If your Mac is from 2013 or later, use Apple Diagnostics, which is built into your Mac. If your Mac is from 2012 or earlier and has OS X 10.8.4 or later, use Apple Hardware Test, which is built into your Mac. If your Mac is from 2012 or earlier and has OS X 10.8.3 or earlier, use the system software disc or USB flash drive that came with your Mac.
El Capitan’s Disk Utility is a handy tool for troubleshooting and repairing your hard drive (whether you’re noticing that your Mac has slowed considerably or you have problems opening files and applications). You can find it in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. From Launchpad, click the Utilities folder and then click the Disk. Using Drive Scope to Test Mac Drives If your Mac is running slowly, crashing, or just generally misbehaving, and you're not entirely sure what the problem is, one place to look is your hard drive. Because they are in use constantly, both solid state drives and traditional rotational drives are the most failure prone component in your Mac. Nov 08, 2019 On November 8, 1984, Apple kick-started its 'Test Drive a Macintosh' campaign, offering customers the chance to borrow a Mac for 24 hours.
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- TestDisk & PhotoRec are portable applications, extract the files and the applications are ready to be used. No need to run an installer.
- TestDisk & PhotoRec can also be found on LiveCD.
- Online documentation: TestDisk, PhotoRec
Beta: TestDisk & PhotoRec 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery
For more information, read the 7.2 release notes and the git history.
Select your operating system to download the latest version of TestDisk & PhotoRec data recovery tools.
- Windows, minimum requirement: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and above.
- Linux, kernel 2.6.18 or later i386
- Linux, kernel 2.6.18 or later x86_64
- Mac OS X Intel / OS X / macOS <= 10.14 (Warning: 32 bits version)
- macOS 64 bits:
brew install testdisk(see https://docs.brew.sh/Installation) - Marvell 88F628x Linux 2.6.32 Synology DS111, DS211, DS212+ NAS, Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220, QNAP ARM based including TS-410
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TestDisk & PhotoRec 7.1 (July 7, 2019), Data Recovery
For more information, read the 7.1 release notes and git history.
Select your operating system to download the latest version of TestDisk & PhotoRec data recovery tools.
- Windows, minimum requirement: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and above.
- Linux, kernel 2.6.18 or later i386
- Linux, kernel 2.6.18 or later x86_64
- Mac OS X Intel / OS X / macOS
- macOS 64 bits:
brew install testdisk(see https://docs.brew.sh/Installation) - Marvell 88F628x Linux 2.6.32 Synology DS111, DS211, DS212+ NAS, Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220, QNAP ARM based including TS-410
Do you need a graphical user-interface to recover your lost files on Mac or Windows ? Try our partner Disk Drill here.
TestDisk & PhotoRec 7.0 (18 April 2015), Data Recovery
For more information, read the 7.0 release notes and git history.
Select your operating system to download the latest version of TestDisk & PhotoRec data recovery tools.
- Windows (Last version to support Windows XP)
- Windows 64-bit Use only on systems lacking WoW64 as some features are missing
- Linux, kernel 2.6.18 or later i386
- Linux, kernel 2.6.18 or later x86_64
- Marvell 88F628x Linux 2.6.32 Synology DS111, DS211, DS212+ NAS, Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220, QNAP ARM based including TS-410
Test Drive For Mac High Sierra