TestDisk Team
From CGSecurity
TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again. PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures from digital camera memory.
Many people have been helpful in making TestDisk & PhotoRec very useful (and free) programs! This page lists some of those who've helped us by the contributions they have made, or continue to make:
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Main Contributors
Christophe Grenier
Location: Paris, France
URL: http://www.cgsecurity.org
He started the project in 1998 and is still the main developer. He is also responsible for the packaging of TestDisk & PhotoRec for DOS, Windows(tm), Linux (generic version) and 'Fedora Extras' distro.
Juan Carniglia
Location: Buenos Aires - Argentina
He is responsible for the maintaining of the Spanish version of the documentation.
Fiona Meg Riessler
Location: Germany
She moderates ComputerBase.de Forums where she helps German users. She is reponsible for the TestDisk & PhotoRec documentation in German.
Daniel B. Sedory
Location: USA
He has worked on the English documentation since 2001 and suggested numerous improvements. Some of his work can be found at: The Starman's Realm.
Past contributors
Gregory Blanc
Location: France
During summer 2006, he worked on the French version of TestDisk's documentation and the 'Office' file format for PhotoRec.
Fabien Bouffard
Location: France
During summer 2006, he worked on the French version of TestDisk's documentation and the 'Office' file format for PhotoRec.
Simone Brandt
Location: Berlin, Germany
She created the first TestDisk logo in 2001 and also worked on the early documentation for TestDisk.
Marcel Bruins
Location: The Netherlands
In 2006, Marcel won our PhotoRec Logo Contest with this design.
Karim El Filali
Location: France
During summer 2006, he worked on the French version of TestDisk's documentation.
Igor Vallee
Location: France
During summer 2006, he worked on the French version of TestDisk's documentation and the 'Office' file format for PhotoRec.
Dmitri Zdorov
Location: USA
He created this TestDisk logo in 2001.
Packagers
Franz Bakan
Location: Hamburg, Germany
URL: http://www.fbakan.de/photorec-os2.htm
He packages PhotoRec for OS/2.
Daniel Black
Location: Australia
He is responsible for forensics packages under Gentoo Linux and also works on the TestDisk ebuild script. If you have any trouble with the TestDisk package under Gentoo please search for existing bugs first. If none are found, you may fill out a new bug report.
Ladislav Hagara
Location: Czech Republic
He is working on a script that will add TestDisk to 'Source Mage' GNU/Linux.
Robin H. Johnson
Primary Gentoo maintainer for the TestDisk ebuild script in Gentoo. Member of the Gentoo Council 2006-2007. (For more information regarding Gentoo Linux, see Daniel Black's entry above.)
Jean-Michel Kelbert
He is now responsible for TestDisk packaging under Debian.
Vitaly Lipatov
He packages TestDisk & PhotoRec for the 'ALT Linux' distribution.
Arkadiusz Patyk
He packages TestDisk for 'PLD Linux' (since 2002).
Location: Lodz, Poland
URL: http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/
Pascal Terjan
Location: Paris, France
He packages TestDisk for 'Mandriva Linux' (since 2003).
Florent Thoumie
Location: Dublin, Ireland
URL: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/testdisk
Since 2004, he has added the latest version of TestDisk/PhotoRec to FreeBSD ports.
Past Packagers
Fabian Franz
He was responsible for the Debian packaging of TestDisk during 2002 and 2003.
