Directory of Error Checking and Repair Resources

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Tools that examine a disk's physical sectors and file system structure for corruption. Sometimes partially corrupted data can be recovered, and affected sectors marked as bad, not to be used again.

Resources in This Category

• A-FF Laboratory

  http://www.hdd-tools.com/
  Software that can unlock drives locked by ATA passwords using Repair Station.

• Abstradrome

  http://www.abstradrome.com/
  Offers new data recovery software products that repair damaged hard disk drives and rescue lost data.

• Active Partition Recovery

  http://www.partition-recovery.com/partition.htm
  DOS software that helps to recover deleted partition and logical disks on hard drives. Can backup and restore MBR, partition table, boot sectors. Scan hard drives and detect deleted FAT and NTFS partitions and/or Logical Drives Runs from startup disk.

• Active@ Undelete For Windows

  http://www.active-undelete.com/
  Restore deleted files, and folders on local and network drives. Software supports recovery from FAT, NTFS partitions and removable devices like Secure Digital, CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MemoryStick, Iomega ZIP and JAZ.

• Active@ Uneraser for DOS

  http://www.uneraser.com/
  Undelete utility that can recover deleted files and folders on FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS systems. Support LBA mode for access to large hard drives.

• Advanced Utilities GmbH

  http://www.recover4all.com/
  Data recovery software which undeletes accidentally deleted files from all FAT and NTFS file systems. [Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP]

• Alkonost MaxFormat

  http://www.alkonost.com/maxformat/index.html
  Format floppy disks in various formats, including the DMF format. [Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000]

• BadCopy Pro

  http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/
  Automatic data recovery tool, restore destroyed data and any type of files on floppy disk or CD-ROM. Shareware runs under Windows.

• BinaryBiz

  https://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/windows.html
  Offers data recovery software for Windows. Damaged partitions, deleted files, formatted drives, virus attack and a multitude of other loss scenarios are easily recovered. Works on fixed disks, removable disks, RAID and flash memory.

• BitMart Inc.

  http://www.bitmart.net/
  Restorer2000 can undelete files deleted accidentally in NTFS partitions, and can even reconstruct formatted and corrupted drives. Software descriptions, FAQs, demo download, and contact details. [Windows NT/2000/XP]

• Boomerang Data Recovery

  http://www.boomdrs.com/
  Software that recovers data from a variety of disk related problems including files deleted but not overwritten. Windows and Mac OS X supported.

• CD Data Rescue

  http://www.naltech.com/
  Recover data from damaged or defective CD-ROMs and CD-Rs. recover files, folders, and entire CDs, as well as select the consistency check threshold, and adjust the feedback and retry levels. 30-day trial available. [Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP]

• CDRoller

  http://www.cdroller.com/htm/rescue.html
  CD Data Rescue is an useful feature of CDRoller to recover CD data while reading a damaged CD-ROM that have scratched, defective or poor written areas.

• Centro Recupero dati

  http://www.recuperodati.net/
  [Italy] Offers free diagnosis and it's specialized in recovering lost, deleted or corrupted data.

• Data Recovery, Inc

  http://www.data-recovery-labs.com/
  Provides links to proper tools and equipment for data recovey professionals.

• Datanumen

  http://www.datanumen.com/
  Tools to repair corrupt files, including ZIP, Word, Excel and Outlook files. Also offer tools for database recovery.

• Davory Data Recovery

  http://www.x-ways.net/davory/
  Software that undeletes files and recovers lost files from damaged or erroneously formatted hard drives, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, and other media types. Product specifications, screenshots, support forum, FAQs and downloads.

• DBF recovery

  http://www.dbfdatabaserecovery.com/
  Repairs corrupted Foxpro database file and dBase File, backup archives corrupted due to unrecognized database format, virus attacks or media corruption.

• Deepspar Data Recovery Systems

  http://www.deepspar.com/
  Provides data recovery, drive restoration and data extraction software for data recovery professionals

• DFSee

  http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/index.php
  Homepage of the multi-platform disk tool DFSee. For disk related problems, partitioning, data recovery, partition table repair, undelete, resize, imaging and cloning.

• Disk Checker

  http://www.rssoftlab.com/
  Scans disk surface, files, and folders for errors with disk image working and backup ability. Many media types, command line, log-file and shell context menu are supported. [Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista]

• Disk Doctor Labs Inc.

  http://www.diskdoctors.net/
  Provides data recovery software.

• Disk Investigator

  http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html
  Recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. [Freeware]

• DiskInternals

  http://www.diskinternals.com/
  Provides software for recovering data from any storage media including hard disks, removable disks, digital cameras, CDs and DVDs.

• DIY DataRecovery

  http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/
  Offers shareware and freeware data recovery utilities. Recover files from corrupt FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and Linux file systems EXT(x) and XFS volumes, rebuild MBR and partition table information from scratch.

• DPO Software

  http://www.dposoft.net/
  New hard drive repair and documents recovery solutions, HDD Regenerator eliminates physical damages (bad sectors) of hard disk drive surface. DOC Regenerator recovers lost, accidentally deleted, overwritten and corrupted Microsoft Word documents.

• Drive Explorer

  http://funtom.webz.cz/drivex/
  Displays all drives and information, shows the name of the current disk or partition (Volume Label).

• Dvdisaster

  http://www.dvdisaster.net/
  Open source application that makes it possible to rescue damaged CD, DVD and Blu-Ray discs by adding error correction data either to the medium itself or as separate error correction files. Includes detailed documentation.

• e-ROL

  http://www.e-rol.com/en/
  Recovers deleted files on FAT and NTFS partitions over the Internet using an ActiveX control application.

