PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an application for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again.

PhotoRec is free - this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU General Public License (GPLV v2+). PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/.) LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems: Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.ĭOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box), For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystemĬopy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions. Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.įix partition table, recover deleted partition TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Two free and powerful data recovery programs in one download. We don't believe in fake/misleading download buttons and tricks. File - Download TestDisk and PhotoRec v7.2Īlways scroll to the bottom of the page for the main download link.

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