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TestDisk : Recover lost partitions

December 9th, 2008 No comments

Yesterday I was tinkering the partitions with Microsoft Disk Management in Windows XP.I’m not a big fan of it,but it’s pretty simple with that GUI.I wanted to delete my last partition and salvage some space for Linux, clicked on “Delete logical drive”. voila !!! the whole extended partition got deleted !!! so simple !

was wishing hard for an undo there. no way ! all my important files are gone in split seconds.

There came TestDisk for my rescue.

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TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software!

Within minutes all my partitions are recovered,the old MBR was restored.In windows it works in Command Line mode without any eye candy GUI, but it really serves its purpose.

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
  • Undelete files from FAT filesystem
  • Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts.

TestDisk can run under

  1. DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box)
  2. Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista)
  3. Linux
  4. FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
  5. SunOS and
  6. MacOS

It has versions for

  • Dos/Win9x, zip
  • Windows NT/XP/2000/2003/Vista
  • Linux, kernel 2.6.x i386/x86_64
  • Linux, kernel 2.4.x i386/x86_64
  • Linux i386 RPM
  • Linux SRPM
  • Mac OS X

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

  1. BeFS ( BeOS )
  2. BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
  3. CramFS, Compressed File System
  4. DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
  5. HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System
  6. JFS, IBM’s Journaled File System
  7. Linux ext2 and ext3
  8. Linux LUKS encrypted partition
  9. 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
  10. Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
  11. LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
  12. Mac partition map
    Novell Storage Services NSS
  13. NTFS ( Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 )
    ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
  14. Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
  15. Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/…)
  16. XFS, SGI’s Journaled File System

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