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 ...

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 ...

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 ...