Revision as of 15:41, 29 December 2006

Partition Recovery

Partition Table Doctor

http://www.ptdd.com/index.htm

parted

The Linux partition management tool.

Active Partition Recovery

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gpart

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

Testdisk

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

See Also

• Using Norton Disk Edit to Backup Your Master Boot Record

Notes

• "fdisk /mbr" restores the boot code in the MBR, but not the partition itself.

Data Recovery

BringBack

http://www.toolsthatwork.com/

BringBack offers easy to use, inexpensive, and highly successful data recovery for Windows and Linux (ext2) operating systems and digital images stored on memory cards, etc.

ByteBack Data Recovery Investigative Suite v4.0

http://www.toolsthatwork.com

Now with UDMA, ATA & SATA support, memory management and greater ease and control of partition and MBR manipulations, ByteBack continues to uphold it's viability as the computer forensics and recovery application of professionals.

RAID Reconstructor

http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm

Runtime Software's RAID Reconstructor will reconstruct RAID Level 0 (Striping) and RAID Level 5 drives.

Salvation Data

http://www.salvationdata.com

Claims to have a program that can read the "bad blocks" of Maxtor drives with proprietary commands.

Carving

DataLifter DataLifter® - File Extractor Pro

http://www.datalifter.com/products.htm

Foremost

Currently the most popular open-source carving tool.