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TestDisk is a free and open-source data recovery utility that helps users recover lost partitions or repair corrupted filesystems. [1] TestDisk can collect detailed information about a corrupted drive, which can then be sent to a technician for further analysis.
PartitionMagic [1] [2] is a utility software program for hard disk drive partitioning originally made by PowerQuest, but subsequently owned by Symantec.As of December 8, 2009, the Symantec website stated that they no longer offer PartitionMagic.
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Read/write head from circa-1998 Fujitsu 3.5" hard disk (approx. 2.0 mm x 3.0 mm) Microphotograph of an older generation hard disk drive head and slider (1990s) Noises from an old hard drive while attempting to read data from bad sectors. During normal operation, heads in HDDs fly above the data recorded on the disks.
The most common data recovery scenarios involve an operating system failure, malfunction of a storage device, logical failure of storage devices, accidental damage or deletion, etc. (typically, on a single-drive, single-partition, single-OS system), in which case the ultimate goal is simply to copy all important files from the damaged media to another new drive.
The data is then saved to the original location or to a location on the same disk; it does not save data elsewhere. In this respect, SpinRite differs from most data recovery software, which usually provides (and recommends) an option to save the recovered data onto another disk, or onto a separate partition on the same disk.
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GParted (acronym of GNOME Partition Editor) is a GTK front-end to GNU Parted and an official GNOME partition-editing application (alongside Disks).GParted is used for creating, deleting, [3] resizing, [4] moving, checking, and copying disk partitions and their file systems.