Best free lost partition recovery software

Lost partition recovery

Partition loss could be disastrous for it brings about more serious consequence than data loss. Partition loss means all data of an entire partition is gone, however, data loss just means loss of a portion of data. When faced with data loss, some users anxiously employ the system built-in disk management tool to repartition disk, hoping to, recover lost data. However, this operation, instead of recovering your data of lost partition, does in fact exert second damage to lost data, increasing the difficulty of recovering data. If the lost data has been overwritten, it would be hard to recover what you want in the lost partition.

So the first thing after data loss is to make sure that you haven't done anything that might further damage the region where data loss happens, especially try not to employ the Windows built-in disk management tool to repartition disk. To identify the cause of your partition loss and choose the right third-party data recovery software is the thing you should do in order to properly recover data.

Introduction to EaseUS data recovery software

Data Recovery Wizard provides a free edition developed by EaseUS, gathering features of powerful function, highly efficient and ease-to-use. Furthermore, it runs perfectly under 32/64 bit (whatever personal, professional or corporate edition) operating systems including Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 and supports all kinds of file systems like FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS, etc. In addition, Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition bears three data recovery modules: "Deleted File Recovery", "Complete Recovery", "Partition Recovery".

Deleted File Recovery: This module is used for recovering data emptied from the recycle bin or data deleted by pressing Shift+Delete key.

Complete Recovery: It is used when your partition becomes RAW in a situation like a popped-up window asking you "The disk in drive F is formatted. Do you want to format it now?" or your partition has been accidentally formatted.

Partition Recovery: This module is designed for partition loss. So if you find your partition has lost, you must choose this module to recover lost data.

Lost partition recovery with free data recovery software

Therefore, to recover data from missing or lost partition, you should click the "Partition Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard.

What's more, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard allows user to choose certain types of files for search so that much time can be saved to find the files you want to recover from the search result.

After that, you just need follow the wizard and lost data can be found within a few clicks.

For more detailed steps, please see "How do I recover data from deleted, missing or lost drives".

If you are running Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) & 10.6 (Snow Leopard) & 10.5 (Leopard), please go to see EaseUS Mac data recovery software.

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