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, ...

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 ...

So I've got an old 80 Gb Maxtor IDE drive (NTFS, WinXP inside, supposedly only one partition) which the disk management tool from Win10 is able to find. It tells me no partitions found, only ...

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'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...