Undeleting photos and videos are just the tip of the iceberg. Together, PhotoRec and TestDisk are a powerful set of free data recovery tools. It’s a companion program to TestDisk, another open-source program that’s long been used by data recovery gurus for repairing partitions and making non-bootable disks bootable again. Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/.PhotoRec is a free and open-source, cross-platform utility that lets you recover data from a hard drive, flash drive, SD card, and other removable media. LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems: And for those advanced users familiar with the area will find it to be a useful tool for performing onsite recovery. For novice users that have little experience with data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be utilized to gather comprehensive data about a non-booting drive that can be provided to an experienced user on a support forum or an IT professional.

TestDisk will appeal to novice and expert users alike with features for both. Additionally, you are provided with the capability to undelete files from exFAT, ext2 filesystems, FAT, NTFS, and copy files from deleted exFAT, FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.

You can also rebuild an NTFS boot sector, recover NTFS boot sector from its backup, fix MFT using MFT mirror and locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock. It can repair a partition table, recover deleted partitions, recover FAT32 boot sector from its primary backup, rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector and fix FAT tables. This utility is designed to be easy for partition table recovery.

TestDisk is aimed at recovering lost partitions, making non-booting disks bootable due to software issues, viruses as well as human error.

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