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Christophe Grenier
TestDisk download contains TWO programs - TestDisk and PhotoRec. They are used on the command line in the Terminal. As a result, these programs are designed for support personnel and experienced Mac users.
The TestDisk program is 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).
It will also find accidentally deleted partitions (either
The TestDisk program is 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).
It will also find accidentally deleted partitions (either
What's New
Version 6.14:
Improvements:
- Testdisk /list now displays the disk model, serial number, firmware version and hpa or dco presence if detected
- Recover WBFS (Wii Backup File System) partition
- Make FAT RebuildBS works when there is a single FAT table
- Interface: Display the partition table type if autodetected
- Interface: modified warning about mismatching geometry between FAT or NTFS boot sector and HD geometry information
- Interface: Remove "Allow partial last cylinder" option
- Fix crc in EFI backup GPT
- Rewrote how TestDisk aligns partition on cylinder or 1MB boundary. It avoids to create partition entry where the partition ends after the end of the disk.
Version 6.14:
Improvements:
- Testdisk /list now displays the disk model, serial number, firmware version and hpa or dco presence if detected
- Recover WBFS (Wii Backup File System) partition
- Make FAT RebuildBS works when there is a single FAT table
- Interface: Display the partition table type if autodetected
- Interface: modified warning about mismatching geometry more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
TestDisk User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:17,706 |
| Version Downloads:593 |
| Type:Utilities : Optimizers |
| License:Free |
| Date:16 Apr 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price:Free |
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TestDisk download contains TWO programs - TestDisk and PhotoRec. They are used on the command line in the Terminal. As a result, these programs are designed for support personnel and experienced Mac users.
The TestDisk program is 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).
It will also find accidentally deleted partitions (either Apple Partitions, the newer EFI partitions and Windows MBR Partitons) and provide the necessary information for you to restore them using the Apple pdisk command (for Apple Partitions) or the gpt command for (for EFI partitions)
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.
PhotoRec can recover data from various filesystems including FAT, NTFS and HFS+.
The TestDisk program is 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).
It will also find accidentally deleted partitions (either Apple Partitions, the newer EFI partitions and Windows MBR Partitons) and provide the necessary information for you to restore them using the Apple pdisk command (for Apple Partitions) or the gpt command for (for EFI partitions)
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.
PhotoRec can recover data from various filesystems including FAT, NTFS and HFS+.
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Frieddylan reviewed on 07 Mar 2012
Its not an elegantly GUI'd app but that's not important really. This gets the job done efficiently and its free. Can't beat that.
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Simbasounds reviewed on 04 Mar 2012
TestDisk goes deeper than the mighty Disk Warrior to rescue drives where the file system has been completely destroyed..
Those disks that come up as being unformatted / advising initialisation? This set of tools get's right in there to diagnose and repair as far as is possible.
As far as the magnetic data goes (including boot / file system) TestDisk will confirm decisively whether your hard drive is saveable or whether it needs hardware recovery (or wether it should be used a paperweight).
Don't be put off by the Terminal-based interface. It's not "command-line" in the sense that instills terror in non-coders. It's just a series of fairly easy questions requiring one-character answers (like y for yes and n for no) in white text on a black background.
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Pedro Fardilha reviewed on 29 Nov 2011
It's an app with a CLI (command line interface) but is easy enough to remain usable for a common mortal.
THANK yo zoo much for making such a great SOS utility for free
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Zunga reviewed on 30 Aug 2011
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freenick reviewed on 07 Feb 2011
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'Operating systems
TestDisk can run under
DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),
Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7 (x86 & x64),
Linux,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
SunOS and
MacOS X
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jwtweak reviewed on 25 Jul 2009
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bcwinters reviewed on 30 May 2009
The documentation (like that of so many open source projects) is a bit arcane, and those of you who are not comfortable in the Terminal might be a little nervous about this app. But I found a walkthrough that made it dead simple.
This is a brilliant little utility that's going right into my recovery arsenal.
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The destruction manual could do with a little more info, as I didn't really believe it could do the job all by itself from what I had read, but lo and behold, it did. For free, as in beer.
If you are trying to recover a lost partition, give this a shot - especially on an intel mac, it's suhweet.
Cheers to the developer(s) for this!
(I tried to enter this as a review, but macupdate isn't loving me today. So here are my five stars *****)
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Tsehov reviewed on 17 Jul 2008
This is very capable software even when compared to those expensive apps.
Many thanks for Christophe Grenier making TestDisk and giving it free to everyone who needs it.
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Just use TestDisk to identify and repair EFI partitions on Intel Macs. It is very simple.
You only need to use the Apple pdisk command to restore damaged or accidentally deleted Apple partitions used on the older PowerPC Macs. TestDisk will not restore Apple partitions used on PowerPC Macs.