CentOS 7.x How-to Install TestDisk and Getting-Started Recovering Disk Partitions

Recovering Partition/Disk on CentOS 7

Hello CentOS User! This Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Install and Getting Started with TestDisk Partitions Scan and Disk Recovery Tools on CentOS 7.x 32/64bit GNU/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 also a Link to Detailed Guide on How Getting-Started Scanning and Recovering Partitions on CentOS Linux.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

   Or Login into the Server Shell.

2. Download Latest TestDisk for Linux:

   Get TestDisk 32/64bit tar.bz2

   TestDisk for Linux.

   Get the Latest TestDisk Distribuition Archive 32/64bit.

3. Double-Click/Right-Click on Archive and Extract into /tmp

   Or from Command Line:

   tar xvf $HOME/Downloads/testdisk*.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/

   

4. Relocate TestDisk for CentOS Linux

   su -c "mv /tmp/testdisk* /opt/testdisk"

5. Making TestDisk Symlinks

   su -c "ln -s /opt/testdisk/testdisk_static /usr/bin/testdisk"

   su -c "ln -s /opt/testdisk/photorec_static /usr/bin/photorec"

   su -c "ln -s /opt/testdisk/fidentify_static /usr/bin/fidentify"

6. Getting-Started Recover Disk Partitions on CentOS:

   Step-by-Step Recovering Example

   TestDisk Quick-Start Guide.

   This recovery example guides you through TestDisk step by step to recover a missing partition and repair a corrupted one.

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