
PhotoRec has GUI-version (QPhotoRec), with an intuitive user-friendly shell and settings. If you want to recover files using Graphic User Interface, try PhotoRec from CGSecurity. By the way, on their official page you can find a beta version of TestDisk 7.1, and we’re going to have a look at it after the release of its final version. The currently used version of TestDisk was released a while ago, as well as another utility from CGSecurity – PhotoRec. Both applications are included in the download package.Testdisk: Partition table type TestDisk is cross-platform tool PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. PhotoRec is free - this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU General Public License (GPLV v2+).

This means that while using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.

Important: As soon as a pic or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pics or files to that memory device or hard disk drive otherwise you may overwrite your lost data.

PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.įor more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory card you are about to recover lost data from. PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory.
