BT PACKAGE REQUEST: testdisk [and photorec] for data recovery
poking around backtrack 4 pre-final, I was looking for data recovery tools, and one came highly recommended from #remote-exploit called autopsy, but... it didnt do specifically what I needed (at least I couldnt find this option if indeed it does exist?) = recovering a formated disk + overwritten MBR... here's the reason why I needed to do such a thing ;
the other day I ended up wiping my disk _entirely_ MBR and all, from an idiotic mistake during installation of a win7 VM... I wont get into the details, except to say that testdisk saved my butt!! big time, not only did it recovery my old boot sector, but it also recovered ALL 8x of my partitions that had gotten wiped... absolutely amazing! soo, I am here to plead it's case, and worth in your amazing backtrack distribution...
photorec is another tool which has its uses as well, and comes with/is a part of testdisk. btw, both apps are licensed by the GPL, and as it stands now testdisk and/or photorec already comes pre-installed on other liveCD distro's so I dont think there'd be any issue with combining it with BT4?! [besides, I think this would be the first tool of it's type/caliber on backtrack, if i am not mistaken?? + the disk size of the tool/s are pretty small tool]
I guess I should post exactly what testdisk can do ;;
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TestDisk can
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.
TestDisk can run under
- DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),
- Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista),
- Linux,
- FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
- SunOS and
- MacOS
TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems:
thanks for taking the time to listen/read my request, many thanks for such a great distro!
using bt4 live cd to recover corrupt partition
thanks for the info but i havent tried it yet.. does it has a command line to use in the terminal especially using the live cd? or i just have simply follow the instructions then its done after a few steps? pardon me because im just newbie here :confused:
