Sunday, April 5, 2015

TestDisk Tutorial to recover damaged partitions


TestDisk is a cross-platform utility for data recovery developed primarily to help recover lost data in partitions and to repair boot disks (bootable disks), problems caused by faulty software or hardware, or human error, such as accidentally deleting partition table .

TestDisk is a tool that can restore tables damaged or overwritten partition. The
important ability to recover damaged files. Testdisk allows working with images from hard drive, USB flash drives and memory cards, so the first thing you should do is clone and work with the copy.

Recover Hard Drive - Repairing a damaged hard drive

How to repair the hard drive, or at least recover the data?



The option most likely to succeed is to go to one of the companies specialized in data recovery, since they have experience, spare parts, tools and specialized facilities. In most cases, recover data from the hard disk without problems. Only in case of catastrophic accidents such as fire has melted the plates with magnetic material, a data recovery company will not be able to recover data from the hard disk.
Request a quote for various companies, and consult their free services.

If you have no budget for ordering repair hard drive to a company, follow the guide to recover a hard drive that we present, drawn from the experiences of hundreds of technicians in hardware.

First, to recover data from a hard drive (either magnetic storage, nandflash or hybrid technology) must think -NO Repairing- otherwise in STABILISE. (A repaired disk is not reliable for continued use under any circumstances ) A disk is stabilized when we are able to keep it active for an indefinite period for access to information or replicate (clone) to a healthy unit.

If you do not use any of these services to backup your data, you'll possibly regret it later



In 2005 a fire affected the Windsor Tower in Spain. In this tower the offices of several companies, including Delloite and law firm is located. The fire caused the loss of large amounts of information and documents, which put at risk thousands of legal proceedings by lawyers of these companies.

While Delloite had backed-up all their information in sites outside the building, the law firm kept its backups in the same offices. The result of this was that Delloite returned to normal quickly, while the law firm had to rely on other organisms in the Spanish government to recover many of their documents, which affected its operations. (See news- in Spanish)

The problem of losing information