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Failing Disk Imagers

  • http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/HD_Workbench.htm - Allows you to monitor your disk health, scan it for bad sectors, replace bad sectors and image a failing disk.

  • http://www.pcinspector.de/clone-maxx/uk/welcome.htm - "PC INSPECTOR clone maxx is the new professional hard drive copying program from CONVAR. Using the new direct DMA support, data can be copied from hard drives in high speed mode with speeds up to 3.3 GB per minute."

  • http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm - "DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives."

  • http://www.partition-saving.com/ - "Partition Saving is a DOS program that is used to save, restore and copy hard-drive, partitions, floppy disk and DOS devices."

  • http://www.roadkil.net/RawCopy.html - "This program copies a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. This utility is designed for people who have faulty drive and want to transfer the data directly to another drive without doing a file by file copy. This saves the need for operating system re-installs and allows drives with an unknown file system to be copied (including from console game machines, data recorders, Mac etc). The program has a built in data recovery function which will attempt to recover data from bad sectors to ensure all the available data is restored from the drive."

  • http://www.roadkil.net/DiskImg.html - "Creates and writes disk images files to hard and floppy disks. Great for writing boot disk images download from the internet or creating a perfect copy of a disk to email to someone else."

  • http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/hdcopy_e.htm - "With HDCopy you can make an identical copy of a hard drive onto another hard drive. If you buy a new hard drive and don't wish to change your Windows configuration in any way, you can use HDCopy to copy your old hard drive completely to the new one (hidden files as well."

  • http://www.restorer2000.com/ - "Restorer2000 Free DEMO 2.0 allows you to evaluate Restorer2000 products and displays your hard drive structure with deleted files and folders. Also, with Restorer2000 Free DEMO 2.0 you can create an Image file for an entire disk, partition or its part. Then the Image file can be used like regular disk." Comment - Interestingly the Demo's disk imaging feature works in unlimited for free but the undelete only shows you what can be undeleted. Thus free disk imaging. :-)

  • http://www.diskman.co.uk/default.aspx - "Diskman is free for noncommercial use. Diskman products may be licensed for commercial use and may be fully customized to suit particular application requirements. The core Diskman library supports a variety of file system and disk manipulation commands which can be used to extract and modify information not normally available from the OS. Diskman is currently supported by MS-DOS (and its clones) and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP . A Linux version of Diskman may be developed in the future. Diskman 4 is the latest MS-DOS compatible release:"

  • http://www.vanheusden.com/recoverdm/ - "This program will help you recover disks with bad sectors. You can recover files as well complete devices. In case if finds sectors which simply cannot be recovered, it writes an empty sector to the outputfile and continues. If you're recovering a CD or a DVD and the program cannot read the sector in "normal mode", then the program will try to read the sector in "RAW mode" (without error-checking etc.). This toolkit also has a utility called 'mergebad': mergebad merges multiple images into one. This can be useful when you have, for example, multiple CD's with the same data which are all damaged. In such case, you can then first use recoverdm to retrieve the data from the damaged CD's into image-files and then combine them into one image with mergebad."

  • http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/scrounge/ - "{Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition. I wrote this program when one of my friends lost valuable data on an NTFS drive. It been used since then in several cases, but not thoroughly tested, especially not WRT the fact that it's a data recovery program. You should have your partition information stored away in advance. This allows reliable retrieval of file info."

Failed Disk Readers

  • http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/scrounge/ - Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition.

  • http://www.diskinternals.com/products/ntfs-reader/ - DiskInternals NTFS Reader is a freeware tool that provides a read access to NTFS disks from Windows 95, 98 and Me.

  • http://www.ekremdeniz.com/pub/tdisk.zip -  "Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end."

  • http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ - This easy-to-use tool runs under Windows and allows you to browse Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems and extract files from there.

  • http://www.vcsoftwares.com/cc.html - Copy Cat 2.0 actually skip the bytes which are not readable from file and copy all other bytes therefore it extracts max data which is normally not done by windows copy operation.

  • http://www.deaddiskdoctor.com/ - Dead Disk Doctor - allows copying files from scratched or damaged CD, DVD disks, unreadable Floppy and Hard Drives or other media.

