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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Looking for ways to recover deleted partitions on Windows 10/11? Well, few things can be as annoying as paritition loss. When you delete a hard disk partition, it usually becomes unallocated space, ...

I'm playing IT guy for a friend who's laptop died. Sysadmin and tech support used to be a career of mine, but no longer, so I'm a bit rusty, and more importantly, I don't have the same tools available ...

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 ...