The tool addresses all common and not-so-common partition loss situations, including accidental deletion, bad sectors, malware damage, and corruption caused by a power outage. Supported operating systems: Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP.ĭiskInternals Partition Recovery is a purpose-built partition recovery tool intended for all home and business users who need to recover lost partitions and the data stored on them. Limitations on the free/trial version: None. Linux Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS, NTFS, ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4, Sun Solaris i386 disklabel, UFS, UFS2, XFS, SGI's Journaled File System, Wii WBFS, Sun ZFS. Supported file systems: BeFS, CramFS, FAT12/16/32, FATX, exFAT, HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, JFS, btrfs, ext2/3/4, GFS2, LUKS encrypted partition, Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2, RAID 1/4/5/6, Can make non-booting disks bootable again.In reality, the tool does a good job of guiding its users through the partition recovery process, but it’s certainly not as intuitive as graphical partition recovery software. Inexperienced users often shy away from TestDisk because its command-line user interface is less than inviting.

The tool was designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again, and it does a great job with both.

It runs under Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, Windows Server 2016/2012/2008/2003, DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box), Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, and macOS.

TestDisk is the most popular free partition recovery software tool.

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