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, ...

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 ...

TestDisk and PhotoRec are two utilities that run in a DOS box or from the command prompt and help you test disks for errors and recover data. Reviewer Jon L. Jacobi liked them and says they work well.

Storage media is more reliable than it’s ever been. But while drive failures are fewer and further between, technology improvements do nothing to protect you from ...

With the advancement of digital technology, today data has become the most important asset for the entire world. Be it a big company, an entire government or a household worker, data plays one of the ...

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 ...

If you’ve had files deleted by a hacker or you’ve accidentally removed them, Jack Wallen shows you how to recover that missing data with a handy tool called testdisk. It’s cybersecurity awareness ...