How to recover deleted, crashed Hard Drive Data & Files.

This post applies to Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, and Mac OS X. If you’ve got “Error Loading OS”, “Error Loading Operating System”, damaged MBR, non-bootable Hard Disk, lost partition, and lost your data & files due to crashed Hard disk. You can recover your MBR, partitions, and recover your data by using right software.

Software you need:

Testdisk by CGsecurity.org
Download Testdisk here.

What is Testdisk?

Testdisk, created by Christophe Grenier is a extremely powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. You can even recover your compact flash and other memory sticks.

Testdisk is available for DOS/Windows 9X, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, Linux, and Mac OS X

How to use this tool?

Follow this wiki TestDisk documentation carefully or you can follow the instructions that appear when you execute the Testdisk.

Instructions and screenshots:

Note: Before you proceed, please read “Error Loading OS” post for your reference.

If you have installed Operating System on a single drive and you don’t have access to other computer to mount your damaged hard drive, you can download Ultimate Boot CD that contains Testdisk software. Visit Ultimateboocd.com

After you finish, you must restart your computer twice to see the results. At first restart, your computer will try to install your new (your recovered hard disk). On second restart, your computer will check your hard disk for any errors and try to fix everything before it loads operating system and hard disk data. If you have more than 2 hard disk drive, your partition disk letter can be changed.