  • http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/irecover.htm - "iRecover is a Windows based, read-only data recovery utility. iRecover offers FAT, FAT32 and NTFS file system support, and supports all current Microsoft Windows versions (including 2000 and XP, server and workstation). iRecover allows you to recover data from deleted, corrupt, reformatted and intact (for recovering deleted files) volumes by copying this data to any destination Windows assigns a drive letter such as additional hard disks, partitions, ZIP disks and mapped network shares." Demo allows recovery of a directory, otherwise, not free.

  • http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - "The goals of the Linux-NTFS project are to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux kernel driver, and by a user space filesystem (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities (ntfsprogs) and a developer's library (libntfs) for other GPLed programs. We have achieved already a lot, with high quality results."

  • http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm - "NTFS Reader DOS Boot Disk provides read access to NTFS drives from the MS DOS environment. It supports long filenames as well as compressed and fragmented files. NTFS Reader for DOS allows you to preview the files on NTFS and copy them from NTFS to FAT volumes or network drives. In order to use the software you need to copy the readntfs.exe file to a bootable floppy disk and boot from it. NTFS Reader for DOS is a FREEWARE"

  • http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ - "Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!

  • drs120.zip - "Data Recovery Software: Reads BAD disks"

  • http://www.roadkil.net/Sectedit.html - "Allows displaying, editing, printing and searching of disks by individual sectors. The information can be displayed and edited in both ASCII or hexadecimal. Sectors can be copied and exported to files."

  • http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html - "Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end."

  • http://www.digitalsystem.co.yu/download.html - "Info: A program for copying corrupted files which can't be copied the standard way because of some error on media the file is stored on."

  • http://pjwalczak.com/scaven/index.php - "SCAVEN is a micro-tool for data recovery. It was designed to perform unattended multi-string searches through large hard drives. It records position of matches found to the output text file in a sector:offset:match format (fixed size column). SCAVEN is an effective tool and time saver in the recovering data from: files permanently deleted, files lost through overwrite, accidentally formatted drives, drives with damaged MBR / lost partitions, drives with corrupted FATs, drives which developed bad sectors, SCAVEN will not help if:drive developed mechanical problems (strange metallic sounds), motor is dead (not spinning at all), controller failed (drive not detected by BIOS)"

  • http://www.salvagentfs.com/6.0.html - "SalvageNTFS is capable of scanning a partition, or even a whole disk drive, for anything that looks like valid NTFS data. Normally, the location of this information is stored on the volume itself; however, if this becomes damaged, the volume can become unusable. SalvageNTFS continues to function and can (after an exhaustive search) furnish a complete list of data that can be recovered. Additionally, most file system drivers fail less-than-gracefully when unexpected data is encountered. SalvageNTFS is able to identify damaged records, extract whatever information it can, and continue using the other portions of the volume with ease."

  • http://www.mitec.cz/hex.html - Powerful multiple files hexadecimal editor with following features: Data Inspector, Calculator, File Compare, Memory Dumper, Disk Dumper (NT only).

  • http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html - "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. Ddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps. The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, run it in reverse mode, etc."

  • http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/scrounge/ - "Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition. I wrote this program when one of my friends lost valuable data on an NTFS drive. It been used since then in several cases, but not thoroughly tested, especially not WRT the fact that it's a data recovery program. You should have your partition information stored away in advance. This allows reliable retrieval of file info."

  • http://www.inner-smile.com/dl_piece.htm - "PieceCopy is a tiny tool which will extract a portion of a specific file. You can use it to extract data of files, to cut file headers, to retrieve binary data of a specific position, to rescue parts of damaged files/disks or whatever."

  • http://www.copyhandler.com/en/manual/introduction-to-copy-handler.html - "# copying data at rates up to 6-7 times faster than standard MS Windows copying (when copying data from one partiton to another on the same physical hard disk); # allow full-control over the copying/moving process by pause, resume, restart and cancel features; fully customizable - over 60 detailed options - from setting language (multiple languages) through auto-resume on error, shutting down system after copying finished to very detailed and technical (customizing copy/move thread - buffer sizes, thread priority, ...) ending on sounds
    on specific events;"

Lost Partition Rescue Freeware

  • http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html - "Tool to check and undelete partition. Works with the following partitions: - BeFS ( BeOS ). - BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/ OpenBSD/NetBSD ). - CramFS (Compressed File System). - DOS/ Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32. - HFS, Hierarchical File System. - JFS, IBM's Journaled File System. - Linux Ext2 and Ext3. - Linux Raid. - Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2). - LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager. - Netware NSS. - NTFS ( Windows NT/2K/XP/2003 ). - ReiserFS 3.5 and 3.6. - UFS (Sun/BSD/...). - XFS, SGI's Journaled File System."