• Easeus

  http://www.easeus.com/
  Sells data recovery and other disk management software that allow to recover data from damaged or lost partitions.

• Final Data Recovery

  http://www.finaldata.com/
  Provides data recovery software, an undelete utility, and e-mail recovery tools.

• FinalRecovery

  http://www.finalrecovery.com/
  Recovers and clean up deleted files and folders from hard disks, and floppy disks that were formatted in FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems, and works under Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP operating systems.

• Greenergy: Fujitsu Harddisk Recovery

  http://www.greenergy.com.sg/datarecovery/datarcfj.asp
  Fujitsu data recovery services in Singapore, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

• Handy Recovery

  http://www.handyrecovery.com/
  Data recovery software for restoring accidentally deleted files. Can recover files from deleted and formatted partitions or create disk images for deferred recovery. [Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003]

• HDDlife Pro

  http://www.hddlife.com/
  Real-time hard drive statistics, alerts, malfunction protection, free download.

• Hdguard

  http://www.hdguard.com/
  Hard disk rollback software that restores the hard disk state on each reboot.

• HetmanRecovery.com

  http://hetmanrecovery.com/
  Restore lost data from NTFS, FAT, and VFAT storage including photos from formatted or corrupted camera memory cards.

• ICS-IQ.com

  http://www.ics-iq.com/
  Design and manufacture of hard drive data duplication and recovery equipment, software cloning solutions and diagnostic systems.

• IsoBuster

  http://www.isobuster.com/
  Data recovery from damaged or erased CD, DVD, BD, HDD, Flash, USB stick, SD, MMC, Compaq, Jaz, Zip, Floppy, Diskette and similar media.

• LC Technology

  http://www.lc-tech.com/
  File recovery and hard drive data recovery software.

• LDE - The Linux Disk Editor

  http://lde.sourceforge.net/
  Disk editor for Linux, originally written to help recover deleted files. It has a simple ncurses interface that resembles an old version of Norton Disk Edit for DOS.

• Ltools, Linux to Windows conversion

  http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools/ltools.html
  Manage Linux/Unix file systems under Windows GUI

• Magic Recovery

  http://www.software-recovery.com/
  Offering software for data recovery runs on Windows and MS-DOS. Product specifications, downloads, screenshots, and contact details.

• Micromat, Inc.

  http://www.micromat.com/
  Macintosh system and drive monitoring, diagnostic, troubleshooting and repair utilities. TechTool (basic, Pro, and Deluxe versions), Drive 10.

• MiniTool Solution Ltd

  https://www.powerdatarecovery.com/
  Data recovery utilities for a number of media.

• Norton Utilities

  http://us.norton.com/norton-utilities
  Tool suite to optimize performance and solve system problems, including Disk Doctor and SpeedDisk. For Windows platforms, from Symantec.

• Object Rescue

  http://www.objectrescue.com/
  Data recovery software with support for hard drives, floppy drives, compact flash and other removable media.

• QueTek Consulting Corporation

  http://www.quetek.com/
  Data recovery and file undelete software. Recover deleted files for Windows NT/2000/XP. Recover files removed from Recycle Bin, DOS command, network share. Restore data on formatted or corrupt partitions, and broken RAID disks.

• R-Undelete

  http://www.r-undelete.com/
  File undelete software designed for FAT, NTFS, NTFS5, and Ext2FS file systems can undelete files on valid logical disks visible by the OS. Download a demo.

• Recover Data

  http://www.recoverdatatools.com/
  Recover data provides data recovery software tools to recover deleted or lost files and data from formatted partitions or deleted hard drive partitions.

• Recover My Files

  http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
  Data recovery software for recovering files that have been deleted or lost due to the hard drive format, virus infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure.

• Recoverdm

  http://www.vanheusden.com/recoverdm/
  Software for recovering damaged files or disks with bad sectors. Media like floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and DVDs. Requires fvhlib 2.0 or higher.

• RecoverYourData

  http://www.recoveryourdata.com/
  Free Quick Recovery Analyzer from Unistal Systems Ltd.

• Salvation Data

  http://www.salvationdata.com/
  Provides data recovery and HDD repair software.

• Startdefrag Windows 2000 Defragmenter Scheduler

  http://kevin.gearhart.com/startdefrag/
  This program facilitates scheduling of hard drive defragmentation on the Windows 2000 operating system. Scheduling is not supported by the standard defrag software included with the OS.

• Stellar Information Systems Ltd.

  http://www.stellarinfo.com/
  Stellar Phoenix is designed to analyze and recover data from hard disk drives that have been corrupted by a virus attack, accidental format, software malfunction, human error or even a sabotage. Also offers hard drive data recovery software tools, disk recovery utilities, safe data and file eraser utility, and data recovery services.

• StorageTools

  http://www.softwinter.com/storagetools.html
  Storage card management solution, product offers defragmentation functionality for Pocket PC devices. Format, scan and defrag, file system, and storage cards. Format storage media with different file system and cluster size. Supports all Windows CE storage media: MMC/SD, and compact flash.

• The Undelete

  http://the-undelete.com/
  The Undelete recovers deleted, lost files, as well as files deleted from Windows Recycle Bin. The Undelete recovers files of all types.

• UFS Explorer

  http://www.ufsexplorer.com/
  Data recovery software for FAT, NTFS, UFS, XFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, HFS file systems with RAID recovery support and wide range of tools for most effective data recovery.

• Undelete

  http://www.condusiv.com/products/undelete/
  Recover deleted files instantly, no matter where across the network they were deleted from. Protect data full-time, even recover files deleted before installing Undelete.

• Zero Assumption Recovery Software

  http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
  Shareware FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS data recovery tools, which allow copying data to a safe location. [DOS and Windows]

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