Foremost

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Description

Foremost is a free and open-source utility for recovering files from digital media. It is designed to recover files from disks and devices that have been formatted with a variety of file systems. It can be used to recover deleted files, reconstruct corrupted or damaged files, or to simply browse through the contents of a disk. It can also be used to recover files from backups, images and archives. Foremost is capable of recovering a wide variety of file types, including images, documents, archives, and audio/video files. It can also detect and recover multi-part archives, such as split Zip files. Foremost has a built-in parser for various file formats, allowing it to identify and recover files even when the file headers have been damaged or overwritten.

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