Unlike many of the tools on this list, This will use your running Ubuntu partition without resorting to having to save the data to another location. This tool will help you in rescuing the data when the drive is suffering from read errors. To be able to install this tool, just type in the terminal: sudo apt-get install scalpel Ddrescueĭdrescue is a Linux tool designed to copy data from one device from one file block to another. Apart from file recovery it is also useful for digital forensic investigation. The tool visits the storage database of each block and identifies the files deleted from it and recovers instantly. This tool is based on Foremost an open source application d Developed to recover deleted information, Scalpel is significantly faster and more efficient Using the File Carving technique 'reading the database, headers, footers' of a set of image files or device files. This tool comes together with TestDisk so you must install it, only to run PhotoRec you must run the following command in terminal: sudo photorec Scalpel This is a free and open source multiplatform application distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLV v2 +). This application ignore the file system and do a deep search of the data, working even if your file system is badly damaged or has been reformatted. PhotoRec is a software designed to recover lost files including videos, documents and files from hard drives and CDRoms as well as lost images (hence the name PhotoRecovery) of the memories of cameras, MP3 players, PenDrives, etc. To install it, you can search for the application in the Ubuntu Software Center or from the terminal with the following command: sudo apt install testdisk PhotoRec

If the partition table has input errors, TestDisk can repair them.

TestDisk does a quick check of your disk structure and compares it to your partition table for input errors. TestDisk check BIOS or operating system to find hard drives and their characteristics (LBA size and geometry by cylinder head sector). It was designed primarily to help recover lost data storage partitions and / or make non-bootable disks bootable again when these are caused by buggy software, certain types of viruses, or human error (such as accidentally deleting a partition table). TestDisk is a free software data recovery utility licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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