TestDisk

TestDisk
TestDisk on Fedora 14 (Linux)
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Maintainer	Christophe Grenier
Current  version	7.1 ( July 7, 2019 )
operating system	DOS , Linux , BSD , macOS , Windows
programming language	C.
License	GPL ( Free Software )
German speaking	Yes
Website

TestDisk is a command line utility for data recovery on disks - partitions .

It is developed by Christophe Grenier in the C programming language and distributed as free software also in the source code under the conditions of version 2 or higher of the GNU General Public License (GPL) in a set with the PhotoRec carving software . In all of the more popular Linux distributions , it can be installed directly from the standard package sources using the package manager .

Supported Operating Systems

TestDisk runs on the following operating systems :

• DOS : FreeDOS , Windows 9x or DOSBox
• Windows
• Linux
• BSD
• Oracle Solaris
• macOS

Supported file systems

TestDisk recognizes the following types of partition tables :

• Apple Partition Map
• GUID Partition Table
• PC / Intel partition table in the master boot record
• Solaris disklabel
• Xbox FATX

It can also handle unpartitioned disks.

Partition recovery

TestDisk requires the BIOS or an operating system to read the hard disk. TestDisk can

• restore deleted partitions
• Restore partition tables
• recreate the master boot record (MBR)

TestDisk examines the structure and integrity of a hard drive. It then looks for partitions not listed in the MBR. The following file systems are recognized:

• Be File System ( BeOS )
• BSD disklabel
• CramFS , Compressed File System
• DOS / Windows FAT 12, 16 and 32
• Windows exFAT
• HFS , HFS + and HFSX, Hierarchical File System
• JFS , IBM's Journaled File System
• Linux ext2 , ext3 and ext4
• Linux soft RAID (RAID 1, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 6)
• Linux swap (version 1 and 2)
• LVM and LVM2, Linux
• Novell Storage Services (NSS)
• NTFS (Windows NT)
• ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
• Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
• Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun, BSD ...)
• XFS , SGI's Journaled File System

File system repair and file recovery

TestDisk can repair or recover deleted files from the following file systems:

• FAT ( FAT12 , FAT16 , FAT32 )
• NTFS
• ext ( ext2 , ext3 , ext4 )
• HFS +

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.cgsecurity.org .
2. ↑ Debra Littlejohn Shinder, Michael Cross (2002). Scene of the cybercrime , page 328. Syngress. ISBN 978-1931836654 .
3. ↑ Ido Perelmutter - Debian Administration, Recovering from file system corruption using TestDisk (English)
4. ↑ Jack Wiles, Kevin Cardwell, Anthony Reyes (2007). The best damn cybercrime and digital forensics book period , page 373. Syngress. ISBN 978-1597492287 .
5. ↑ Advanced FAT Repair (English)
6. ↑ NTFS boot sector and MFT repair (English)
7. ↑ Locate ext2 / ext3 / ext4 backup superblock (English)

Web links

• TestDisk on cgsecurity.org