The draw of free and open-source software is always strong and while TestDisk and PhotoRec deliver, neither tool seems good enough to fully recover data from the source disk. Useful for low-level ...

Perform low-level disk repair and file recovery–from a command prompt or DOS box–with this handy pair of utilities. If you’re a fan of character-based interfaces–such as DOS–and free data recovery, ...

TestDisk is a free data recovery utility. It was primarily designed to help recover lost data storage partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when ...

There’s one big event that can trigger an overwhelming sense of dread when you’re installing an OS on a friend or family member’s PC: data loss. It’s bad enough when it happens to your own data, but ...

The best way to recover from unexpected data loss is to be properly prepared. With one of the following tools on hand, you'll always be ready to save your data from the Reaper. Photo by Matalyn. While ...

Plenty of utilities can recover deleted files, but what if you can't boot your computer, or the whole drive has been formatted? Here's how to dig deep and recover the most elusive deleted files, or ...

This post describes testdisk, one of the tools that comes in handy for recovering recently deleted files (along with fixing partitions in other ways). When you delete a file on a Linux system, it ...

I have (or, maybe, the better word to use would be "had") a Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo external hard drive. This is two 750GB drives that you can set to either RAID0 or RAID1 - I had it set to RAID0 in ...

It is free software developed under open source based on GNU license, and it corresponds to Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, DOS etc. File system supports FAT, NTFS, EXT 2 ...

How many times have you accidentally deleted a photo you really needed from a digital camera or attached storage medium? We’ve all been there and done that! Sure, if you delete most files — even some ...