Has anyone used TestDisk to recovery hard drive partitions? I have have a shucked drive from a Seagate SRD00F2 external drive (Amazon link), that to the best of my knowledge does not run hardware ...

I tried figuring out how to put a new partition on it with testdisk, but couldn't find any way to write it after I set the options.<BR><BR>So ...

This free open-source tool can save a partition that's been overwritten and recover lost files.

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Key recovery features With TestDisk and PhotoRec, recovery is split into two broad groups: partitions and filesystems, and photos and other images. Many recovery issues concern missing partitions.

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