Data Recovery on a Formatted Drive with TestDisk by Britec

Data Recovery on a Formatted Drive with TestDisk by Britec.co.uk

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TestDisk is a 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). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can * Fix partition table, recover deleted partition * Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup * Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector * Fix FAT tables * Rebuild NTFS boot sector * Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup * Fix MFT using MFT mirror * Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock * Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem * Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.
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), * Linux, * FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, * SunOS and * MacOS X

Source files and precompiled binary executables are available for DOS, Win32, MacOSX and Linux from the download page
Filesystems

TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems: * BeFS ( BeOS ) * BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD ) * CramFS, Compressed File System * DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 * Windows exFAT * HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System * JFS, IBM's Journaled File System * Linux ext2 and ext3 * Linux LUKS encrypted partition * Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2 o RAID 1: mirroring o RAID 4: striped array with parity device o RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information o RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information * Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2) * LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager * Mac partition map * Novell Storage Services NSS * NTFS ( Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 ) * ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4 * Sun Solaris i386 disklabel * Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...) * XFS, SGI's Journaled File System
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[vvvadimir]

logical drive is seen as unidentified, but there is information. how do I restore it?

[93Berra]

@iyajom12 Yes if the files on the drive has not been overwritten.

[aruni50218]

U ruined ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NathanSGBrazil]

YOU R A SAVER!!!! THANKS!!

[iyajom12]

Actually i change operating system from win xp to win 7..can i recovered my files from that formatted win xp???Reply

[iyajom12]

how about if i formatted my HDD two times..can i recover all my files???PPPPPLLLLEAAAAAASSSSSE­EEEEEEEEE REEESSSSSSPPPOOONNNNSSSSEEEE

[972kiba]

thanks

[PavedStones]

Also, is it possible to save the recovered files on my home server? At 3:37, how do you navigate to networked machines? I do not have enough free space on the computer's hard drive and I don't have another external drive

[PavedStones]

I accidentally reformatted an external hard drive with lots of folders and sub-folders. Just a question: does Photorec restore the files in their folders the way they used to be organized or does it stuff them all in just one folder and I have to sort it all myself (thousands of photos, videos, mp3's and documents...)?

[norrkoping]

Excellent software! Recovered my crashed 1GB hrd drive. It have now crashed again though.. Thank for excellet software and guide.