  • http://www.roadkil.net/bootbuild.html - "Boot builder allows you to create your own custom boot sector from scratch. This utility allows you to recreate or restore boot sectors lost due to virus or other damage to a drive. Boot sectors can be imported/exported to a disk or created from a template. This program supports FAT and NTFS boot sector types."

  • http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/prescue.html - "Partition Rescue backs up your disk's partition system to //partition rescue floppy disk//. If your disk's partition system gets damaged you can restore it by booting your system using this rescue disk. It can recover your disk from damaged partition table, missing partitions, virus attack etc."

  • http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA003009/
    mbrscane.html - "MBRSCAN is a PC-DOS program which dumps MBR (Master Boot Record) and boot record of each partition and analyzes partition table entries. I wrote this program to dump the MBR when I encountered MBR corruption at OS installation. At first, I used a debug command to look at the MBR. Then I wrote the MBRSCAN for asking other person to display the MBR much easier. After that, I added partition table analyzer to the MBRSCAN. If you have some knowledge about hard disk, you can figure out partition and boot problems using this tool. The MBRSCAN is also good for understand partition table structure."

  • http://www.diskman.co.uk/default.aspx - The core Diskman library supports a variety of file system and disk manipulation commands which can be used to extract and modify information not normally available from the OS. Diskman is currently supported by MS-DOS (and its clones) and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP . A Linux version of Diskman may be developed in the future. Diskman 4 is the latest MS-DOS compatible release: Backup and restore VFAT (Windows 9X/nt/2000). Long File Names (LFN). Archive compatible with DOSLFNBK, the leading LFN backup utility. Support for disk image files up to 2GB (4GB coming soon). Support for spanned image files up to 2TB. Mount and manipulate disk images (such as those created for Rawrite). Export volumes or entire physical drives for later restore. Quickly copy every file into image files for easy backup and later restore. Directly edit disks at the sector level. Support for all BIOS supported disks, DOS supported drives and Image files. Help repair disks after a virus attack or rescue critical data."

  • http://pjwalczak.com/scaven/index.php - "SCAVEN is a micro-tool for data recovery. It was designed to perform unattended multi-string searches through large hard drives. It records position of matches found to the output text file in a sector:offset:match format (fixed size column). SCAVEN is an effective tool and time saver in the recovering data from: files permanently deleted, files lost through overwrite, accidentally formatted drives, drives with damaged MBR / lost partitions, drives with corrupted FATs, drives which developed bad sectors, SCAVEN will not help if:drive developed mechanical problems (strange metallic sounds), motor is dead (not spinning at all), controller failed (drive not detected by BIOS)"

  • http://www.salvagentfs.com/6.0.html - "SalvageNTFS is capable of scanning a partition, or even a whole disk drive, for anything that looks like valid NTFS data. Normally, the location of this information is stored on the volume itself; however, if this becomes damaged, the volume can become unusable. SalvageNTFS continues to function and can (after an exhaustive search) furnish a complete list of data that can be recovered. Additionally, most file system drivers fail less-than-gracefully when unexpected data is encountered. SalvageNTFS is able to identify damaged records, extract whatever information it can, and continue using the other portions of the volume with ease."

  • http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm - "Perform several Master Boot Record (MBR) tasks, like backing up, restoring, fixing the boot code in the MBR, etc. The utility should not be used for GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks. The utility now, by popular demand, also come in a x64-version running unde x64-editions of Windows and PE."

  • http://mbrwizard.tripod.com/ - "MBRWiz is a command line tool designed to directly modify the MBR, with the capability to set partitions active for booting, delete or hide partitions, back up and restore copies of the MBR, as well as sort the partition entries."

Virus Damage Recovery Freeware

  • http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ - "Ease your mind and scan your PC for viruses." Comment - If a virus has knocked out your antivirus, just go online. Trend Micro is often the highest rated antivirus software.

