Hi all,
it's just to inform you that I have uploaded on Garage the porting for Maemo 5 of the famous tools TestDisk and PhotoRec

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery tool that helps to recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

PhotoRec is file data recovery tool designed to recover lost files including video, documents, archives, audio files, databases and much more from disks and SD/MMC cards. It supports more than 300 file formats.

For further info please refer to the following links:

Package View details : http://maemo.org/packages/view/recovery-tools/
Garage project : http://recovery-tools.garage.maemo.org

Update 28/02/2010 : I have released the version 6.11-5 which fixes some scripts bugs and adds shortcuts to the applications menu to execute both TestDisk and PhotoRec applications under X-Terminal with root priviledges; so now you should be able to run the apps just clicking on the icons without need to use X-Terminal

If you are not able to install this package cause the lack of "libncursesw5" you have simply to:
1) run X-Terminal
2) type "sudo gainroot" to get root priviledges
3) type "apt-get install libncursesw5"

then you can proceed normally with the installation of TestDisk & PhotoRec package.

If it doesn't work you can download and install this library from the following link :
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/mae...+0m5_armel.deb

Please, don't hesitate to contact me for any problem!

For a step-by-step introduction on how to use the tools, please refer to the following links:

For TestDisk : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
For PhotoRec: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

I look forward to get your feedbacks.

- Luigi