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 ...

Has anyone used TestDisk to recovery hard drive partitions? I have have a shucked drive from a Seagate SRD00F2 external drive (Amazon link), that to the best of my knowledge does not run hardware ...

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 ...

Undelete files, recover data, and fix damaged partitions with the help of these handy portable apps. Sooner or later, recovery will be a necessary task for every IT administrator. People lose data, ...

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 ...