TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL).
TestDisk is a powerful free 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 faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table).
Using TestDisk you will find partition table recovery really easy.
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
· HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
· JFS, IBM`s Journaled File System
· Linux Ext2 and Ext3
· Linux Raid
· 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/2K/XP/2003 )
· 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.
Here are some key features of "TestDisk":
· 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.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Image Creation is now faster than previous version when there are bad sectors
· List and copy files from exFAT filesystem
· Improved NTFS undelete interface
