Open the terminal window, by double clicking on the terminal icon on the desktop, and run TestDisk as root: I have selected /dev/sdc, which as you can see doesn't have any valid partitions on it, since I accidentally deleted them for this tutorial. Select your disk drive using the drop-down menu on the top-right. When the window manager loads, the first open window is the GParted Partition Editor. keyboard layout, don't try to be a hero, just accept the defaults by pressing Enter. While GParted is booting it will ask you some questions, e.g. Restart your computer and boot from the USB drive you have created. Select the GParted ISO you have just downloaded and the drive you wish to use for GParted Live, and then click OK. Create bootable USBĪfter installing, plug-in an empty USB drive and run UNetbootin. $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppaįor other distributions, you can find binaries and sources at the official UNetbootin page. If you are on Ubuntu, ensure you have the latest version by adding the Ubuntu PPA repository for UNetbootin and install it. If you are on Windows, just download UNetbootin.

There are multiple methods you can use to create a bootable USB drive from the ISO file-I prefer UNetbootin. Choose the latest stable release for your computer architecture (if you are not sure choose i686). Start by downloading the GParted Live ISO.

Note that if you are still able to boot normally to your system, and just want to recover your files without creating a bootable disk, you might also want to have a look at Recover Deleted Files Using the Free Open Source Tool PhotoRec. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a bootable GParted Live USB drive, and use TestDisk to recover your partitions. That's a lot of lost data! Thankfully, I was able to use a cool program called TestDisk to fully recover everything. The good news was that before I started the system recovery procedure, I asked her to backup the most important data, but that was just 5GB out of 200GB-the rest was gone. I'm a Linux user, so I was like, come on, at least give me a challenge! Have you heard people saying, be careful what you wish for? Well, 30 seconds into the recovery procedure, I got an Error 333 and a restart button. The hard disk was split between a C drive for the OS, and a D drive with 200GB of data.

A friend recently asked me to perform a system recovery on her VAIO laptop.

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