There might be many reasons for partitions getting lost or corrupted and these could be dangerous if you have lot of data in the drives. EASEUS Partition Recovery is a freeware tool which allows you to recover lost and accidently deleted partitions. It can recover deleted or lost partition which are in FAT, NTFS, Ext2/Ext3 formats. It comes with an easy to use wizard interface walks you through all the partition recovery process.
You can chose an specific area to search for lost partitions.
Features;
- Free for both home and commercial users.
- Use it with ease: a wizard interface walks you through all the partition recovery process.
- Recover deleted or lost partition quickly and easily.
- Offer several optional scan areas helps locate the lost partition quickly.
- Support FAT, NTFS, Ext2/Ext3 file system.
- Support IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI drives.
- Support Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7.
I have tried it, works well with detailed steps instruction:
http://www.easeus.com/resource/partition-recovery.htm