TestDisk is a multiplatform free and open source data recovery utility. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by certain types of viruses, broken software or human errors (such as accidentally deleting a partition table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is very easy. TestDisk has features for both experts and novices - for those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a problematic hard disk which can then be sent to a expert for further analysis.TestDisk can
- Locate ext3/ext2 Backup SuperBlock
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
TestDisk can run under these operating systems:
- DOS (either real or in a MS Windows 9x DOS-box)
- FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
- Microsoft Windows (2000, NT4, XP, 2003)
- GNU/Linux
- SunOS
- MacOS
TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems:
- BeFS (BeOS)
- BSD disklabel (/NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD)
- CramFS, Compressed File System
- DOS/Windows FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12
- HFSX, HFS+ and HFS, Hierarchical File System
- JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
- Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2
- RAID 1: mirroring
- RAID 4: striped array with parity device
- RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
- RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
- Linux ext2 and ext3
- Linux LUKS encrypted partition
- Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
- LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
- Mac partition map
- Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
- Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
- XFS, SGI's Journaled File System
- Novell Storage Services NSS
- NTFS (Microsoft Windows XP/NT/2000/2003/Vista/2008)
- ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
Download: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
License: GNU General Public License
