TestDisk is a 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 your 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 Backup SuperBlock

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 Systems: DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),Windows (NT4, SunOS and MacOS.

Source files and precompiled binary executables are available for DOS, Win32, MacOSX and Linux from the download page .

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PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk.
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory.
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General Improvements

TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.9 comes with numerous improvements:

* They are compatible with ntfsprogs 2.0, the latest library version for accessing NTFS partitions.
* EFI GUID Partition Table is now supported. EFI GPT is mainly used on Itanium, MacBook and Mac Pro.
* Both utilities can use sudo if the user is not root, this functionnality will be enabled for at least MacOSX, so users won't have to go into a command line.
* The MacOSX screen is also better supported.
* Improved Windows disk support, most internal USB card reader should now work.
* Disk model (ie. ATA ST3120026AS, _NEC DVD_RW ND-4550A...) are now reported under Linux.

TestDisk

* New file system support has been added: encrypted LUKS, Mac HFSX, Linux Raid md 1.0/1.1/1.2 (0.9 was already supported).
* UFS, UFS2 file systems are now identified better.
* TestDisk 6.9 now handles a Mac partition table partially overwritten by an Intel partition.
* It displays unicode filenames correctly, and can handle unicode filesnames while copying files from an NTFS partition when supported by the underlying libraries.
* TestDisk warns if the media is in read-only instead of read-write access.
* It's now possible to copy files from a lost FAT partition found by TestDisk (Already possible for NTFS).
* In the Advanced menu, TestDisk can create a raw/dd-like image of a partition.

PhotoRec

* For ext2/ext3 file systems, PhotoRec 6.9 can search in the whole space or in unallocated space only. This feature was already available for FAT and NTFS filesystem.
* It has better session support which allows a recovery to be stopped and restarted later.
* New file formats are supported: Acronis True Image .TIB, AutoCAD's .DWG and PowerTab .PTB, Cineon image file/SMTPE DPX .DPX, Comic Life .comicdoc, HP Photosmart Photo Printing Album .albm, KeepAssX .KDB, Maya .MB and .MP, Microsoft OneNOte .one file, Microsoft Visual Studio Resource file .RES, Microsoft VB's .CLS, Outlook .MSG, QuickBook .FST, SketchUp .SKP, Vmware .vmdk, WinSpec .SPE, Windows Enhanced MetaFile .emf, MS Windows Link .lnk, Internet Explorer index.dat, Macintosh Picture .pct, SunPCI Disk Image,XBOX GTA San Andreas Save File, Final Cut Pro .fcp and Digital Speech Standard .dss.
* It fixes Mac Address Book and Outlook 64-bits .PST recovery; also NTFS 'free space' recovery.
* Support for .MOV, .ZIP, FastTrackerII Extended Module .XM and ACE archive has been improved.

TestDisk 6.10 Release
(17 July 2008)

TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.10 comes with severals improvements:

• Report disk manufacturer and model under Windows and Linux (Only Linux was supported in 6.9)
  
• Under Linux, /dev/mapper/* and /dev/md? are now listed with the harddisks.
  
• Now both OS and compiler versions are recorded in the log file.
  
• Testdisk is now shipped with plugins for both BartPE and WinBuilder

TestDisk
This new TestDisk version can

• undelete files and directories for FAT filesystem,
  
• undelete files for ext2 filesystem,
  
• copy files from ext2/ext3 partitions. These feature was already available for FAT and NTFS.

PhotoRec

• New file formats are supported:
  o adr Opera Hotlist
  o als Ableton Live Sets
  o amb Licom AlphaCAM
  o amd/amt/atd/att AlphaCAM
  o amr Adaptive Multi-Rate
  o arj Archive
  o arw Sony raw image,
  o asm Pro/ENGINEER Assembly
  o chm MS Windows HtmlHelp Data
  o dc TSCe Survey Controller DC v10.0
  o deb Debian Archive
  o drw Pro/ENGINEER Drawing
  o ds2 Digital Speech Standard v2
  o fcs Flow Cytometry Standard 3.0
  o f Fortran
  o fits NASA Flexible Image Transport System
  o frm Pro/ENGINEER Drawing Form
  o gho Ghost
  o gpg Partial support for GPG/OpenPGP file recovery
  o ics vcalendar
  o ifo DVD Video manager or title set
  o iso cd/dvd iso image (ISO0660)
  o kmy KMyMoney
  o m2ts Blu-ray MPEG-2
  o mcd VectorWorks
  o mfg Pro/ENGINEER Manufacturing
  o msf Mozilla "mork database"
  o pfx files holding PKCS#12 keys
  o prt Pro/ENGINEER Model
  o psp Paint Shop Pro Image File
  o SQLite databases
  o stl Stereolithography CAD
  o stp Standard for the Exchange of Product model data
  o tph Pro/ENGINEER ToolPath
  o veg Sony Vegas
  o wdb Microsoft Works Database
  o wks Lotus 1-2-3
  
• Load and save FileOpts settings: remember which file types to recover
  
• For JPEG files, extract the time/date from Exif header and set the file time

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