![]() ![]() TestDisk’s website says the program is designed “to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table).” One thing to understand about storage drives is that when you delete a file or partition table, the data is still on the disk. (It’s also available in the Arch Linux Extra repo.) TestDisk to the rescue It turns out it’s in the official Ubuntu repositories that ship with Ubuntu 16.04. It works like a charm, but does so without the aid of a flashy GUI. TestDisk has been around for a while, and was even reviewed by PCWorld in 2011. It wasn’t until I tried to boot back into Windows 7 that realized what I had done.Īfter a mild panic attack and several assurances to her that I could fix it, I found the program that saved my butt: TestDisk. And not thinking (I shamefully admit), I failed to make a backup of her data before I resized her Windows partition. ![]() I was attempting to install Ubuntu 16.04 alongside a Windows 7 installation on my mother's laptop. ![]() I know because that’s the situation I found myself in during a recent family reunion in upstate New York. It’s bad enough when it happens to your own data, but when it’s someone else’s machine, the feeling can be unbearable. There’s one big event that can trigger an overwhelming sense of dread when you’re installing an OS on a friend or family member’s PC: data loss. ![]()
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