  • http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/
    activescan/com/activescan_princ... - "Scans, disinfects and eliminates over 90,000 viruses, worms and Trojans from all system devices, hard disks, compressed file and all your email. Detects spyware. 84 percent of malware installed on computers worldwide is spyware. Do you know if your PC is spyware free? NEW! Detects the following types of malware: Dialers. Hacking tools. Jokes. Security risks. Hoaxes." Comment - Panda is a highly rated antivirus software. This is also a free online scanner.

  • http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp - "McAfee FreeScan helps you detect thousands of viruses on your computer. Based on the award-winning McAfee VirusScan engine, FreeScan searches for viruses, including the latest known "in the wild" viruses, and displays a detailed list of any infected files. Should viruses be found, FreeScan even provides links to more information about the viruses and what you can do to clean your system."

  • http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html - "BitDefender Online Scanner is a fully functional antivirus product. It features all required elements for thorough antivirus scanning and effective cleaning: it scans your system's memory, all files, folders and drives' boot sectors, providing you with the option to automatically clean the infected files."

  • http://support.f-secure.com/ols/start.html - "F-Secure Online Virus Scanner is a free service. Use it to find out if your computer is infected with a virus and disinfect your computer if needed."

  • http://www.symantec.com/cgi-bin/securitycheck.cgi - "Symantec Security Check tests your exposure to a wide range of online threats. It's free and efficient, and it helps you determine your Internet security needs."

  • http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Download/
    browseFreeRemovalTool/ - List of 101 free specific virus removal tools. If you know what the virus is, you can remove it with these. Other antivirus companies have similar tools.

  • http://www.avdisk.org/pages/en/about.html - "AVDisk is a program which automates the task of getting your anti-virus software on to floppy disks which you can use to start, scan and disinfect your computer."

  • http://grc.com/cih.htm - "The CIH virus attempts to ERASE the writable FLASH BIOS of infected PC's, and also overwrites the first 2,048 sectors (1,048,576 bytes) of all of the system's available non-removable writable disk drives! While this behavior places the CIH virus among the nastiest of all viruses, the damage is more recoverable than at first appears..."

  • http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ - Allows you to use anti-virus programs in the Windows "pre-installed" environment, which is kind of midway between DOS and Windows. Weird but, after a Windows 2000 and XP disks are mounted, they start up a non-gui version of Windows that this environment takes advantage. You can load all sorts of data recovery apps in this environment. You should have a license for the Windows pre-install environment you are using.

  • http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/csfd.zip - "Clean Start was designed with two applications in mind. First, it has proven very effective in controlling inadvertent infection of customers' systems by technicians, software trainers, consultants, and others who carry disks to customer sites. Such infections normally occur when systems are booted with floppy disks left in the floppy disk drives. An infected Clean Start diskette will provide a clear indication (a yellow on red splash) that both the diskette and the customer's hard drive are infected. Remedial action can be taken right then and there, so that the agent does not walk away, leaving the infection in place."

  • http://invircible.com/iv_tools.php#FreeDOS - "Certain viruses like INT_CE and W95.Spaces, take advantage of a vulnerability in MS-DOS based operating systems, starting from MS-DOS 5. The exploit is known as the circular partition trick. This is an extremely frustrating condition, as the computer with a tricked drive will not boot anymore, not even from floppy. Even experts are misled when faced with a circular partition and will replace the hard drive, believing that the hardware is at fault. The only way to revert a circular partition is to boot with other than MS-DOS, like PC-DOS, or FreeDOS, and fix it with a disk recovery tool such as the NetZ ResQ utilities."

  • http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/zefrjpg.zip - "Demand continues for this widely used tool, which recovers JPG images after they have been lost to a LoveLetter worm attack (or any other reason). Archive now includes an NTFS version along with the FAT version. Millions (by now perhaps billions) of files have been successfully recovered by ZefrJPG over the years."

Hard Disk Repair Freeware

  • http://www.hdtune.com/ - This can check the health of your drive. Important step if the drive is suspected of imminently failing.

  • http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/HD_Workbench.htm - Allows you to monitor your disk health, scan it for bad sectors, replace bad sectors and image a failing disk.

