TestDisk Changelog

What's new in TestDisk 7.0

Apr 29, 2015
  • Improvements:
  • exFAT: better support
  • ext4: handle 64 bit blocks or 64 KiB blocksize. Fix detection and file listing
  • Bug fixes:
  • Avoid erroneous error when writing 512 bytes on hard disk using 4k sector
  • FAT, NTFS: avoid NULL pointer dereference if localtime() returns NULL. Thanks to Graham Sutherland for reporting this bug.

New in TestDisk 6.14.2 (Mar 11, 2014)

  • General Improvements:
  • The log file generated by the Windows version (cygwin) reports bad sectors in a more readable fashion, example: ReadFile Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
  • As openssl isn't used, don't link with this cryptographic library (Debian tries to avoid mixing GPL code and openssl)
  • TestDisk:
  • Improvements:
  • testdisk /list now displays the disk model, serial number, firmware version and hpa or dco presence if detected
  • Recover WBFS (Wii Backup File System) partition
  • Make FAT RebuildBS works when there is a single FAT table
  • Interface: Display the partition table type if autodetected
  • Interface: modified warning about mismatching geometry between FAT or NTFS boot sector and HD geometry information (Debian #651756)
  • Interface: Remove "Allow partial last cylinder" option
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix crc in EFI backup GPT
  • Rewrote how TestDisk aligns partition on cylinder or 1MB boundary. It avoids to create partition entry where the partition ends after the end of the disk.
  • PhotoRec:
  • Improvements:
  • Improve Olympus .orf recovery
  • Improve WP Mac/WP5/WP6 Corel Documents .wpd files recovery
  • Fix thumbs.db recovery, avoid some false positive with .doc
  • Interface: if less than 10 file families are enabled, display the results even if zero has been found yet
  • New file formats:
  • .aep After Effects
  • .axx AxCrypt
  • .dp Designer, a Photobook Designer Software
  • .lzh archive
  • .mmap MindManager
  • .plt Gerber Graphix Advantage
  • .prproj Adobe Premiere project
  • .psb Adobe Photoshop Image
  • .pts PTGui, panoramic stitching software
  • .qcp The QCP File Format and Media Types for Speech Data (RFC3625)
  • .shn Shorten audio file
  • .snt Windows Sticky Notes
  • .ttd TinyTag Data
  • .wallet Armory bitcoin wallet
  • .wim Windows imaging (WIM) image
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix an endless loop during .caf file recovery
  • Fix tiff recovery including some raw file formats, 64-bit version wasn't affected

New in TestDisk 6.11.3 (May 11, 2009)

  • TestDisk EFI GPT partition backup