Best free disk utility

[daveshel]

Every 'free' program I've tried ends up as a demo tease for something that costs $59 and up. I need to recover a deleted NTFS boot partition. (User started to install Ubuntu on free space but failed to select custom installation - linux partition was created but install was aborted before anything was written to the linux partition.)

 

[C1]

Ya, know what you mean. Check this site & try some of these:

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/arc...ata-recovery-software/


Some of these can actually work even if they are trial. My problem was a bit different (just needed to undelete). Ones I finally ended up selecting & trying were: Undelete_Plus, file_recovery, pRJJiUDR, ADRC_Recovery_Tools.

 

[daveshel]

Thanks, that's a nice collection of file recovery tools. What I need is a tool that will recover files from a deleted partition - none of those look like they're able to do that.

 

[C1]

As I recall, some of the utilities claimed capability to undelete a partition volume. If this could be done then presumably one would have access to the desired files.

In the past, I used a utility from Norton called some thing like Disk Recovery Manager. It allowed capability to view as well as modify data on HDDs and even floppys (in HEX, Octal or ASCII). This was good for manually repairing a partition table or capturing text (eg, capture source code or text from a letter or memo) right from the media storage device.

I would look carefully at the stuff on Raymonds to be sure. For example, PC Inspector says that it can locate partitions and recover the files even if the partition has been deleted.

 

[daveshel]

I ended up buying GetBackData and it worked. Good program.

 

[dennilfloss]

BootitNG is very good at undeleting partitions.

 

[daveshel]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
BootitNG is very good at undeleting partitions.

$49.98. Where were you yesterday? I spent $79.

 

[dennilfloss]

Sorry, I post on a dozen sites so I don't read all forums all the time.😱

I've used the free demo of BootitNG to recover a partition before.

 

[0roo0roo]

spinrite...
not free

 

[vshah]

i think i used something called filescavenger way back, i recall it was either free, or the trial didn't have limitations. getdataback is also good.