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TestDisk is a free data recovery utility. Usually associated with Photorec

TestDisk is 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).

bib ref : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

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Can't boot into Windows 7 EFI GPT after recovery operation

My question, or rather issue, is in the extent of this previous case in which I wanted to grow my Linux (ext4) partition. The partition /dev/sda6 was in the way of doing this and since it contained bios_grub I didn't touch it until someone with…
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How to Install Testdisk in Ubuntu 13.10

I am unable to install testdisk in Ubuntu 13.10 from Live Disk. I am using USB drive to run ubuntu 13.10. I want to recover some data from Windows partition. I am unable to install testdisk. It is a tar.bz2 file. I have extracted it in a…
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testdisk: "Warning: number of (heads/cylinder|sectors per track) mismatches 255 (FAT) != 64 (HD)"

TL;DR: How do I get rid of the warnings in the subject line when everything else looks sweet? I'm getting the following output when running testdisk's Analyze on a 64GB SD card: TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013 …
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How to recover files from a given directory using photorec

I want to recover some files using PhotoRec. Although I've used it before, I am not familiar with making it look only in one given directory. Any idea how to do it?
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need to recover data from a data hard disk that I used testdisk on in my attempt to repair mbr from a rootkit virus

Before I begin to say what my situation is here, please know i would be FOREVER GRATEFUL for anyone who can help me out with this mess. I have photos on here from years and years of painstaking work. I am a semi-pro photographer and my hard disk…
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testdisk is showing wrong size of drive

I'm trying to recover the data of a damaged hard drive using testdisk. I did all good, did the quick search, the deeper seach, and then, after confirming that my files had been found by testdisk, I wrote the partition table. and restarted the…
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Help with corrupted NTFS partition

My Ubuntu isn't able to mount a partition. It suddenly became unreadable because of a corrupt Master File Table. chkdsk /f is unable to correct it, saying: Windows will now check the disk. Corrupt master file table. Windows will attempt to recover…
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What's filling up my root directory?

I have a 120gb SSD which is dedicated to /root and a separate HDD for /home but for some reason my root drive is full and I can't see why. I've tried autoclean autoremove and clean but it hasn't helped. I've been having problems with lightdm and…
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Can I open Synaptic Package Manager in a Ubuntu Live CD session?

thats the question. i screwed my harddrive and need to repair it in ubuntu live cd session with test disk that I Have to install with synaptic Package Manager, and I don-t know how to open in this live CD session. I cant even enter operative system…
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TestDisk 7.0 doesn't have undelete option

I tried using TestDisk 7.0 to undelete a few videos I made a week ago, but the undelete option doesn't show up. I tried the list/copy option instead but it doesn't seem to work either. They just show up as a 10 second display of other random image…
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How to recover lost data after installing Ubuntu 16.04

This has been asked quite a few times before but I want to add something extra hence a new question. Please take a moment before marking it as a duplicate. I had dual booting with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 15.04 but later thought would replace it with…
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Broken Ext4: Why are all superblock backups missing?

After running a program for disk diagnostic made available by Seagate, my disk became blank. I was able to recover all the partitions with TestDisk, and their files are there just like before, except for one Ext4. TestDisk shows it, but the files…
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Recovering a partition with no valid superblocks

My system had these partitions: DellUtility Windows 7 Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit) - extended /home - extended virtualbox - extended swap - extended (A Dell box with Ubuntu dual-boot and seperate home / "other data" partitions) Sequence of Events Distro…
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Can I use testdisk to recover the Windows partition over which Ubuntu was installed?

I got a new Windows 7 laptop, tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 for dual boot and messed up my hard drive partitions. So opted for a clean install of Ubuntu by formatting the entire disk. (Which makes my question different from this one, How to recover…
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windows 10 major update wiped GRUB, how do I recover partitions properly?

Windows 10 + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS dual boot on a Lenovo Laptop.. after getting nagged about an update... I have been dumped into the grub rescue screen grub rescue> and a lot of the help for dual boot linux users seemed to rely on ls showing you a…
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