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It seems like once a week I see a thread asking about how to recover data after accidentally deleting a partition, installing a new OS without a backup or deleting something important. Hopefully a consolidated data recovery thread will save someone else some time and heartache in a crunch.
Please add anything relevant or missing.
The fridge trick
Place your hard drive in an anti-static bag with desiccant and leave in the freezer for 24 hours. Remove and quickly connect to computer, a limited amount of time might be available to recover data.
Software
Get Data Back - http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-products.htm
Recover your files when the data is no longer accessible due to formatting, fdisk, virus attack, power or software failure. Get everything back even when the drive's partition table, boot record, Master File Table or root directory is lost or corrupt.
The Demo shows you what it can find, pay the license to recover the data
PC Inspector File Recovery - Free but not Vista compatible
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1
Bootdisks:
Linux live CDs
Most live CDs can read fat32 and NTFS disks and recovery data when Windows will not boot. ubuntu is an easy one to start with.
Ultimate Boot CD - Free bootable ISO
http://ultimatebootcd.com/
Please add anything relevant or missing.
The fridge trick
Place your hard drive in an anti-static bag with desiccant and leave in the freezer for 24 hours. Remove and quickly connect to computer, a limited amount of time might be available to recover data.
Software
Get Data Back - http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-products.htm
Recover your files when the data is no longer accessible due to formatting, fdisk, virus attack, power or software failure. Get everything back even when the drive's partition table, boot record, Master File Table or root directory is lost or corrupt.
The Demo shows you what it can find, pay the license to recover the data
PC Inspector File Recovery - Free but not Vista compatible
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1
Bootdisks:
Linux live CDs
Most live CDs can read fat32 and NTFS disks and recovery data when Windows will not boot. ubuntu is an easy one to start with.
Ultimate Boot CD - Free bootable ISO
http://ultimatebootcd.com/