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Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to
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recover and calls an external program to extract them. It looks
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at "magic bytes" in file contents, so it can be used both as an
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undelete utility and for recovering a corrupted drive or partition.
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As long as the file data is there, it will find it.
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It works on any file system, but on very fragmented file systems
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it can only recover the first chunk of each file. Practical
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experience (this program was not written for fun) shows, however,
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that chunks of 30-50MB are not uncommon.
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