You may also find these tools in numerous system diagnostics boot disks such as Hiren’s Boot CD to recover hard disk data without having to install the operating system. ![]() Ubuntu open source repository includes 2 widely used tools namely TestDisk and Foremost, to perform low-level data restoration operations. ![]() ![]() Since Ubuntu Live disk enables users to run the OS in an isolated environment without having to follow standard OS installation method, you can use it to mount the hard drive and run the data recovery operations over the entire disk. What if you want to recover data from disk partition that holds Windows? What would be the most convenient way to run disk recovery operation over an entire disk (including all basic, extended, logical partitions and unallocated space), especially when system fails to boot up? ![]() Similarly, there are a great deal of data recovery applications available for Windows such as Recuva, Power Data Recovery, Undelete 360, RecoveryDesk etc, which can seamlessly perform the data recovery operations over not only auxilirary disks, but also removable disks including USB drives, external hard disks, SD cards and so on. In our previous guide on securely wiping the hard disk and removable media via Ubuntu Live and DBAN boot CD, we discussed that Windows based disk shredding applications don’t allow wiping the disk partition where Windows is installed.
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