And for those advanced users familiar with the area will find it to be a useful tool for performing onsite recovery. For novice users that have little experience with data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be utilized to gather comprehensive data about a non-booting drive that can be provided to an experienced user on a support forum or an IT professional. Using terminal commands such as cd (change directory), navigate to the folder where you downloaded or installed TestDisk. TestDisk will appeal to novice and expert users alike with features for both. Mac OS X (PowerPC) Starting TestDisk or PhotoRec Open the Terminal program found in the /Applications/Utilities folder. Additionally, you are provided with the capability to undelete files from exFAT, ext2 filesystems, FAT, NTFS, and copy files from deleted exFAT, FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions. You can also rebuild an NTFS boot sector, recover NTFS boot sector from its backup, fix MFT using MFT mirror and locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock. It can repair a partition table, recover deleted partitions, recover FAT32 boot sector from its primary backup, rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector and fix FAT tables.

This utility is designed to be easy for partition table recovery. TestDisk is aimed at recovering lost partitions, making non-booting disks bootable due to software issues, viruses as well as human error.

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