![]() ![]() The way the cursor control is facilitated to accommodate two functions per page is actually quite clever. ![]() The options are logically laid out, the language readily understandable for anyone comfortable with command-line utilities, and you simply cursor up and down, right and left to navigate. ![]() Though character-based, TestDisk and PhotoRec are just as easy to use as a GUI-based program. For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory card you are about to recover lost data from. Being portable also makes these utilities suitable for inclusion on boot discs. PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an application for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. Simply drag the files around on your flash drive and run them from there. This may be a bit confusing for users used to installing, but it makes the apps portable, which is far more important to the techier types who are the intended audience. You simply unzip the archive to the location from which you want to run it. Running TestDisk and PhotoRec in a DOS box under Windows, there’s no mouse control–but cursoring through the programs is just as easy.You don’t install TestDisk and PhotoRec. Only, TestDisc and PhotoRec are already on the last of my CD-R's. All this is done at low level, below the operating system. Photorec ver.6.14 already exists on Hiren'S boot cd but you need: For recovery to another disk you need after first start of photorec copy directory ramdrive:\temp\HBCD to another disk and start photorec from it. Both free programs run in a DOS box or from a command line and test, report on, fix common disk boot problems, and recover files from damaged hard drives. If you’re a fan of character-based interfaces–such as DOS–and free data recovery, you’re going to love TestDisk and its companion utility, PhotoRec (a brother program included in the TestDisk download). ![]()
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