![]() If you are running a high specification system, any utility is going to take it’s time. Many users have reported that it takes longer to read the instructions than it does to perform the data recovery! Take this advice with a pinch of salt. Navigation is easy using the up, down, left and right cursor. Menus are logically presented and the language easy to understand. Although this is a text only tool, the command line is simplistic to use. There are plenty of websites that offer TestDisk as a free download. It has features to appeal to the uninitiated! However the best thing about TestDisk is that a user doesn’t need to know about data recovery techniques. Its primary function is to make non-booting disks, bootable again – especially where faulty software, viruses or overwritten data is to blame. ![]() What’s more – TestDisk even works on Xbox and Wii! Working on FAT, XFS, NTFS and ext2 file systems, a user can recover and rebuild boot sectors, fix FAT and MFT tables and find lost partitions, amongst a plethora of other additional features. It is a command line tool, so there is no easy GUI interface to work with, but it is still a powerful and intuitive utility. TestDisk is an open source utility for recovering data after logical corruption, accidental deletion or even repairing damaged files.
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