Harddisk Data Recovery

Fire - FIRE is a portable bootable cdrom based distribution with the goal of providing an immediate environment to perform forensic analysis, incident response, data recovery, virus scanning and vulnerability assessment. Also provides necessary tools for live forensics/analysis on win32, sparc solaris and x86 linux hosts just by mounting the cdrom and using trusted static binaries available in /statbins.

LDE - LDE is a disk editor for linux, originally written to help recover deleted files. It has a simple curses interface that was supposed to resemble an old version of Norton Disk Edit for DOS. Works well with ext2, minix, xiafs. Not so hot w/fat and iso9660

NTFS Reader - NTFS Reader DOS Boot Disk provides read access to NTFS drives from the MS DOS environment. Its data recovery functionality includes support for 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 this data recovery tool you need to copy the readntfs.exe file to a bootable floppy disk and boot from it. You can use NTFS Reader for DOS to recover data from NTFS drives in Windows 98 95 and 3.1. Although this is a DOS program, it can be run from Windows.

Restoration - Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows. Upon start, you can scan for all files that may be recovered and also limit the results by entering a search term or extension. In addition, Restoration also provides an option to wipe the found files beyond simple recovery. And as such it is not only a data-recovery tool but also a security cleanup application. You can use it after deletion of confidential documents, embarrassing files and so on. The program is very small and standalone, it does not require installation and can also run from a Floppy disk. Restoration works with FAT and NTFS as well as digital cameras cards.

PC Inspector File Recovery - PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program with support for FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. It recovers files with the original time and date stamp, and can optionally restore them to a network drive and can recover many files, even when a header entry is no longer available. On FAT systems, the programs finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged. PC Inspector File Recovery offers an easy to use interface that will scan your drive and automatically make files that can be recovered available from a "Deleted" folder in an Explorer Style navigation tree. To be able to use PC Inspector File Recovery you need a working Windows System. Never install the current version on the drive from which you intend to recover data! The program must be installed and run on a second, independent drive.