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Testdisk free recovery software
TestDisk is a free open source software which helps recovering data from a corrupt usb flash
drive. Recently my flash drive got corrupted, and was asking to be
formatted under windows once plugged in. I tried opening the pen drive under
several operating systems including windows xp, vista, windows 7, fedora,
ubuntu etc. But in most of them, “Insert a Disk into drive x” and “Drive is not formatted” error was
popping up.
As the data in my removable drive
was not that critical, I started experimenting with different free data
recovery softwares. Out of them, TestDisk, turned out to be the best in
recovering my lost FAT32 partition.
TestDisk Features
Fix partition table and recover
lost/deleted partition
Rebuild/Recover FAT32 boot sector
Fix FAT Tables
Rebuild/Recover NTFS boot sector
Undelete files from fat, ntfs and
ext2 filesystem
Copy files from deleted
partitions
Supported Operating systems: DOS,
Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Linux, MacOS X etc
How to Recover Files using
TestDisk
Common symptoms or errors seen
when a drive gets corrupted is, Windows Explorer shows primary partition as raw
or unformatted and Windows prompts this error message.
“The drive is not formatted, do
you want to format it now?”
To recover a partition or repair
a file system, you must run TestDisk with full administrator privileges. In
Windows Vista, right click Testdisk.exe and select “run as administrator”
option.
To recover partition from a media
image or repair a filesystem image, run
testdisk image.dd to create a raw
disk image
testdisk image.E01 to recover
files from an Encase EWF image
testdisk 'image.*' if the Encase
image is split into several files.
If the partition was reformatted
into other file system use these steps given below.
run TestDisk,
select the hard disk and the
partition type
choose Advanced
select the partition
choose Type,
enter the value corresponding to
the previous filesystem
choose Boot
choose RebuildBS
List
If you can see your files, choose
Write and confirm
In Analyse, choose to rewrite the
partition with the correct partition type.
Download
TestDisk
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