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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...