TestDisk 6.9 Release

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TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery program! 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 your Partition Table).

PhotoRec is a File Recovery program designed to recover lost files; including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks, CDRom and lost pictures from digital camera memory (thus, its Photo Recovery name). PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it can still find files even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted (overwritten data, of course, can not be recovered).

Final version 6.9 is not yet released but a beta is available You can download the latest version from http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download.

General Improvements

TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.9 comes with numerous improvements:

  • They are compatible with ntfsprogs 2.0, the latest library version for accessing NTFS partitions.
  • EFI GUID Partition Table is now supported. EFI GPT is mainly used on Itanium, MacBook and Mac Pro.
  • Both utilities can use sudo if the user is not root, this functionnality will be enabled for at least MacOSX, so users won't have to go into a command line.
  • The MacOSX screen is also better supported.

TestDisk

  • New file system support has been added: encrypted LUKS, Mac HFSX, Linux Raid md 1.0/1.1/1.2 (0.9 was already supported).
  • UFS, UFS2 file systems are now identified better.
  • TestDisk 6.9 now handles a Mac partition table partially overwritten by an Intel partition.
  • It displays unicode filenames correctly, and can handle unicode filesnames while copying files from an NTFS partition when supported by the underlying libraries.
  • TestDisk warns if the media is in read-only instead of read-write access.

PhotoRec

  • For ext2/ext3 file systems, PhotoRec 6.9 can search in the whole space or in unallocated space only. This feature was already available for FAT and NTFS filesystem.
  • It has better session support which allows a recovery to be stopped and restarted later.
  • New file formats are supported: Acronis True Image .TIB, AutoCAD's .DWG and PowerTab .PTB, Cineon image file/SMTPE DPX .DPX, Comic Life .comicdoc, HP Photosmart Photo Printing Album .albm, KeepAssX .KDB, Maya .MB and .MP, Microsoft OneNOte .one file, Microsoft Visual Studio Resource file .RES, Microsoft VB's .CLS, Outlook .MSG, QuickBook .FST, SketchUp .SKP, Vmware .vmdk and WinSpec .SPE.
  • It fixes Mac Address Book and Outlook 64-bits .PST recovery; also NTFS 'free space' recovery.
  • Support for .MOV, .ZIP, FastTrackerII Extended Module .XM and ACE archive has been improved.
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