Key recovery features With TestDisk and PhotoRec, recovery is split into two broad groups: partitions and filesystems, and photos and other images. Many recovery issues concern missing partitions.

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How to recover lost data using TestDisk This free open-source tool can save a partition that's been overwritten and recover lost files.

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