TestDisk 6.12 Release

From CGSecurity

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery program! 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 File Recovery program designed to recover lost files; including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks, CDRom and lost pictures from digital camera memory (thus, its Photo Recovery name). PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it can still find files even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted (overwritten data, of course, can not be recovered).

Version 6.12 is not yet released but a beta is available You can download the latest version from http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download.

General Improvements

fidentify, a little utility sharing PhotoRec signature database, is now build by default. It identifies the type of data contained in a file and reports the extension as seen by PhotoRec. It is similar to the Unix file command.

TestDisk

• Convert the directory name when it can't be created (Fix for Windows/Cygwin version)
• Better HPA/DCO detection: handle the case where native_max is null.
• Image Creation is now faster when there are bad sectors

PhotoRec

• PhotoRec checks for EFBIG (file too large) error when writing files. It's usefull to avoid erronous message about "no free space available" when recovering to a FAT filesystem.
• New file formats are supported:
  • .1cd Russian Finance 1C:Enterprise 8
  • .ani Windows Animated Cursor
  • .exe 16 bits windows executable (MZ NE)
  • .gp5 Guitar Pro 5 files
  • .idf MIDI Instruments Definition File
  • .mid MIDI sound file (RIFF format)
  • .qpw Quattro Pro spreadsheet
  • .r3d RED camera videos
  • .sldprt SolidWorks
  • .sql phpMyAdmin, MySQL and postgreSQL dumps
  • .svg Scalable Vector Graphics
  • .tod MPEG files
  • .url Windows Internet Shortcut .url
  • .vb Visual Basic

Link to TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.11 release notes