Plugging in the SD card into your PC to find out it is not getting detected could be the worst nightmare for anyone having thousands of pictures, music and other important data onto it. I have shared many How-to's and utilities to help users recover data but sadly all of them failed or were unable to recover all data on the SD-card which came to me for recovery. After doing a lot of research on why my computer is asking me to "Format" the SD-card instead of reading it's content, I was pretty sure the culprit was a bad file-system boot sector.

While 99.9% of the data recovery applications, both free and paid relied upon the same method to "Scan" and find data from the disk bypassing the file-system "registry" of the files, I was looking for something which will allow me to play with the damaged boot sector of the file-system to recover the underlying "file record registry". Luckily, what I found was not only open-source and free but supported advanced features which nothing else offered, the utility supported NTFS, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, BeFS, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Linux Raid, Linux Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS, ReiserFS, UFS and XFS filesystem and came with cross-platform binaries which can run under DOS, Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7 (x86 & x64), Windows 10, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS and MacOS X.

As an all-in-one disk management software, AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition comes with more than 30 brilliant functions and has many special functions to tackle common troublesome disk issues such as - low disk space in system drive, the conversion between GPT and MBR, common disk partition tasks, smart partition alignment, one-lick OS migration to SSD, easily creation of bootable CD and many others.

Here's an opportunity to grab this fully featured, all-in-one Windows partition manager utility worth $36 for free under an exclusive promo for our readers.

Free licensed copies of AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 4.0 were given away last new year. To celebrate the release of their new upgraded version "AOMEI Partition Assistant 5.0", we have been provided with free licenses of "AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 5.0" to giveaway to our readers.

AOMEI Partition Assistant 5.0 comes with many new features like support for Solid State Hard Drive (SSD) with easy, wizard styled OS migration functionality from HDD to SSD, Partition Alignment for optimized performance and lifespan of the disk and Partition Recovery Wizard to recover lost or deleted partitions. The utility also offers critical features like ability to create WinPE based bootable CD's for disk management via direct boot, fixing of corrupt Windows Master Boot Record (MBR), conversion of GPT disk to MBR disk without data losing, management of Linux partitions and changing of partition type ID and serial number.

Partition Table Doctor(PTD) is an powerful hard-disk partition table recovery tool, the utility can be a lifesaver when the disaster struck and your HDD partition table gets corrupted making data inaccessible - in such situations PTD makes it possible for users to automatically scan and repair the partition-table, MBR and boot-sector of partition error enabling data recovery on FAT16/ FAT32/NTFS/EXT2/EXT3/SWAP partitions of any IDE/ATA/SATA/SCSI hard-disk drive.

Partition Table Doctor makes it possible for advanced computer users to work with almost every aspect of partition-tables as it comes equipped with features like backup and restoration of partition table, rebuilding of partition table and MBR, making partition active, hiding of partition, scandisk, setting password for hard-disk, unlocking hard-disk, editing sectors, copying sectors, fill sectors on partition, and so on, the utility also supports creation of bootable emergency floppy-disk or CD making recovery possible even when the operating-system fails to boot.

Partition Table Doctor is available under a shareware license for $49.95 but under an exclusive giveaway ONLY for our readers the utility is being offered free to everybody by the parent company EASEUS, the utility is a must-have in your computer repair toolkit so don't let this opportunity go and do grab a full-version licensed legal version of the utility for future needs.