TestDisk
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Recovers lost partitions, repairs non-booting or damaged disks, restores deleted partition tables, supports FAT, NTFS, ext, and exFAT file systems, operates via command-line, converts dynamic disks to basic, runs cross-platform without installation.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
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Install from the command line
winget install -e --id CGSecurity.TestDiskbrew install testdisk
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Comments and Reviews
Today, I managed to recover my partition table, my ntfs, ext4 and an old reiserfs partition, and save all my deleted files from the ntfs and ext4 partitions!
It has helped me so many times, in dire situations… They will be the very first people I’ll send money to when I have some again.
It’s amazing how well of a job this thing does. If you can’t restore it with this, then nothing will restore it, save for going full-on forensics, searching for byte sequence patterns in empty space and so on.
[By the way, the Ubuntu wiki has a wonderful large list of recovery tools.]
I did recovery %85 percent of my files with file names and folder structure preserved. It takes a lot of time and it doesnt have a GUI. But its free and open source
Works some of the time, takes forever. DMDE is better
The SSD in my mom's laptop crapped the bed. Other systems either wouldn't mount the drive or wouldn't recognize it at all. After a deep scan with Testdisk, it found the drive was damaged and the partition had a lot of errors, but it managed to recover most of her data regardless. Impressive!
Works as good as EaseUS, and has a GUI now. Much more lightweight than commercial options, and also has CLI.
Very efficient. I could recover all my life from a broken HD. It succed where "professional" couldn't. A big but VERY BIG THX.
By far and away best recovery software I've ever used. Has never let me down!