Test Disk - How to Recover Files from a Faulty Hard-Drive

Author: Brad Brockmeier
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TestDisk is a useful application for retrieving files from a damaged disk/partition. This video will show a quick way to recover files from faulty hard drives. While TestDisk does have other features, I am not well-versed in them. Software used to create video: FFMPEG YouTube Video Editor

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  1. i have 500GB WD HDD (2.5)

    when i put in to my laptop then it shows Bad Disk in disk management because of its protected by bios password can you help me sir..
    &
    yaa data is not important
  2. error reading sector when i tried to recover files from hard disk partition
  3. Is anyone have an issue with no "undelete" button? I have "Type" "Image Creation" and "Quit".
  4. thx bro :D
  5. For the save destination, why does it not allow saving to an external drive? A friend asked me to help recover files from his 1TB drive. I also have a 1TB ext. drive, but TestDisk only shows directories in the user home folder. That is pretty useless, eh?
  6. My micro sd is not being recognized. help!
  7. ok what about external hard drive which dosn’t work (dosn’t appear when I open my computor ) and I’m using windows not linux ? thank you :)
  8. Thank you so much!
  9. When entering the advanced section I don't get the 'List' option, only 'Type', 'Boot', 'Undelete', 'Image Creating' and 'Quit'

    Is there any way to work around this?
  10. Hi, I need help :/ When i go to "advanced" it says no partition available. On a tutorial online it told me to go to choose "Analyze" so i did that but i get the message Partition: Read error. It gives me the option to quick search but when i do it goes terribly slow since it's analyzing almost 60 000 files. Am i doing something wrong? :/ please helpp
  11. Hi Brad,

    I have a few concerns that maybe you can help me out with. My hard drive is from an old Dell Laptop which i think it should be Intel partition type but TestDisk identified my devise as EFI GPT. When I to click into the recommended partition type (EFI GPT), it does not show partitions it shows 1 P MS Reserve and 2 P MS Data (they show both twice). I am stuck from here would I be able to recover my files still?

    Jordan
  12. once it sees the damaged disk it does not give me the list option. I only get type, image creation, quit
  13. drive E: - 209 GB / 195 Gib - CHS 25495 255 63 is on top of No partition available
  14. Once I chose the disk that is damaged, then I chose intel partition, it gives me
    No partition available. what could be my problem??
  15. thanks brad
  16. do u start testdisk from a command prompt ?
  17. When I try to copy files it fails to do so..
  18. Thank You So Much!! I recover files from damaged 2,5 Laptop Hard Drive :D
  19. To Arash:
    Is the problem that you can't find the drive, or that you get an error when you attempt to copy the files?
    If it is the former, make sure that you have mounted the drive, and you know the mount point.
    If it is the latter, then send a reply with the error message.

    Also, I can't seem to reply to your comment directly, your message lacks a reply button.