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I'd say that price is well worth it if you really need your disk (or a single partition) recovered. It works very reliably, but costs $100 USD (for the NTFS version). So it's not optimal at all but it works.Īfter spending several hours trying various free programs to recover my folders and files from my Windows XP NTFS disk that has the isolated I/O error, I finally found Partition Recovery 3.7, by DiskInternals.

Also it took quite long to detect all partitions and files - at least 40 minutes for a 80 GB disk. What I could not do is to actually restore the partition table. I also tried DiskInternals Partition Recovery 4.2 - it detected my deleted partitions and I could save all the files from all those partitions on another disk.

Other programs that might be capable to restore the partition table (haven't tested Partition Recovery. It restored the partition table and all partitions without any problem. Partition Wizard 7.6 could detect all 6 partitions even with a "Quick Scan" (it also has "Full Scan" option). It could detect all the partitions and it restored them without any problem. Also it could not detect the extended partition.Īfter that, I tried utilities from HIRENS Boot CD:ĭiskGenius (AKA PartitionGuru Pro 3.7) - it worked very nice. It could not guess the correct end of the third primary partition. I tried TestDisk and it restored only the first two partitions correctly. The hard disk had 3 primary partitions and 3 "logical" partitions inside an extended partition - all NTFS I deleted the MBR and the partition table of a hard disk in VirtualBox using "MBR Work" and " MBR Utility" intentionally, to see if I can restore the partition table.