







Latest stable version 7.1

July 7, 2019

TestDisk, Data Recovery

TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (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 systems

TestDisk can run under

DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),

or in a Windows 9x DOS-box), Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, Windows Server 2016/2012/2008/2003

Linux,

FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,

SunOS and

MacOS X

Download binary executables and source files for DOS, Win32, MacOSX and Linux.

Documentation

To recover lost pictures or files from digital camera or harddisk, run the PhotoRec command.

Filesystems

TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems:

BeFS ( BeOS )

BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )

CramFS, Compressed File System

DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32

XBox FATX

Windows exFAT

HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System

JFS, IBM's Journaled File System

Linux btrfs

Linux ext2, ext3 and ext4

Linux GFS2

Linux LUKS encrypted partition

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 Swap (versions 1 and 2)

LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager

Mac partition map

Novell Storage Services NSS

NTFS ( Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 )

ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4

Sun Solaris i386 disklabel

Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)

XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

Wii WBFS

Sun ZFS

TestDisk home: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk.

TestDisk forum: https://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/