

If you are not root, PhotoRec will restart itself using sudo after a confirmation on your part. Under Mac OS X, start PhotoRec (ie testdisk-6.13/photorec).Under Unix/Linux/BSD, you need to be root to run PhotoRec (ie.Under Windows Vista or later, right click photorec_win.exe and then click Run as administrator to launch PhotoRec. Under Windows, start PhotoRec (ie testdisk-6.13/photorec_win.exe) from an account in the Administrator group.To recover files from hard disk, USB key, Smart Card, CD-ROM, DVD, etc., you need enough rights to access the physical device. Extract the files from the archive including the sub-directories. If PhotoRec is not yet installed, it can be downloaded from TestDisk Download.


8 Select where recovered files should be written.7 Carve the partition or unallocated space only.
