

TestDisk is perfectly compatible with Windows, including the most popular Windows 7 and 10. Consequently, TestDisk has a portable mode TestDisk Portable and can be run using testdisk_win.exe.

The software doesn’t need traditional installation and you only need to extract TestDisk and PhotoRec from the archive. 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. This directory (testdisk-7.0-WIP) has program info files and a link to the online documentation.Testdisk: Partition table type TestDisk is cross-platform tool Right click on photorec_static and select run in terminal. Right click on testdisk_static and select run in terminal. This will put all the contents in a named directory (testdisk-7.0-WIP). Open with Xarchive, select all, and select extract. The downloaded package will be .bz2 that has both programs in it. TestDisk & PhotoRec are portable applications, extract the files and the applications are ready to be used. TestDisk detects numerous filesystem including NTFS, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, BeFS, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Linux Raid, Linux Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS, ReiserFS, UFS, XFS. If you have lost partition or strange problem with your hard disk partitions, run TestDisk to recover your 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. 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.
