Which Linux Hard Drive Recovery Software Should You Use?

The best hard drive recovery tools depend on whether you have deleted files, lost partition or the drive itself faces any physical problems. Testdisk can be used to find lost partitions and fix some of the partition related issues. PhotoRec is good to use when there is damage done to the file system information. GNU ddrescue is used when there is need of copying readable information from the drives which suffer from read errors. Extundelete can be used if you have lost files from an ext3/4 file system. It is important that you make sure what kind of file system and recovery capabilities your tool has before using them.
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