PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted. PhotoRec is a signature based file recovery utility. To recover your lost digital pictures or lost files, try PhotoRec. It is designed to recover files including video, documents and archives from Hard Discs and CDRom and lost pictures from digital camera memory. TestDisk can also undelete files from FAT, NTFS, exFAT and ext2 filesystem. PhotoRec is a companion program for TestDisk. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data. Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions. Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem.

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Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. 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 your Partition Table). PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an application for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks.

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