TestDisk Alternatives for Linux
There are many alternatives to TestDisk for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is R-Studio. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try GNU ddrescue or Foremost. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to TestDisk and eight of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to TestDisk are Scalpel (Free, Open Source), safecopy - Data Recovery (Free, Open Source), Scalpel 2.0 (Free, Open Source) and Scrounge NTFS (Free, Open Source).
- R-Studio is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software. View 135 alternatives to R-Studio
- GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. View 17 alternatives to GNU ddrescue
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
GNU ddrescue vs TestDisk
Because I used Four times and it did work perfectly. In fact, One time the flash drive that I was trying to recover data from was so damaged that it did NOT mount automatically, but, the ddrescue program managed successfully to fetch HUGE amount of data from that very damaged/corrupt flash drive. I would give 9/10. - Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. This process is commonly referred to as data carving. View 13 alternatives to Foremost
- Scalpel is a file carving and indexing application that runs on Linux and Windows. View 12 alternatives to Scalpel
- safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. View 9 alternatives to safecopy - Data Recovery
- Scalpel-2.0 - Scalpel; File Carving. Configuration files are modified. View 12 alternatives to Scalpel 2.0
- Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition. View 129 alternatives to Scrounge NTFS
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.8.6, released in June 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.
No screenshots yet- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Free Data recovery and Undelete software for Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS file system. Unformat , Unerase and Easy Recovery tool. View 96 alternatives to R-Linux
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux