• http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/HD_Workbench.htm - Allows you to monitor your disk health, scan it for bad sectors, replace bad sectors and image a failing disk.
  

•  http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htmquot - "DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives."

• http://www.partition-saving.com/ - "Partition Saving is a DOS program that is used to save, restore and copy hard-drive, partitions, floppy disk and DOS devices." 

• http://www.roadkil.net/RawCopy.html - "This program copies a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. This utility is designed for people who have faulty drive and want to transfer the data directly to another drive without doing a file by file copy. This saves the need for operating system re-installs and allows drives with an unknown file system to be copied (including from console game machines, data recorders, Mac etc). The program has a built in data recovery function which will attempt to recover data from bad sectors to ensure all the available data is restored from the drive." 

• http://www.roadkil.net/DiskImg.html - "Creates and writes disk images files to hard and floppy disks. Great for writing boot disk images download from the internet or creating a perfect copy of a disk to email to someone else."  

• http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/hdcopy_e.htm - "With HDCopy you can make an identical copy of a hard drive onto another hard drive. If you buy a new hard drive and don't wish to change your Windows configuration in any way, you can use HDCopy to copy your old hard drive completely to the new one (hidden files as well."  

• http://www.restorer2000.com/ - "Restorer2000 Free DEMO 2.0 allows you to evaluate Restorer2000 products and displays your hard drive structure with deleted files and folders. Also, with Restorer2000 Free DEMO 2.0 you can create an Image file for an entire disk, partition or its part. Then the Image file can be used like regular disk."  Comment - Interestingly the Demo's disk imaging feature works in unlimited for free but the undelete only shows you what can be undeleted.  Thus free disk imaging. :-)  

• http://www.diskman.co.uk/default.aspx -  "Diskman is free for noncommercial use. Diskman products may be licensed for commercial use and may be fully customized to suit particular application requirements. The core Diskman library supports a variety of file system and disk manipulation commands which can be used to extract and modify information not normally available from the OS. Diskman is currently supported by MS-DOS (and its clones) and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP . A Linux version of Diskman may be developed in the future. Diskman 4 is the latest MS-DOS compatible release." 

• http://www.vanheusden.com/recoverdm/ - "This program will help you recover disks with bad sectors. You can recover files as well complete devices.  In case if finds sectors which simply cannot be recovered, it writes an empty sector to the outputfile and continues. If you're recovering a CD or a DVD and the program cannot read the sector in "normal mode", then the program will try to read the sector in "RAW mode" (without error-checking etc.). This toolkit also has a utility called 'mergebad': mergebad merges multiple images into one. This can be useful when you have, for example, multiple CD's with the same data which are all damaged. In such case, you can then first use recoverdm to retrieve the data from the damaged CD's into image-files and then combine them into one image with mergebad."  

• http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/scrounge/ - “{Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition. I wrote this program when one of my friends lost valuable data on an NTFS drive. It been used since then in several cases, but not thoroughly tested, especially not WRT the fact that it's a data recovery program. You should have your partition information stored away in advance. This allows reliable retrieval of file info."

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Developer - CONVAR Die Datenretter

OS - Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

File Size - 749 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - "The copying process is always based on the physical drive and is independent of the file system (e.g. FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, NTFS, Ext2, Reiser, etc.) or the number of partitions."

Developer Provided Description - "PC INSPECTOR clone maxx is the new professional hard drive copying program from CONVAR. Using the new direct DMA support, data can be copied from hard drives in high speed mode with speeds up to 3.3 GB per minute."

Comment - CONVAR Die Datenretter who provide the highest quality set of general use data recovery software on the Internet.  Check out all their software, it's quite impressive for them to give this stuff away.  Does not seem to work with serial ATA drives. 

Name - DriveImage XML

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Download URL - dixmlsetup.exe

Developer - Run Time Software

OS - Windows XP Home Professional only

File Size - 1.36 MB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT 12/16/32/NTFS

Developer Provided Description - "DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to:

Backup logical drives and partitions to image files
Browse these images, view and extract files
Restore these images to the same or a different drive
Copy directly from drive to drive
Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use.

Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a useless backup!

Restore images to drives without having to reboot."

Comment - Free for home use. 

Name - Partition Saving

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Download URL - savepart.zip

Developer - D. Guibouret

OS - DOS

File Size - 459 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - "Most partition types are supported. In the case of FAT (12, 16 and 32), ext2/3 and NTFS partitions, you can choose between saving all sectors or in-use sectors only."

Developer Provided Description - "Partition Saving is a DOS program that is used to save, restore and copy hard-drive, partitions, floppy disk and DOS devices.

With this program you could save all data on a partition to a file (such as you could save this file on a CD for example). Then if something goes wrong, you can completely restore the partition from the backup file. You no longer have to reinstall every piece of software from scratch. All you have to do is restore the partition from the backup file and then update any software that was modified since the backup was created. "

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Name - Roadkil's Raw Copy

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Developer - RoadKil

OS - Windows NT/2000/XP

File Size - 41 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT16/32/NTFS

Developer Provided Description - "This program copies a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. This utility is designed for people who have faulty drive and want to transfer the data directly to another drive without doing a file by file copy. This saves the need for operating system re-installs and allows drives with an unknown file system to be copied (including from console game machines, data recorders, Mac etc). The program has a built in data recovery function which will attempt to recover data from bad sectors to ensure all the available data is restored from the drive. This program is designed to run under nt/xp/2000 or later operating systems. It will run under Windows 95/98/Me operating systems but only Windows logical drives can be copied."

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Name - Roadkil's Disk Image

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Developer - RoadKil

OS - Windows NT/2000/XP

File Size - 43.3 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT16/32/NTFS

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Comment - "Creates and writes disk images files to hard and floppy disks. Great for writing boot disk images download from the internet or creating a perfect copy of a disk to email to someone else." 

Name - HDCopy

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Download URL - Download Here

Developer - Kurt Zimmermann

OS - Windows 95, 98 and Me

File Size - 151 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not currently available. May be added later.

Developer Provided Description - "With HDCopy you can make an identical copy of a hard drive onto another hard drive. If you buy a new hard drive and don't wish to change your Windows configuration in any way, you can use HDCopy to copy your old hard drive completely to the new one (hidden files as well."

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Name - Restorer2000 Free DEMO

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Developer - bitMart Inc.

OS - Windows All

File Size - 1.3 MB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not currently available. May be added later.

Developer Provided Description - "Restorer2000 Free DEMO 2.0 allows you to evaluate Restorer2000 products and displays your hard drive structure with deleted files and folders. Also, with Restorer2000 Free DEMO 2.0 you can create an Image file for an entire disk, partition or its part. Then the Image file can be used like regular disk." 

Comment - Interestingly the Demo's disk imaging feature works in unlimited for free but the undelete only shows you what can be undeleted.  Thus free disk imaging. :-) 

Name - Diskman

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Developer - Diskman

OS - Windows 95/98/NT/2000

File Size - 3417 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT16/32/NTFS

Developer Provided Description - "Diskman is free for noncommercial use. Diskman products may be licensed for commercial use and may be fully customized to suit particular application requirements. The core Diskman library supports a variety of file system and disk manipulation commands which can be used to extract and modify information not normally available from the OS. Diskman is currently supported by MS-DOS (and its clones) and Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP . A Linux version of Diskman may be developed in the future. Diskman 4 is the latest MS-DOS compatible release:

Backup and restore VFAT ( Windows 9X/NT/2000). Long File Names (LFN). Archive compatible with DOSLFNBK, the leading LFN backup utility. Support for disk image files up to 2GB (4GB Not currently available. May be added later.). Support for spanned image files up to 2TB. Mount and manipulate disk images (such as those created for Rawrite). Export volumes or entire physical drives for later restore. Quickly copy every file into image files for easy backup and later restore. Directly edit disks at the sector level. Support for all BIOS supported disks, DOS supported drives and Image files. Help repair disks after a virus attack or rescue critical data."

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Name - recoverdm

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Download URL - Download

Developer - Van Huesden

OS - Mac

File Size - 9 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Mac, Unix File Systems

Developer Provided Description - "This program will help you recover disks with bad sectors. You can recover files as well complete devices.  In case if finds sectors which simply cannot be recovered, it writes an empty sector to the outputfile and continues. If you're recovering a CD or a DVD and the program cannot read the sector in "normal mode", then the program will try to read the sector in "RAW mode" (without error-checking etc.). This toolkit also has a utility called 'mergebad': mergebad merges multiple images into one. This can be useful when you have, for example, multiple CD's with the same data which are all damaged. In such case, you can then first use recoverdm to retrieve the data from the damaged CD's into image-files and then combine them into one image with mergebad."

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Name - Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier

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Developer - RoadKil

OS - Windows NT/2000/XP

File Size - 46.7 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT16/32/NTFS

Developer Provided Description - "Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end."

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Name - DS File Ops Kit

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Download URL - dsfok.zip

Developer - Dariusz Stanislawek

OS - DOS

File Size - 76 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Any

Developer Provided Description - "with the DS File Ops Kit you can:

- backup any disk partition, including "live" and "hidden"
- backup entire disk, including "live"
- create an ISO CD-ROM or DVD-ROM image
- create a floppy disk image
- restore a floppy disk image
- save a block of data of any size from any location within a file
- overwrite a block of data of any size at any location within a file
- instantly create a file of any size
- truncate or extend files
- encrypt or decrypt files and directly overwrite them
- scan the volumes of a computer and get detailed infos
- check MD5 signature of a partial or complete data object
- join two files
- scramble a file with the contents of another one (OTP)
- do a bitwise reversion operation on any file
- securely erase files, partitions and disks
EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES
- restore disk partitions
- restore entire disk
(fast sector-level transfer)"

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Download URL - Scrounge NTFS

Developer - Nielsen

OS - Windows Me/NT/2000/XP

File Size - Not Specified

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified

Developer Provided Description - Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition. I wrote this program when one of my friends lost valuable data on an NTFS drive. It been used since then in several cases, but not thoroughly tested, especially not WRT the fact that it's a data recovery program. You should have your partition information stored away in advance. This allows reliable retrieval of file info.

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Download URL - SalvageNTFS

Developer - SalvageNTFS

OS - Windows

File Size - Not Specified

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified

Developer Provided Description - SalvageNTFS is a set of applications and an associated library aimed at data recovery from NTFS volumes, made freely available under the terms of the GNU General Purpose License. It can "undelete" files, bypass file system permissions, and retrieve information from badly corrupted or inconsistent volumes.

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