TestDisk

TestDisk is a powerful program that will help you recover your data. The program is suitable for beginners who need to recover accidentally deleted information, as well as for professionals involved in disk recovery. Thanks to it, the user will be able to recover lost partitions of the disc, recover partition tables and make non-booting disks bootable again (if, of course, this problem is at the software level). The user will also be able to restore the FAT32 boot sector using the backup, correct and rebuild the boot sectors and FAT tables. Similar features are available for NTFS drives, where TestDisk can rebuild the boot sector and fix the MFT using its mirror.

If you accidentally deleted a partition or damaged the partition table, TestDisk can often find the partition again and write it back, and it can undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 file systems. Testing of the disk is fast, the program has good performance. The utility is free, open source (GPL) and cross-platform: it runs on Windows, DOS, Linux, macOS and BSD in a text-mode interface. The package also includes PhotoRec, which recovers files from hard disks, digital cameras, CDs, and similar media. It recovers most image formats, many audio and video formats, as well as PDF, Microsoft Office, HTML and ZIP and RAR documents.

One main benefit of using TestDisk software is its ability to efficiently recover lost or accidentally deleted data from various storage media.