TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks.
It is very useful in recovering lost partitions.

It works with :
BeFS ( BeOS )
- BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
- CramFS, Compressed File System
- DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
- XBox FATX
- Windows exFAT
- HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System
- JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
- Linux btrfs
- Linux ext2, ext3 and ext4
- Linux GFS2
- Linux LUKS encrypted partition
- Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2
- Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
- LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
- Mac partition map
- Novell Storage Services NSS
- NTFS ( Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 )
- ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
- Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
- Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
- XFS, SGI's Journaled File System
- Wii WBFS
- Sun ZFS 

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover
lost pictures from digital camera memory or even Hard Disks.
It has been extended to search also for non audio/video headers.
It searches for
- Sun/NeXT audio data (.au)
- RIFF audio/video (.avi/.wav)
- BMP bitmap (.bmp)
- bzip2 compressed data (.bz2)
- Source code written in C (.c)
- Canon Raw picture (.crw)
- Canon catalog (.ctg)
- FAT subdirectory
- Microsoft Office Document (.doc)
- Nikon dsc (.dsc)
- HTML page (.html)
- JPEG picture (.jpg)
- MOV video (.mov)
- MP3 audio (MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1) (.mp3)
- Moving Picture Experts Group video (.mpg)
- Minolta Raw picture (.mrw)
- Olympus Raw Format picture (.orf)
- Portable Document Format (.pdf)
- Perl script (.pl)
- Portable Network Graphics (.png)
- Raw Fujifilm picture (.raf)
- Contax picture (.raw)
- Rollei picture (.rdc)
- Rich Text Format (.rtf)
- Shell script (.sh)
- Tar archive (.tar )
- Tag Image File Format (.tiff)
- Microsoft ASF (.wma)
- Sigma/Foveon X3 raw picture (.x3f)
- zip archive (.zip)

TestDisk and PhotoRec run under:
- Dos, Win9x
- Windows (NT 4/2000/XP/2003)
- Linux
- FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
- SunOS

Both are under GNU General Public License.

Christophe GRENIER
grenier@cgsecurity.org
http://www.cgsecurity.org/