Recovery

Recovery

Undelete, carve and salvage — for the moment after the mistake, and the moment the drive starts clicking.

Two different problems: a file that was deleted, and a disk that is dying. Read a failing drive to an image first, then recover from the image — every extra pass over bad media costs you sectors.

Image a failing disk, resumably, sector by sector.

TestDisk & PhotoRec

Rebuild lost partitions, then carve files without one.

Scan, preview and recover with a native interface.

Long-standing commercial recovery for macOS.

Carve files out of an image by header and footer.

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Last updated on September 27, 2026