HOW TO INSTALL TESTDISK DATA RECOVERY IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST EASYRECOVERY TOOL FOR LINUX

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Testdisk data recovery in Ubuntu 16.04. testdisk is a open source easyrecovery application used to recover corrupted data due to virus, accidentally deleted data from harddisk. This application was initially developed by Christophe Grenier using C programming language and released under GNU GPLv2 License. Testdisk data recovery is nice light weight application comes with various applications mentioned below :

• Testdisk data recovery is a cross platform application available for major operating system i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.
• You can use this application to recover data over so many file systems like ext2, ext3, ext4, fat32, NTFS and so on.
• Testdisk capable to recover deleted partition.
• In case of ext2, ext3 & ext4 file system this application recovers data by finding the superbolcks.
• You can rebuild the windows corrupted file systems i.e. FAT32, NTFS.

Caution : This tutorial is just for learning purpose. We are not forcing any one to use/implement this application on any live server/systems and we are not Responsible for any data loss or corruption of any data/file system/partition/anything else during installation/implementation/configuration of this application by following this article.

Follow the below steps to install Testdisk data recovery in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Easyrecovery tool for Linux

Before start the installation of Testdisk data recovery application let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                       
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

After update the packages & repositories now we are ready to install the Testdisk Easyrecovery application. To install so we don’t have to install any 3rd party PPA repository as it’s a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install the same use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install testdisk   # Install the Testdisk data recovery Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  testdisk
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 440 not upgraded.
Need to get 324 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,241 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 testdisk amd64 7.0-1 [324 kB]
Fetched 324 kB in 1s (179 kB/s)   
Selecting previously unselected package testdisk.
(Reading database ... 174262 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../testdisk_7.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking testdisk (7.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up testdisk (7.0-1) ...

As you can see above we have successfully installed the Testdisk data recovery package. To confirm the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l testdisk   # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  testdisk                             7.0-1                   amd64                   Partition scanner and disk recovery tool, and PhotoRec file recovery tool

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Now to open the application just type the command testdisk on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ testdisk   # Open the Testdisk Easyrecovery application

Snap : 1

Snap : 2

Snap : 3

Snap : 4

Snap : 5

To uninstall the Testdisk data recovery application use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r testdisk   # Uninstall the Testdisk Easyrecovery application
(Reading database ... 174482 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing testdisk (7.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...

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