TestDisk & PhotoRec – Recover Lost Partition, Lost Files & Digital Pictures

by admin on March 20, 2010

photorec-testdisk-free-data-recovery-software Everybody experience with losing important data, digital picture, partition, file by corrupted hard disk, memory card, file damage or corrupted file by virus attack. Recently i have experienced such kind of data loss, i lost all my file on my cellphone’s memory card. It was a unexpected loss of data. The positive thing is i had backup of those data on my computer and i re-uploaded all my files and reinstall all the programs.

But what if i didn’t have a backup of my files, i would have lost all my important files. Yes it is true there is
commercial data recovery software on the internet which you can use to recover your files but it is quite expensive and you will not get the service as much as you are paying. I recently found free data recovery programs which can recovery your lost data, partition, digital photos without any cost and with 100% satisfaction. Test Disk & Photorec are two open source free data recovery software which can help you in crucial condition. Test

TestDisk is a 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.

TestDisk can

Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
Fix FAT tables
Rebuild NTFS boot sector
Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
Fix MFT using MFT mirror
Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock

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PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures (Photo Recovery) from digital camera memory and lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it’ll work even if your media’s file system is severely damaged or formatted. PhotoRec is safe to use, it will never attempt to write to the drive or memory support you are about to recover from. Recovered files are instead written in the directory from where you are running the PhotoRec program.

PhotoRec has been successfully tested with the following Digital Camera