081230 testdisk-6.10 [VL 6.0]

[caitlyn]

toothandnail has packaged testdisk, a partition and data recovery suite, for VL 6.0.  He adds:

"Warning: I originally built this to fix a dead Windows box, which it did very well. However, testdisk is potentially dangerous, and, since I do not use reiserfs, has only been tested with xfs. No warranties are given - if you break it, you own both halves. Use at your own risk....."

Package:  testdisk-6.10-i586-1vl60.tlz
MD5:  92ca74b87e632b29ccc9f96b8a2a1512
Package Size:  1045K
Installed Size:  4140K

Sources: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-6.0/source/testing/base-apps/testdisk

Code:

testdisk: testdisk (a partition and data recovery suite)
testdisk:
testdisk: testdisk checks partition and boot sectors of disks, and is very
testdisk: useful in recovering lost partitions. Its companion, photorec is a
testdisk: file data recovery software originally designed to recover pictures
testdisk: from digital camera memory. It has now been extended to search for
testdisk: other lost data.
testdisk: License: GPL
testdisk: Authors: Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
testdisk: Website: http://www.cgsecurity.org

After testing this package please stop back and let us know how it works for you.

[MikeCindi]

Just used photorec (part of the testdisk utils) to recover a "lost" .pst file for Outlook. It recovered 33 potential files and several were "corrupt" such that after running scanpst.exe there was no data but it did recover the lost file. I was able to run this as a user (vs. root).