TestDisk
TestDisk can convert dynamic disks to basic disks.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- File Recovery
- Hard Disk Recovery
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
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I don't normally post reviews and didn't have an account before this however, This utility deserves to be on the top of the list. An NTFS partition was not recognized after unplugging an external drive. EaseUS wanted $70 for me to transfer the files from the drive and to wipe it. This utility left the files on the drive and recovered the GPT in 5 selections and a restart.
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.]
Imposible instal only to professional not to comum people
works great in windows but i have no idea how to install on mac. :-(
This data recovery and disk repair utility should be in everyone's toolbox. It is a useful and well-designed program that can perform many recovery and repair functions better than most commercial software.
Open source, free (as in beer) and free (as in speech), runs on all major platforms, handles a huge range of disk formats. Excellent new tool for my repair toolbox!
It wasn't able to restore any files as it said my filesystem was damaged, but EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard did. I'm sure this is good software, as it found that old partition, but couldn't get to the files. Anyway, be sure to try this and then EaseUS if it doesnt work.