


This is one of those tools you hope you never have to use, but when you do have to use it, you’ll be glad you have it and hope it works. TestDisk ( Figure B) is a partition recovery tool that can help you recover lost partitions and make bootable non-bootable drives. Figure A Portable Data Recovery 2: TestDisk When you recover data, make sure you recover to a drive other than the one the data is recovered from. Portable Data Recovery also includes a wipe tool that will allow you to permanently delete a file to protect deleted sensitive data. It’s less than 500K and can recover some compressed and encrypted files. Portable Data Recovery ( Figure A) is one of the Pendrive Apps and does a great job of recovering data from FAT, FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS partitions. Note: This list is also available as a photo gallery. All these tools are free and can be placed on a flash drive for portability. Here are five tools that can help you with partition recovery and file recovery. But you can’t always rely on an installed tool and have to make use of a portable tool. No matter how the data gets lost, you’ll need a reliable tool to get the recovery job done. People lose data, either by accidental deletion or thanks to problematic partition tables. Sooner or later, recovery will be a necessary task for every IT administrator. Our powerful software search and discovery tools are now much easier to use, with all project categorization types now available as filters on the left side of the Directory pages.Undelete files, recover data, and fix damaged partitions with the help of these handy portable apps. In addition, we provide great detail and granularity of the statistics to project admins. We also offer developers the optional ability to display user reviews on their project page.

On the developer side, we provide detailed download statistics and versatile mailing lists to project admins. There are many great OSS platforms for developers, but for the layman, non-technical, end-user, SourceForge is the easiest platform to find and install a project. We're talking about a destination for end-users to find and download and install the software they need, similar to an App Store but for FOSS. We have the most robust search and discovery system of any open source repository on the web, and offer an unparalleled experience for end-users looking for software binaries they can download and install with the click of a button.
