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 want to make a new partition on the drive using testdrive, but I'm nervous about a few things - most of the info I've found online runs through running the analysis and recovering from that, not ...

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

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.

TestDisk is a free data recovery utility. Recover lost data storage partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again. Recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks.

Testdisk includes TestDisk, which can recover lost partitions and repair boot sectors, and PhotoRec, which can recover many different types of files from tons of different file systems.

Typing sudo testdisk on the command line will launch the menu-driven utility, and you'll need to select the log option you need followed by Proceed on the partition you're interested in.