Hard drives rarely fail these days, but there are plenty of other ways you can lose your valuable data. A single byte change in the partition table, for instance, either by accident or caused by a virus or Trojan, can mean one of your drive partitions will disappear completely.

However, Paragon Partition Undelete could recover your files quickly, even if you’re a partition management novice. The process starts once you’ve launched Partition Undelete and chosen where you’d like to search. Pick a drive with no unpartitioned space – this way you can’t go any further and inadvertently damage a working partition table.

If you choose the problem drive, though, Partition Undelete will scan it sector by sector, looking for the file system of your missing partition. Anything discovered is presented for your approval, and if you say it’s correct, Partition Undelete will rewrite the partition table entry for you.

The program can’t solve every problem, though and it may not help if it is your partition that has been damaged, rather than just the partition table entry.

Still, it’s well worth including this in your data recovery toolkit as extra insurance against potential disasters.