The essential information is located and displayed for the user but there is nothing flashy about this application's interface. The standard interface for both TestDisk and PhotoRec is essentially a DOS window inside of the Microsoft Windows OS, with a test-based display. There are also multiple versions of both packages for several other operating systems including Mac and various distributions of Linux. TestDisk & PhotoRec requires Windows NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, or Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit supported). There was no malicious software included with either installation. The installation of both TestDisk and PhotoRec went smoothly. There is also another version known as QPhotoRec which is a graphical version of PhotoRec. TestDisk and PhotoRec can be installed separately. If a small portion of data relating to some photos can be recovered while the rest of the data cannot, this package will do its best rather than failing to recover the partition and giving up on data recovery altogether as some other file recovery programs might do. With PhotoRec, the partition master tables and information confirming the location of files may be lost, but this software package is capable of searching for data types across a media (hard drive, CD, SD card, etc.) regardless of the state of the storage media. The software works to recover the underlying data rather than worrying too much about recovering the file partition or repairing the hard drive or storage media.

The PhotoRec program is aimed at file recovery centered around video, images, documents, and other types of files that contain data, words, images, and so forth. Whether it is a lost partition or the media is having booting problems, these issues caused by badly performing software or viruses are fixable by using the TestDisk program. It can also help with hard disks and other previously bootable storage that has temporarily lost its bootable aspects. This package can help to recover partitions that have been lost. The TestDisk program is aimed at data recovery.

The TestDisk & PhotoRec package comprises of two separate applications: TestDisk and PhotoRec. Â˜… Winner of Best Recovery Tool in 2017. ' A tool to check and undelete partitions.'

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