  • http://www.vanheusden.com/recoverdm/ - "This program will help you recover disks with bad sectors. You can recover files as well complete devices. In case if finds sectors which simply cannot be recovered, it writes an empty sector to the outputfile and continues. If you're recovering a CD or a DVD and the program cannot read the sector in "normal mode", then the program will try to read the sector in "RAW mode" (without error-checking etc.). This toolkit also has a utility called 'mergebad': mergebad merges multiple images into one. This can be useful when you have, for example, multiple CD's with the same data which are all damaged. In such case, you can then first use recoverdm to retrieve the data from the damaged CD's into image-files and then combine them into one image with mergebad."

  • http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/mbrtool.htm - MBRtool™ is a DOS program designed to manipulate your hard disk Master Boot Record (MBR). MBR editor, MBR backup & restore, partition table editor and more.

  • http://www.roadkil.net/bootbuild.html - "Boot builder allows you to create your own custom boot sector from scratch. This utility allows you to recreate or restore boot sectors lost due to virus or other damage to a drive. Boot sectors can be imported/exported to a disk or created from a template. This program supports FAT and NTFS boot sector types."

  • http://www.ontrack.com/dataadvisor/ - "Data Advisor® is a simple, yet powerful computer diagnostic tool for assessing the condition of your computer system. Data Advisor quickly assesses the health of your hard disk drive, file structures, and computer memory by identifying problems that could cause data loss. Don't worry if you can't boot your system to Windows; DataAdvisor is self-booting, so it runs even when your system won't. This comprehensive computer diagnostic tool can be used to both diagnose current problems and/or as part of a regular maintenance program to identify potential problems that could lead to data loss. If potential problems are identified, you will have time to backup your valuable information and make corrections to avoid future loss."

  • http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm - "PassMark DiskCheckup™ allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART ( Self Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology ) is an interface between a computer's BIOS (basic input/output system) and the computer hard disk. It is a feature of the Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE) technology that controls
    access to the hard drive. If S.M.A.R.T is enabled when a computer is set up, the BIOS can receive analytical information from the hard drive and determine whether to send the user a warning message about possible future failure of the hard drive."

  • http://www.e-systems.ro/diskcheck.htm - "Emsa Disk Check is a dual-purpose utility, for disk checking (prescan and full disk reading) and also benchmarking. What it does, is scanning/reading the entire
    contents of a disk (CD, DVD or hard drive; or even floppy) and show any read errors that may appear, but also show drive speed information, progress statistics etc. It was designed with simplicity in mind, but
    usefulness for the user."

CD Zip & Floppy Repair Freeware

  • http://www.deaddiskdoctor.com/ - Dead Disk Doctor - allows copying files from scratched or damaged CD, DVD disks, unreadable Floppy and Hard Drives or other media.

  • http://www.denispetrov.com/?page_id=3 - force formats most floppies even if initially unreadable, unlike Windows.

  • http://www.vcsoftwares.com/cc.html - Copy Cat 2.0 actually skip the bytes which are not readable from file and copy all other bytes therefore it extracts max data which is normally not done by windows copy operation.

  • http://www.geocities.com/cdmage/frames.html - repair corrupted CD image files?

  • http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html - "Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end."

  • http://www.isobuster.com/ - "Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD ! Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup, ...IsoBuster can do it all!"

  • http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/ - "CDCheck is a utility for the prevention, detection and recovery of damaged files on CD-ROMs with an emphasis on error detection. With CDCheck you can check your CDs and discover which files are corrupted. By using the program proactively, you can insure that your data on CD-ROMs are safe - - before it's too late! CDCheck provides the following features: readability verification, binary compare, CRC file creation (and verification) and file recovery. For more information see Info."

  • http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html - Developer Provided Description - "ICE ECC is a file verification and repair tool. ICE ECC allows you to protect your important files and sensitive data against digital corruption using Reed-Solomon codes. Did you know that a typical CD-R/DVD-R disk can hold its data intact for only a few years? ICE ECC is the perfect solution to this problem - before you store your data, protect it against corruption with ICE ECC." Comment - Apparently you can recover from corruption if the software is previously installed and run but not after the fact installation.

  • http://www.ekremdeniz.com/pub/tdisk.zip - - "Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end."

  • http://www.e-systems.ro/diskcheck.htm - "Emsa Disk Check is a dual-purpose utility, for disk checking (prescan and full disk reading) and also benchmarking. What it does, is scanning/reading the entire
    contents of a disk (CD, DVD or hard drive; or even floppy) and show any read errors that may appear, but also show drive speed information, progress statistics etc. It was designed with simplicity in mind, but usefulness for the user."

