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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

TestDisk : free data recovery utility

TestDisk is a free data recovery utility. It was primarily designed to help recover lost data storage 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 erasing a partition table).


Latest release 6.11 / 2009-04-19; 22 days ago
Platform Multiplatform
Type Data recovery
License GNU General Public License
Website www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Monday, May 11, 2009

PhotoRec: data recovery software tool

PhotoRec is a data recovery software tool designed to recover lost files from digital camera memory (CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Secure Digital, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, USB flash drives etc.), hard disks and CD-ROMs. It recovers most common photo formats, including JPEG, and also recovers audio files including MP3, document formats such as Microsoft Office, PDF and HTML, and archive formats including ZIP.

PhotoRec does not attempt to write to the damaged media you are about to recover from. Recovered files are instead written to the directory from where you are running PhotoRec or any other directory you choose. PhotoRec is shipped with TestDisk.


Latest release 6.11 / 2009-04-19; 22 days ago
Operating system Cross-platform
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec