Partition Find and Mount

This software looks for specific signatures of partitions by scanning the storage device it is run on to find lost or deleted partitions. It has three different scan methods that can be applied: Intellectual Scan, Normal Scan and Thorough Scan, with the Intellectual Scan being the quickest and the Thorough Scan being the longest. Each scan gets more in-depth, starting with the Intellectual Scan and finishing with the Thorough Scan. The Intellectual Scan is recommended as the first option; it works best in most situations and, when only the Master Boot Record is damaged, it can find all partitions within seconds. The Normal Scan checks all areas of the disk where standard partitioning tools are allowed to place the beginning of a partition, but may not be able to find partitions if they were created using non-standard partitioning tools. A thorough scan can take up to several hours. Thorough scans look for valid partitions in every sector of the drive. The thorough scan is recommended if the Normal scan yields no results. You can also choose the point on the disk where the scan starts. Once a scan is complete the full list of found partitions will be displayed. Any found partition can be mounted into the system under a drive letter of your choice. To guarantee the partitions data will not be altered, nothing is written to the damaged drive and all partitions are mounted in read-only mode. Files on these partitions cannot be altered, only copied.

Features:

• Ability to create a binary image of any partition
• Ability to create an image of an entire hard drive and mount it later
• All versions of NTFS and FAT file systems are supported
• Supports non-standard disk layouts
• Works even if the Master Boot Record (MBR) is missing, damaged or overwritten
• Free for personal use (the free edition limits transfer speed to 512 KB/s)

Lost partitions become accessible as normal read-only drives, so files can be copied off without writing to the damaged disk.

Partition Find and Mount is designed to be easy to use and safe for your data, as no special knowledge is needed and nothing is written to the damaged disk. The official website publishes user testimonials about Partition Find and Mount, and the program is still offered for download, although its development was discontinued around 2011. It should be noted though that Partition Find and Mount may not work if a file system on a partition or the hard drive itself is severely damaged.