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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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Recovery of files + Ubuntu Installation

I used the option, "Install in the Free Space". I intended that as I have freed-up 30GB from my 500 GB Partition (unallocated), Ubuntu would be installed there. But Ubuntu got installed on the entire disk and just shows Windows 7 as a boot entry. I…
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How can I install & run testdisk with USB

How can I install & run testdisk with USB? When I boot from HDD, i can download & install testdisk from ubuntu software center; but when I boot from USB (for the purpose of recovering my NTFS drives that were accidentally dissolved into one EXT4 by…
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How do I recover all the partitions listed in testdisk?

While trying to reinstall ubuntu alongside Windows 8.1. I chose the option erase and reinstall which formatted my hard disk. I used deep search in test disk on a live usb and got to the following screen : Now originally in Windows I had an…
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no outcomes when trying to recover files with testdisk

I've been trying to recover files with Testdisk and lately, it stopped working. on the outcome, it shows "Copy done! 0 ok, 0 failed" how do I fix it?
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TestDisk won't detect partition, but PhotoRec does

I have a small problem, I accidentally formatted one of my drives in Windows. PhotoRec finds the partition, but Testdisk doesn’t. Help would be really appreciated. EDIT: It finds the partition when partition table type is "None"
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Is 22,000,000 files and folders too many?

Long story short: I should have had a backup. Now I found myself using TestDisk to restore my entire operating system. However, it's taking a very long time to move along - at about 22 million files, I'm wondering at this point whether it's just…
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Removing Photorec recovered files

I have number of folders (over 60 folders) located in my file system folder and two folders with lock symbol on folder icon recup_dir.1, recup_dir.2 and photorec.ses. I have removed testdisk using Synaptic Package Manager. But these folders are…
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using testdisk to recover lost partitition

I was fooling around with gparted and accidentally deleted a 4Tb partition I think I performed operations with the wrong partition selected I'm not sure So I launched testdisk and search for lost partitions, found the partition, listed it's files…
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Segmentation error when trying to rebuild boot sector with TestDisk

I've been trying to recover a windows 10 C: drive using Ubuntu 20.04.4 and TestDisk. Drive became RAW for no apparent reason. I created a disk image using dd: sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of="/media/jmac150/New Volume/image.dd" bs=4K conv=noerror,sync…
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