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FREE and/or Open Source Desktop Software! => System Repair and Other Utilities => Topic started by: Software Santa on April 22, 2013, 08:23:37 PM

Title: TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software!
Post by: Software Santa on April 22, 2013, 08:23:37 PM
TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software!




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TestDisk, Data Recovery
TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/) is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) (GPL v2+).
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). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk can
  • Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
  • Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
  • Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
  • Fix FAT tables
  • Rebuild NTFS boot sector
  • Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
  • Fix MFT using MFT mirror
  • Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
  • Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
  • Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. 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. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.Operating systemsTestDisk can run under
    • DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),
    • Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7 (x86 & x64),
    • Linux,
    • FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
    • SunOS and
    • MacOS X
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    Download (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download) binary executables and source files for DOS, Win32, MacOSX and Linux.[/size]
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