cgsecurity/testdisk

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

TestDisk and PhotoRec are free, open-source data recovery utilities written in C. TestDisk recovers lost partitions and repairs boot sectors/file systems, while PhotoRec recovers lost files (480+ formats) via signature-based carving from disks, memory cards, and USB drives.

Use cases

• recover a lost or deleted disk partition
• repair a corrupted boot sector on NTFS or FAT
• recover deleted photos from a camera memory card
• undelete files from an ext4 or exFAT drive
• carve files from a formatted or damaged hard disk
• recover data from a USB drive or disk image

When to choose

• you lost a partition or your disk's partition table is damaged
• you need to undelete files from FAT, NTFS, exFAT, or ext2-4
• you must recover files by signature from any storage device regardless of filesystem state
• you need a free, offline tool that works across Windows, Linux, macOS, and BSD

When to avoid

• you need a polished GUI recovery wizard (though QPhotoRec offers a simple GUI)
• you expect recovery of files overwritten by new data
• you need RAID or enterprise-grade recovery with vendor support
• you want a tool that preserves original file names and directory structure when carving with PhotoRec

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

file-system security developer-tools files security developer-tools cross-platform windows cli cross-platform data-recovery photorec partition-recovery file-carving filesystem-repair digital-forensics linux macos

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