1 running Lollipop. I lost every single file located in my internal and external sd card, such as photos, .obb files from /android folder and everything else. The problem occured when I connected the phone to PC via MTP, and deleted the, phenomenically, empty folder tree from my internal sd card '/emulated/legacy'. After that, Windows Explorer didn't respond, and after restarting my PC, I realised that both memories were empty. I immediately disconnected my phone, run a file explorer and experienced the same results. I even rebooted to TWRP, which approved the loss of my data.
What I think that caused the problem: The deletion of the 'empty' folder tree, as it corresponds with the one located in root/storage/ of my phone, and appears to be the mount location of both internal and external sd card, and which, somehow, made it way to the insternal sd card.
What I did: I immediately removed the MicroSD card, and powered off the phone, in order to prevent the 'free' space to be overwritten. After that I created two system dumps. One of userdata.img (mmcblk0p12), and one of the whole system mmcblk0, in order to try recovering my data. Then, I installed Ubuntu and TestDisk to check the two dumps. What the program recovered were the thumbnails from the /DICM/.thumbnails folder, some images and videos from programs cache (such as ads), and even some tagged faces from pictures of the Album application, but not the pictures themselves. I also tried the same process, but by using Recuva on Windows but nothing changed. Finally, what I tried, was mounting the insternal memory as mass storage under Ubuntu, by using Go-mptfs, but I wasn't succesfull as I experienced problems during the installation and device mounting process. I didn't find any scripts for Lollipop in order to swap the two partitions on the device itself.
Is there anything else I can do?