A few years ago I built Photorec: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec It runs but won't recognise the partitions. Here is the old version I built. http://www.p.slegg.scubadivers.co.uk/download/testdisk http://www.p.slegg.scubadivers.co.uk/download/photorec Someone may know how to get it to work under Mint. Roger Burrows suggested libio IIRC Regards, Peter