Disk Investigator is a program that allows you to see everything on your computer's hard disk, undelete previously deleted files, and recover lost data

Recommends free tools to use in order to recover lost data.

NTFS.com host a collection of freeware and shareware data recovery tools.

BartPE is a preinstalled environment builder for windows.

GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application that helps you re-organize the partitions on a computer hard drive.

A consolidation of diagnostic tools onto one bootable cd.

This site is your own personal computer geek - able to fix PC problems in a single click; has in-depth step by step directions and some screen shots.

A potentially useful trick for recovering hard drive data.

A self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers.

Tutorial on using Knoppix for data recovery.

This website offers the free service of allowing you to back up your hard drive using their partition and imaging software.

Ever lose your rescue disk for your computer? SystemRescueCD makes those disks for those who run Linux on their computers.

TestDisk used to recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again after errors.

The partition table editors listed on this page allow you to create, resize, move, concatenate, copy, undelete (unerase) the partitions that you have on your hard disks.

How to back up and restore hard drives with Ghost4Linux.

This web site has downloads and relevant information for Personal Backup Appliance, a program which is used to backup and restore a hard drive over a network.

Computer forensics news and information that might be useful to those concerned with hard disk security.

Explains how to image either an entire hard disk or just a partition.

A download and information site for a program called Dirvish, which automatically makes regular backups of your data.

How to automatically back up a hard drive using a program called SyncBack.

This website offers free file recovery software for Windows systems.

app for visually determining disk usage far more powerful and useful than it sounds

Linux Journal is a magazine blog to help Linux Geeks keep up to date on the latest Linux news and technology.

Live View is a Java-based graphical forensics tool that creates a VMware virtual machine out of a raw (dd-style) disk image or physical disk.

A Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats to an image file.

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents, and archives from hard disks and CDRoms.

A powerful hard disk partitioning tool that enables the user to run multiple operating systems on a single disk.

rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems.

This site provides information, details, and download links to many versions of dd_rescue, a data rescue program.

Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted.

Tutorial explains how to use GParted to manage partitions

Tech hints hosts instructions for hard drive data recovery.

Mondo Rescue is a GPL disaster recovery solution that supports Linux and FreeBSD.

Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation

The Freeware Review offers this tutorial on data recovery using the PC Inspector File Recovery utility.

A NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks.

This site provides information on the GNU ddrescue software data recovery tool, including documentation and links for download and help.

Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool.