How to recover hardisk with test disk

Posted by getuxcom | Posted in Software, Troubleshooting | Posted on 29-05-2010

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Many recovery software that can be used for free. One of them is Test Disk 4.5 (http://www.cgsecurity.org), by Cristopher Grenier. You can find test disk on Hiren’s Boot CD and also avaiable Test Disk 6.11.3 for windows.

How to use Test Disk :

  • Download the software at http://www.cgsecurity.org
  • Reboot your computer, and change your booting priority from BIOS
  • After booting, you will use test disk, and you can found lost partition from this step
  • Choose [Analyse] and press enter
  • Then choose [Search] menu, and press enter
  • The program will search for the missing partition
  • Well. Your lost Partition will come back
  • Press enter
  • Then choose option [Write]
  • After that, you need to confirm [Y / N]
  • Type Y
  • Quit

Please reboot your computer, go into your operating system (Linux or Windows). If you are lucky, I’m sure the partitions will come back. If it has not success, you can use option [deep search].

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