


If your partition is Windows based and you are unable to boot the computer you might need to set your partition as “active”. You should be able to access your files now. Click q (quit) go back to the previous screen and click enter to continue.Ĩ ) Once it finds click on and you are done, you can exit the program. If it does, this is s good sign they can be recovered as well. Press P to list your files and make sure TestDisk can list them correctly. ħ) Next TestDisk will let you choose what partition you want to explore, and at the bottom of the screen it displays the condition of its structure. ĥ) Next click on to start looking for your partition table.Ħ) Next, TestDisk will give you a preliminary list of all the partitions it found on the drive click.

TestDisk usually autodetects what you have then click. If you are using a Live CD like Ubuntu Rescue Remix, choose “No” since you can’t write to a CD anyways.Ĥ) Choose the partition type. This is useful when you want to send information to a data recovery specialist, otherwise it is unimportant choose whatever you prefer. Same goes for all other operating systems it is very easy to use.***Ģ) Start scan disk (if you are using Ubuntu Linux, make sure you start testdisk with the sudo command in front, otherwise it will not find your disks).ģ) In the initial screen it will ask you whether you would like to create a log or not. To find you lost partition table, do the following:ġ) Download TestDisk and install it *** Don’t get scared because it is text based it runs from inside Windows just like any other program.
