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Software errors, user errors, viruses . corrupt data on your hard drive. Don't worry, there's a free TestDisk data recovery application that helps you solve these problems.

TestDisk is really a powerful data recovery application. This software is designed to help users recover data from lost hard disk partitions or turn unbootable disks that can perform the booting work well if they are The fault of the user, the virus or the core of the user, for example, unfortunately, accidentally deleted the hard drive partition table (Partion Table).

TestDisk has features for both those who do not understand and experts.

TestDisk can operate on a variety of operating systems from DOS to open source applications: DOS, 32-bit Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003), Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS and Mac OS. This provides compatibility with many file systems of many different operating systems, including:

- BeFS (BeOS)
- BSD disklabel (FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD)
- CramFS, Compressed File System
- DOS / Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
- HFS and HFS +, Hierarchical File System
- JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
- Linux Ext2 and Ext3
- Linux Raid
- RAID 1: mirroring
- RAID 4: striped array with parity device
- RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
- RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
- Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
- LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
- Mac partition map
- Netware NSS
- NTFS (Windows NT / 2K / XP / 2003)
- ReiserFS 3.5 and 3.6
- Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
- UFS and UFS2 (Sun / BSD / .)
- XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

Usually TestDisk will ask the BIOS and the operating system to check the hard disks to reconcile the Partition Tables, if the error is generated, the application can fix it.

You can refer to detailed instructions on how to use the software at the address
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and download this software here.

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