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 DMDE. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to TestDisk and nine of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to TestDisk are safecopy - Data Recovery, Foremost, Scalpel and Scalpel 2.0.
TestDisk alternatives are mainly File Recovery Tools but may also be Hard Disk Recovery Tools or Partition Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of TestDisk.R-Studio is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
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.
GNU ddrescue vs TestDisk opinions
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.
DM Disk Editor and Data Recovery (DMDE) is a disk editor which can help you to understand NTFS. Its capable to view your hard disk sector wise, on MFT level, to disect mft attributes and to edit bytes on your hard disk.
safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, hard disk partitions, CDs, tape devices, ..., where other tools like dd would fail due to I/O error
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. Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive.
Scalpel is a file carving and indexing application that runs on Linux and Windows.
No screenshots yetScalpel-2.0 - Scalpel; File Carving. Configuration files are modified.
No screenshots yetData recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition.
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 • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
Free Data recovery and Undelete software for Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS file system. Unformat , Unerase and Easy Recovery tool.