What's new in TestDisk & Photorec 7.0
Jul 2, 2016
- TESTDISK:
- 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.
- PHOTOREC & QPHOTOREC:
- Improvements:
- Reduced false positives for more than 80 file formats.
- .gif: fix filesize detection
- .flv: add Flash filesize detection
- .mpg: detect filesize for MPEG
- .ra: detect filesize for RealAudio3
- Improved algorithm to deal with data fragmentation resulting in a general speed increased
- Speedup brute-force mode. Brute-force mode can recover more fragmented files, but it's still slow and not 100% reliable. You can enable it in PhotoRec Options menu.
- New file formats recovered by PhotoRec:
- .3dm: Rhino / openNURBS
- .ari: ARRI Raw Video
- .camrec: Camtasia Studio
- .dad: Micae DVR
- .dcm: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
- .fp12: File Maker Pro 12
- .kra: Krita
- .mlv: Magic Lantern Video
- .notebook: SMART notebook
- .ora: Mypaint
- .red: RED2 video format
- .rlv: Revelation password
- .vbm: Veeam Backup Metadata
- .woff: Web Open Font Format
New in TestDisk & Photorec 6.14 (Apr 16, 2012)
- 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
- .mmap MindManager
- .plt Gerber Graphix Advantage
- .prproj Adobe Premiere project
- .snt Windows Sticky Notes
- 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 & Photorec 6.13 (Nov 15, 2011)
- General Improvements:
- Fix UAC manifests for Windows, so users don't need to use right-click "Run As Administrator"
- TestDisk:
- Fix image creation, image.dd file wasn't created (Regression introduced in 6.12)
- Detect Vmware VMFS partition
- Locate lost GFS2 partition but not yet the size
- Log HDD serial number and firmware revision
- List NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS)
- PhotoRec:
- Session recovery restarts at the previous location
- Better MPEG recovery, there should be less concatenated videos.
- Better JPG recovery, there should be less cases where thumbnails were recovered instead of the picture itself.
- Handle large avi files using "AVIX" or mov files using 64-bit chunk size.
- Rename recovered pdf using the title (not perfect)
- Major cleanup of PhotoRec core code
- New file formats:
- .caf Core Audio Format
- .dardar3 archive
- .ddf Didson Data File (v3 and v4)
- .gcs GCstart (personal collections manager)
- .gam Games Factory
- .hdf Hierarchical Data Format 4
- .hdr ENVI
- .max 3ds
- .oci OpenCanvas Image .oci
- .par2 archive
- .psmodel Delcam PowerSHAPE
- .save Assassin's Creed II backup
- .sh3d Sweet Home 3D
- .TiVo video record
- .vmg Nokia Text Message
- .wpb OpenCanvas files
New in TestDisk & Photorec 6.12 (May 12, 2011)
- Image Creation is now faster than previous version when there are bad sectors
- List and copy files from exFAT filesystem
- Improved NTFS undelete interface
New in TestDisk & Photorec 6.12 Beta (Jan 25, 2010)
- Convert the directory name when it can't be created (Fix for Windows/Cygwin version)
- Better HPA/DCO detection: handle the case where native_max is null.
- Image Creation is now faster when there are bad sectors.
New in TestDisk & Photorec 6.11 (Apr 20, 2009)
- Should use less CPU.
- This new TestDisk version can undelete files for NTFS filesystem and recover deleted exFAT and ext4.
New in TestDisk & Photorec 6.10 (Jul 18, 2008)
- Report disk manufacturer and model under Windows and Linux (Only Linux was supported in 6.9)
- Under Linux, /dev/mapper/* and /dev/md? are now listed with the harddisks.
- Now both OS and compiler versions are recorded in the log file.
New in TestDisk & Photorec 6.9 (Jun 3, 2008)
- Compatible with ntfsprogs 2.0, the latest library version for accessing NTFS partitions.
- EFI GUID Partition Table is now supported. EFI GPT is mainly used on Itanium, MacBook and Mac Pro.
- Both utilities can use sudo if the user is not root, this functionnality will be enabled for at least MacOSX, so users won't have to go into a command line.
- The MacOSX screen is also better supported.
- Improved Windows disk support, most internal USB card reader should now work.
- Disk model (ie. ATA ST3120026AS, _NEC DVD_RW ND-4550A...) are now reported under Linux.
- New file system support has been added: encrypted LUKS, Mac HFSX, Linux Raid md 1.0/1.1/1.2 (0.9 was already supported).
- UFS, UFS2 file systems are now identified better.
- TestDisk 6.9 now handles a Mac partition table partially overwritten by an Intel partition.
- It displays unicode filenames correctly, and can handle unicode filesnames while copying files from an NTFS partition when supported by the underlying libraries.
- TestDisk warns if the media is in read-only instead of read-write access.
- It's now possible to copy files from a lost FAT partition found by TestDisk (Already possible for NTFS).
- In the Advanced menu, TestDisk can create a raw/dd-like image of a partition.
New in TestDisk & Photorec 6.8 (Jan 8, 2008)
- Partition type is autodetected.
- TestDisk and PhotoRec can now be used under GNU screen, the screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation. Typically, a screen can be shared by an end-user under Linux, Mac or another Unix and a remote data recovery specialist connected via SSH. It's also possible to disconnect while keeping a long recovery (ie PhotoRec) session running.
- Disk geometry under Mac has been corrected (Version 6.7 affected)
- HFS partition detection has been improved to avoid false positive
- Log potential NTFS partition location from MFT & MFTMirr location while rebuilding NTFS boot sector