TestDisk a Free Data Recovering Tool

One of my external hard drives was corrupted earlier in the week. It was my own fault for pulling it in and out of one computer's USB port and shoving it in another. I was going back and forth between 2 computers and ignoring the data writing errors I was get. In other words I didn't use the safely remove hardware option.

TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the GNU Public License. It saved the day.

Overview from WIKI:

TestDisk is a 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 your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

--Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
--Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
--Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
--Fix FAT tables
--Rebuild NTFS boot sector
--Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
--Fix MFT using MFT mirror
--Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.

Get it here.
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