You are always welcome to support the development of the project and make a donation by clicking “Donate”. In general, all the versions of this software have been free unless used for commercial purposes. TestDisk was first released back in the 90s, and the fact that it is still used today means that the software is remarkably good.

At the same time, it can help repair corrupt or lost hard drive partitions. TestDisk builds are listed on CGSecurity page. TestDisk is a free tool for recovering lost data. It is an optimal way of booting after an OS crash as well as recovering partitions or transferring files from one partition to another.Ĭheck Testdisk live cd's Downloading TestDisk On top of that, TestDisk is included as a partition recovery tool in several LiveCD. For Linux and Mac OS there are binary executables. In general, due to having a console interface, the app is also compatible with Dos/Win9x. TestDisk is perfectly compatible with Windows, including the most popular Windows 7 and 10. Consequently, TestDisk has a portable mode TestDisk Portable and can be run using testdisk_win.exe. The software doesn’t need traditional installation and you only need to extract TestDisk and PhotoRec from the archive.

PhotoRec has GUI-version (QPhotoRec), with an intuitive user-friendly shell and settings. If you want to recover files using Graphic User Interface, try PhotoRec from CGSecurity. By the way, on their official page you can find a beta version of TestDisk 7.1, and we’re going to have a look at it after the release of its final version. The currently used version of TestDisk was released a while ago, as well as another utility from CGSecurity – PhotoRec. Testdisk: Partition table type TestDisk is cross-platform tool

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