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TestDisk - powerful cross-platform disk recovery tool
by Jason Clarke Jun 11th 2007 at 11:00AM
The nightmare scenario: your computer won't boot. The drive seems healthy otherwise; you can access it when booting from another drive, but for some reason your drive absolutely refuses to boot. Take heart, it's possible that it can be fixed by TestDisk, a very powerful cross-platform partition recovery tool. TestDisk was created to try to help users recover from seemingly unrecoverable scenarios. There are many things that can happen, due to either user error, or nefarious software that can cause a drive to become unbootable, but still otherwise contain all the same data. TestDisk can handle the majority of these situations. Amazingly, TestDisk can handle a massive list of file systems, and can be run under any of the following environments:
- DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),
- Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003),
- Linux,
- FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
- SunOS and
- MacOS
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JSoon said 12:23PM on 6-11-2007
I admit it is pretty cool somehow I feel much safer using an online backup service such as Mozy.
If you feel like it
Please use this link for +256MB
for your account
https://mozy.com/?code=PPY7TH
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Tim said 4:30AM on 6-12-2007
I haven't used this tool but I have used PhotoRec by the same CGSecurity. Great tool. My wife had deleted pictures, formatted the SD card and taken new pictures but I was still able to pull almost all the photos she thought she had lost.
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