It was originally intended to recover lost partitions and fix boot issues, but its developers have gradually turned it into the multi-purpose file recovery software it is today.ĭespite being completely free, TestDisk supports most file formats and file systems, including FAT16 and FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, HFS, HFS+, ext2/3/4, LVM and LVM2, ReiserFS, and others.

It runs on many operating systems, including the newest versions of macOS (the users of macOS Catalina can install TestDisk via Homebrew, but there are some known issues). TestDisk is an open-source, freeware file recovery software application licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Supported Languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. Supported Mac OSs: Mac OS X 10.6 and newer.

The free version can only preview files.

Restores data from Android and iOS devices.

Included for free in the basic version of Disk Drill are Recovery Vault and Guaranteed Recovery, two handy data protection features that allow Disk Drill to monitor your file deletion activity and retain metadata so that you can quickly and easily recover any deleted file with 100% success rate.

Click Recover again to perform the recovery.

Preview recoverable files and select a new storage location for restored data.

Select the storage device, then click Search for lost data at the bottom-right corner of the window.

Launch the application and locate the storage device from which you want to recover deleted files.

Download and install Disk Drill for Mac.

Reset trial software for mac