Sometimes, a virus or manual error corrupts the different partitions on the hard disk. It is also possible to damage the boot sector or MBR in an attempt to recover ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To create a log or not to create a log, that is the question. How to recover deleted files in Linux with testdisk Your email has been sent If you've had files deleted by a hacker or you've ...

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, ...

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 ...

A bad sector is a sector on a computer's disk drive that is either inaccessible or unwritable due to permanent damage, such as physical damage to the disk surface. Flash memory may also have "bad ...

File restoration utilities are one of the most important programs in a Linux administrator’s toolkit. They provide the ability to recover deleted files, even in cases where the disk is either ...