Download TestDisk 6.8

TestDisk allows you to restore hard drive partitions when they are lost due to a virus, software bug, or failed tweak. For example, the program can rebuild fat12, fat16, fat32 and ntfs boot sectors, repair mft files and find the ‘backup superblocks’ of ext2 and ext3 file systems. For more information, we refer you to this page. The developer has released version 6.8 of TestDisk with the following list of changes:

Version 6.8:

• Partition type is autodetected.
• TestDisk can now be used under GNU screen, the screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation. Typically, a screen can be shared by an end-user under Linux, Mac or another Unix and a remote data recovery specialist connected via SSH. It’s also possible to disconnect while keeping a long recovery session running.
• Disk geometry under Mac has been corrected (Version 6.7 affected)
• HFS partition detection has been improved to avoid false positive
• Log potential NTFS partition location from MFT & MFTMirr location while rebuilding NTFS boot sector

Version 6.7:

• Faster than previous versions: a better way to handle the sector scanning
• The Windows version of TestDisk does not use the CYGWIN implementation of pread()/pwrite() (because a bug seems present).
• TestDisk now handles partitions created under Microsoft Vista. Traditionally partitions were created on cylinder boundaries. Under Vista, they are now independent of the disk geometry: These new partitions are aligned to a 1 MB boundary, and TestDisk can now handle that as well as the old cylinder boundaries. We have also changed the advanced menu items in light of these new Vista partitions.

[break]TestDisk 6.8 is available in the following flavors:
DOS/Win9x
Windows NT/XP/2000/2003/Vista
Mac OS X
Linux tarball
Linux RPM
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