Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Installing TestDisk for Partition/Disk Recovery
How to Install and Getting Started with TestDisk Partitions Scan and Disk Recovery Tools on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS Linux.
TestDisk is 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 a 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/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
Inside the Article you’ll Find a Link to Detailed Guide on Get Started Scanning and Recovering Partitions on Ubuntu Linux.
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Open Ubuntu Software Center.
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Search for: “Partition scanner”.
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Select the Package and Click on Install.
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Getting Started Recover Disk Partitions on Ubuntu
This recovery example guides you through TestDisk step by step to recover a missing partition and repair a corrupted one.