How to create a file recovery program

[walter-j]

hello Friends,

I want to create a small utility: a file recovery utility with Qt.

Someone can share with me please idea about how to do it with Qt?

Thank you,

josephat

[SGaist]

Hi,

Do you mean a software that tries to "undelete" files ? Tries to restore them after a potential disk failure or format ?

[walter-j]

yes. you understood me very well.

Please how can I do it with Qt.

Thank you

Josephat

[walter-j]

yes. you understood me very well.

Please how can I do it with Qt.

Thank you

Josephat

Josephat Kabitshwa

[SGaist]

Well for the lower-level access to the file systems themselves, there's nothing in Qt for that, it's way of the scope of the framework.

I'd recommend rather taking a look at the existing tools and maybe build a GUI on top of them. Bit manipulation at the filesystem level is not something you want to do without a very solid background on filesystems, virtual filesystems, device drivers, computer forensics etc.