are there any free partition recovery programs

[WINTERLORD]

anyone know of any free programs to recover an accidental deleted partiotion it hasnt been written over or anything just delted with all my files in it

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Not a 'partition' but more like file recovery and depends what you did. For example if you merged partitions together, yes that deleted partition is gone. If you just deleted D drive and didn't reallocate the space in any way (say make a new D drive or etc.) The the files are recoverable if you use a VERY LENGHTY BIT reader. Can take a couple of days to run (Recuva is the best bet). The only problems that normally you can run into is the space is unallocated, so to Windows doesn't exist in any way, no FREE programs are made normally to resolve that. What you would need is a Boot Disk that would look at the drive from the 'outside' and just look one sector at a time on the drive. Still probably take a few days depending on the size.

 

[WINTERLORD]

ok, what would be the cheapest boot disk i could buy and do those things come premade in a box like at bestbuy or somthin

 

[S Haran-1360974]

Testdisk is designed to recover lost partitions and it is free software.