Press the Arrow Left/Right keys to change the D (Deleted) to Primary Bootable (the Partition with the boot sector), Primary (most times you will set it to that), Logical (this is used for storage partitions such as flash drives or a secondary partition which isn’t bootable), Extended (holds more logical drives, it can be thought of as a sub-partition. In this tutorial I won’t cover that as we want to recover partitions. You can use P to look at files and recover the files. In this picture you see my partitions that can be actively accessed without any recovery.Ī “Quick Search” will show deleted partitions in a common area of the disk.Ī list of deleted partitions. This is the screen you will get by pressing Enter after selecting your storage medium and selecting the auto-detection of the hard drive information. Just press Enter to create a new log file. Here’s what it looks like when you start TestDisk: I recommend having a LiveCD with Linux with TestDIsk in case you make a really big mistake (see the last picture) that you won’t be able to fix if you do this incorrectly as you can’t boot into Windows or your Linux based operating system, or whatever you just happen to be running TestDisk on. TestDisk should definitely be in your array of tech tools, especially if you work in business environments. ![]() ![]() However, keep in mind that I don’t use this for data recovery, just for partition recovery. That is what makes TestDisk more unique than most hard drive recovery programs. ![]() PhotoRec is a similar program made by the same authors that recovers deleted files (not just pictures) but TestDisk can recover deleted partitions as well. TestDisk is a program which gets really down and dirty with hard drives.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |