File Carving
When a file is only partially recovered, regardless of the file system, you can use file carving to attempt to recover the file. File carving is often used to recover data from a disk where there has been some damage or where the file itself is corrupt. This is a common method of data recovery, particularly when the file metadata has been damaged. Sometimes this is just called “carving.” Regardless of the name used, the purpose is to extract the data from a single file from the larger set of data, that is, the entire disk or partition.
Most file carving utilities operate by looking for file headers and/or footers, and then pulling out the data that is found between these two boundaries. One popular file carving tool is Scalpel, ...
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