Download Testdisk & PhotoRec 7.0

A few weeks ago, version 7.0 of TestDisk and PhotoRec was released. TestDisk is an open source and cross platform utility that can fix problems on the hard drive, such as inaccessibility of partitions or a broken boot sector. PhotoRec, which is part of TestDisk, is a data recovery program and can recover files that have been lost. Downloads are available for dos, windows, linux, os x and even some nas models. The changelog for this release can be found below.

General Improvements

Various fix including security fix, thanks to

• Coverity scan (Static Analysis of source code)
• afl-fuzz (security-oriented fuzzer).
• Denis Andzakovic from Security Assessment for reporting an exploitable Stack Buffer Overflow

TestDisk

Improvements

• exFAT: better support
• ext4: handle 64 bit blocks or 64 KiB blocksize. Fix detection and file listing

bug fixes

• Avoid erroneous error when writing 512 bytes on hard disk using 4k sector
• FAT, NTFS: avoid NULL pointer dereference if localtime() returns NULL. Thanks to Graham Sutherland for reporting this bug.

PhotoRec & QPhotoRec

QPhotoRec is a Graphical User Interface (Qt based GUI) version of PhotoRec. More user friendly, it recognizes the same file formats.

PhotoRec remains recommended for advanced users, it can stop a recovery and resume it later, it recovers more fragmented files when brute-force technology is enabled and expert mode is available.

Improvements

• Reduced false positives for more than 80 file formats.
• .gif: fix filesize detection
• .flv: add Flash filesize detection
• .mpg: detect filesize for MPEG
• .ra: detect filesize for RealAudio3
• Improved algorithm to deal with data fragmentation resulting in a general speed increased
• Speedup brute force mode. Brute-force mode can recover more fragmented files, but it’s still slow and not 100% reliable. You can enable it in PhotoRec Options menu.

New file formats recovered by PhotoRec:

• .3dm: Rhino / openNURBS
• .ari: ARRI Raw Video
• .camrec: Camtasia Studio
• .dad: Micae DVR
• .dcm: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
• .fp12: FileMaker Pro 12
• .kra: Krita
• .mlv: Magic Lantern Video
• .notebook: SMART notebook
• .ora: Mypaint
• .red: RED2 video format
• .rlv: Revelation password
• .vbm: Veeam Backup Metadata
• .woff: Web Open Font Format