Misc. Disk Repair Freeware

  • http://fire.dmzs.com/?section=tools - a Linux Boot Disk with data forensic apps.

  • http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_software/
    index.html - multiple undelete and failing disk recovery suite.

  • http://www.delback.co.uk/wavrep/ - Wave Repair Program (possible use - cleans up noise from vinyl records).

  • http://www.grc.com/tip/clickdeath.htm - "Iomega ZIP and JAZ drives suffer from a head positioning problem (servo stiction) that can actively and permanently damage perfectly good ZIP and JAZ drive media. TIP (Trouble In Paradise) provides an early warning system when a user's drives are beginning to damage its media."

  • http://www.othersystem.net/korben/rockxp-4.html - "RockXP allows you to retrieve and change your XP product key that you used when you installed Windows XP. This can come very handy if you need to reinstall but have misplaced or lost the CD cover with the serial sticker. In addition, the program also lets you save the product activation to a file, enables you to recover usernames and passwords contained in the Windows Secure Storage, recover your Microsoft Windows Products keys and have password generator."

  • http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.html - "The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP /Server 2003, Office 97, and Office XP. This version is a quick update to make it work with Windows Server 2003."

  • http://members.fortunecity.com/bigg5/frw/diagn.htm - "Special requirements: DriveSpace 3 - Manually recover corrupted DriveSpace 3 drives. The "DriveSpace 3 Disaster Recovery Kit" is a toolkit for salvaging files and data from DriveSpace 3 CVFs (those .000 or .001 files) that have been corrupted beyond the ability of ScanDisk to repair. It is meant to assist someone who already has a good understanding of how data is stored on (ordinary, uncompressed) hard drives in manually recovering otherwise inaccessible compressed cluster data from within damaged CVFs, and then in piecing the recovered clusters back together into files..."

  • http://www.simtel.net/
    product.php5Burl_fb_product_page%5D44347 - Tiramisu is a famous early disk recovery program for DOS, Win FAT16, and Win nt. Those versions are now shareware. This early Novell
    version is free.

  • http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html - "Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made usable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end."

  • http://www.ubcd4win.com/contents.htm - "UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair, restore, or diagnose almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the ultimate free hardware and software diagnostic tool. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. UBCD4Win is based on Bart's PE©. Bart's PE© builds a Windows® "pre-install" environment CD, basically Windows® booted from CD. We include many free hardware and software diagnostic tools that allow you to fix almost any problem you will face with your computer. With network support, the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc. this project includes almost everything you need to repair your system problems. This project has been put together to be the ultimate recovery cd and not a replacement OS (Operating System). Please visit the "List of Tools" page for a complete list of what is included in the latest version of the
    project."

Guides for Dealing With Failing Disks

  • http://camtech2000.net/Pages/WinErrs.html - "Did you ever get an 'Illegal Operation' or 'Page Fault' error message and wonder what it meant? WinErrs is a database of 1.554 Windows error codes and their definitions. These codes are extracted directly from Microsoft Windows and are their descriptions. With over 1,500 error codes they certainly seemed prepared for the worst."

  • http://www.tech-pro.net/links_dr.html - "This page contains details of sites that have information related to data recovery. It is not exhaustive: some categories only contain sites or products that we happened to come across and liked."

  • http://www.computerhope.com/index.htm - "Computer Hope is a collection of free services that allows any user to access its database of extensive free computer related information. With these resources available, Computer Hope has become a popular destination for end-users as well as computer support facilities for answering computer related questions. Some of the services that Computer Hope is able to offer include free technical support, computer product information, free online forum, computer product buying tips, third-party computer company information, computer dictionary, weekly computer newsletter, daily computer news, and much more. Each of these services help make Computer Hope the number one free computer services on the Internet.

  • http://www.chiff.com/computer/data-recovery.htm - failing hard disk recovery guides.

  • http://www.pchell.com/ - Everyone has been to PC Hell at one time or another. It's that place you visit when your personal computer is driving you insane with problems, glitches, and so on. To try to soothe the frustration, we'll provide some tips, hints, and troubleshooting remedies to help you get out of PC Hell. Be warned however, sometimes there is no exit….