Sometimes when a hard drive is improperly unmounted or subjected to software that otherwise modifies the drive's structure, you can end up with a few or all the partitions on a drive being ...

This post describes testdisk, one of the tools that comes in handy for recovering recently deleted files (along with fixing partitions in other ways). When you delete a file on a Linux system, it ...

The situations that can cause data loss or file deletion on a Mac are varied. You may accidentally delete files or empty the Trash bin without realizing some crucial files were included. However, ...

While there are dozens of data recovery tools that can help you recover data, most of them can only recover deleted files. These free software may prove to be of little use when recovering data due to ...

Data loss is a nightmare for any computer user, and Linux users are no exception. Despite the robust architecture of Linux operating systems, disasters can strike in the form of accidental deletions, ...

We’ve all done it before — moved a file into the Recycle Bin, and then pressed the Empty Trash button. Later, we found out that that was an important file that you needed to keep, but now it’s gone ...

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Here is the situation. My 60GXP is basically dead, it still spins and seeks, but it is incredibly slow, and the "click of death" is heard. There are two partitions on this 60GXP: a C: (for OS in NTFS) ...