Audience
Anyone seeking a tool to recover lost partitions and make non-booting disks bootable again
About TestDisk
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. Fix partition table, recover deleted partition. Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup. Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector. Fix FAT tables. Rebuild the NTFS boot sector. Recover the 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.
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Free Version available.
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