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We exit the application by pressing q until testdisk is closed.

Press C to copy a deleted file then navigate to a directory where you want to save the recovered file and press C to paste it there.Īfter copying a you will be notified in a light green color " Copy done !" text Move with the arrow keys to highlight the lost file. To recover files, copy and paste them in another directory as follows, xsession-errorsĭrwxr-xr-x 1000 1001 4096 3 15:08 Downloadsĭrwxr-xr-x 1000 1001 4096 3 04:29 Documentsĭrwxr-xr-x 1000 1001 4096 2 13:35 PicturesĪfter selecting a directory, we will navigate into it and see all files and subdirectories in the selected partition.ĭeleted files will be highlighted with red. The next step is to browse to the directory in which we lost the file 3 P Linux 6137 192 8 60801 15 14 878166016 We choose the appropriate partition and select List option at the bottom of the screen. Delete all data in the partition tableĪfter selecting a recovery option we now select a partition from the disk which we previously selected. Analyse current partition structure and search for lost partitions Lets choose Advanced and see how it plays out,ĭisk /dev/sda - 500 GB / 465 GiB - ST500VT000-1DK142.We select the most appropriate choice then proceedĪt this point we can either choose Advanced or Analyze recovery options. Hint: Intel partition table type has been detected. EFI GPT partition map (Mac i386, some x86_64.) Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done. Next we choose a partition table type, by default the system will identify the correct partition table type. Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter): Next we enter a password after being prompted since this requires administrative privileges.Īfter entering the password we are redirected to another screen where we select a disk we want to recover data from. So we create a new log file by selecting create option. No Log tells testdisk not to use a log file for the recovery process.Append to add information to an existing log file.Create, to create a new log file for testdisk.The output is as follows, Use arrow keys to select, then press Enter key: To create a log file we execute the command, testdisk Rebuild boot sectors using data backups.įirst we create a log file which will store essential information pertaining data recovery and partitions.Testdisk is a command-line data recovery tool used to recover data from deleted or lost partitions. In this article we discuss how to recover such files. Testdisk is a powerful data recovery tool, its primary function is to recover lost partitions or rebuild boot sectors using data backups, these functionalities can also be used to recover lost files in Linux.