TestDisk: A Best Partition Recovery Software for desktop

If by chance, you have lost information on your disks, i.e., hard drives, flash drives or memory card then you must use the software TestDisk App for the recovery. Many other softwares such as EasUS Data recovery, DMDE are available. But this software is very efficient as compared to other softwares.

Why TestDisk App is one of the Best Software for Data Recovery

TestDisk is an open source software. It was launched by Christophe Grenier. It is a free data recovery utility software. It is convenient software. TestDisk collects the full information about a non-booting drive and then send it to tech for further analysis. So, it helps in the recovery of lost partition or copying data from one partition to another. In addition to this, testdisk can do:

  • Recovery of partition.
  • Rewrite the Master Boot Record (MBR).
  • Build the partition table.
  • Fixing the FAT tables.

Some of the filesystems supported by TestDisk are:

  • FAT
  • NTFS
  • exFAT
  • BeFS
  • XFS
  • HFS
  • CramFS
  • Linux Swap
  • Unix File System UFS and UFS2
  • JFS
  • Linux GFS2

It supports following Operating Systems:

  • All versions of Windows.
  • DOS
  • Linux
  • Mac OS
  • FreeBSD
  • SunOS

Main Features of TestDisk

The emergence of TestDisk software is for the recovery of damaged or lost partition and for making non-booting disk bootable again.

Windows system crash, virus attack or misuse of hard drive causes partition table to delete or corrupt.

Thus, TestDisk help you in recovery of this deleted or corrupted partition tables. Other main features of TestDisk are:

  • Fixing the partition tables.
  • Fixing the Master File Table.
  • Copying files from one partition to another. In other words, making a replica of a partition.
  • Recovery of files which are deleted or corrupted from filesystems that are enough to work with the DOS (Disk Operating System).
  • Recovery of FAT or NTFS boot sector from its backup copy.
  • Collecting the Troubleshooting information which is then send to the lab which is specializing in data recovery.

TestDisk- A multi-platform software

The version of TestDisk which is used currently was introduced in the year 2015. Also, another utility from CGSecurity has added a while ago which is PhotoRec.

Note: You should try PhotoRec from CGSecurity if you want to recover files using GUI. PhotoRec GUI version is very user-friendly.

Extraction of the TestDisk software is from the archive, and there is no need for traditional installation. It is compatible with all versions of Windows, and it has a console interface because of which software is also compatible with DOS or Win9x. There are binary executables for Linux and Mac OS.

TestDisk also has a portable mode called TestDisk Portable, and you can run it using testdisk_win.exe.

Above all, LiveCD contains the TestDisk as a partition recovery tool.

Downloading the TeskDisk

Download the TeskDisk from the link: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download.

All the versions of TestDisk are free to download.  But if you have to use it for commercial purpose, then it’s not free. Anyone from you can support the development of the project. Also, provide your donation by clicking on the Donate button.

Conclusion

If you want to know more about TestDrive, then go to the page cgsecurity.org. Also, there is a forum where you can ask your doubts. Thus, if any time you suffer from data loss, then you must try the TestDisk software.