

Step 1: The first step is creating a Recovery location for your data.

DOING SO CAN OVERWRITE THE PREVIOUSLY DELETED FILES RESULTING IN CORRUPTED FILE RECOVERY. Use TestDisk to Recover Lost Data and Partitions from Corrupt and Damaged Disks WARNINGĭO NOT STORE THE RESTORED FILES ON THE SAME PARTITION WHOSE FILES YOU ARE RECOVERING. In the case of a power cut, you should be able to pause or stop the Scanning and Data Recovery process yourself. So make sure you have some sort of power backup. Sudden Interruption in the recovery process can be bad for both, the host computer as well as the damaged storage device. A Hard Drive Adaptor or Enclosure if the disk in question is internal in nature i.e., internal Desktop or Laptop Hard Disks of other computers.A Host Computer to run the Data Recovery program.If the corrupt disk is actually a removable media like an External HDD, or a USB flash drive, then you can just connect it your computer, and start using it.Install and run TestDisk from that Linux Live USB. If the disk is unbootable, then you have to boot your computer using a Linux Live USB.If you are in the early stages of disk loss, or if you have accidentally deleted or lost a partition then you can run TestDisk from within windows.Extract the downloaded TestDisk Zip (.zip file).Download TestDisk from their official download page mentioned below:.Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock.Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS, and ext2 filesystem.Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS, and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32, and NTFS boot sector.Recover FAT32, and NTFS boot sector from its backup.Fix FAT tables, and MFT using MFT mirror.

Fix partition table, and recover deleted partitions.

