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(This tool is also provided in the Arch Linux Extra file repository.) View Image It turns out that it appeared in the official Ubuntu file repository that was deployed with Ubuntu 16.04. The working principle of this tool is very attractive, but it does not provide a beautiful GUI interface to help. In fact, TestDisk has been around for a while, and it was even introduced on the PCWorld website in 2011. In the end, I found a program that can really help me - TestDisk.

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I didn't realize what I did until I tried to restart the machine and switch back to Windows 7.Īt that time, I felt a slight panic and comforted my mother that I promised to solve the problem. Before this, I did not resize the Windows partition on her hard drive at all. I didn't perform a detailed analysis beforehand (it was a bit difficult to tell), and it failed to back up my mother's data.

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At that time, I tried to install dual system Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7 on my mother's laptop. I have personally experienced the above experience, because this is what happened during my most recent family reunion in upstate New York. When things happen to your own data, this is naturally terrible but when the problem occurs on someone else's machine, this feeling is unbearable.

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Therefore, depending on the amount of information to be retrieved, the tool may take days to complete this process.When you install an operating system on the PC of a friend or family member and suddenly encounter data loss, this may make you extremely frightened moreover, this is also a big event. Though the main disadvantage is that it is very slow. So, to rescue the data, you will have to attach the problem disk to the Linux working machine.ĭdrescue is a program originally born to be used in the terminal, although recently some graphical interfaces such as DDRescue-GUI have emerged that make it easier to use. Unlike many of the tools on this list, This will use your running Ubuntu partition without resorting to having to save the data to another location. This tool will help you in rescuing the data when the drive is suffering from read errors. To be able to install this tool, just type in the terminal: sudo apt-get install scalpel Ddrescueĭdrescue is a Linux tool designed to copy data from one device from one file block to another. Apart from file recovery it is also useful for digital forensic investigation. The tool visits the storage database of each block and identifies the files deleted from it and recovers instantly. This tool is based on Foremost an open source application d Developed to recover deleted information, Scalpel is significantly faster and more efficient Using the File Carving technique 'reading the database, headers, footers' of a set of image files or device files. This tool comes together with TestDisk so you must install it, only to run PhotoRec you must run the following command in terminal: sudo photorec Scalpel

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This is a free and open source multiplatform application distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLV v2 +). This application ignore the file system and do a deep search of the data, working even if your file system is badly damaged or has been reformatted.

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PhotoRec is a software designed to recover lost files including videos, documents and files from hard drives and CDRoms as well as lost images (hence the name PhotoRecovery) of the memories of cameras, MP3 players, PenDrives, etc. To install it, you can search for the application in the Ubuntu Software Center or from the terminal with the following command: sudo apt install testdisk PhotoRec If the partition table has input errors, TestDisk can repair them.

TestDisk does a quick check of your disk structure and compares it to your partition table for input errors. TestDisk check BIOS or operating system to find hard drives and their characteristics (LBA size and geometry by cylinder head sector). It was designed primarily to help recover lost data storage partitions and / or make non-bootable disks bootable again when these are caused by buggy software, certain types of viruses, or human error (such as accidentally deleting a partition table). TestDisk is a free software data recovery utility licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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