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Yesterday I was tinkering the partitions with Microsoft Disk Management in Windows XP.I’m not a big fan of it,but it’s pretty simple with that GUI.I wanted to delete my last partition and salvage some space for Linux, clicked on “Delete logical drive”. voila !!! the whole extended partition got deleted !!! so simple !

was wishing hard for an undo there. no way ! all my important files are gone in split seconds.

There came TestDisk for my rescue.

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software!

Within minutes all my partitions are recovered,the old MBR was restored.In windows it works in Command Line mode without any eye candy GUI, but it really serves its purpose.

TestDisk can

• Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
• Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
• Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
• Fix FAT tables
• Rebuild NTFS boot sector
• Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
• Fix MFT using MFT mirror
• Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
• Undelete files from FAT filesystem
• Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts.

TestDisk can run under

1. DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box)
2. Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista)
3. Linux
4. FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
5. SunOS and
6. MacOS

It has versions for

• Dos/Win9x, zip
• Windows NT/XP/2000/2003/Vista
• Linux, kernel 2.6.x i386/x86_64
• Linux, kernel 2.4.x i386/x86_64
• Linux i386 RPM
• Linux SRPM
• Mac OS X

TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems:

1. BeFS ( BeOS )
2. BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
3. CramFS, Compressed File System
4. DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
5. HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System
6. JFS, IBM’s Journaled File System
7. Linux ext2 and ext3
8. Linux LUKS encrypted partition
9. Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2
   RAID 1: mirroring
   RAID 4: striped array with parity device
   RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
   RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
10. Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
11. LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
12. Mac partition map
    Novell Storage Services NSS
13. NTFS ( Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 )
    ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
14. Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
15. Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/…)
16. XFS, SGI’s Journaled File System

Download here

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Workrave is a free software application intended to prevent computer users from developing or aggravating occupational diseases such as Carpal tunnel syndrome and Repetitive strain injuries. The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses while an anime character walks the user through various stretching exercises and urges them to take a coffee break.

The break prelude window, bugging you to take a micro-pause:

It’s coffee time:

Workrave on Linux:

Exercises:

This program does its job much better than their commercial counterparts.It has versions for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows. It even has network support and, best of all, it is FREE, Open source, no ads.

You can completely customize the time between breaks, it works with multiple user accounts on Windows XP, and it monitors the time you are working.

Here are some key features of “Workrave”:

· Distributed: The program runs distributed on one or more PCs. All connected PCs share the same timing information. When the user switches computers, he still will be asked to pause on time.
· Server data collect: All programs in a network report user data detailing break information, mouse and keyboard usage to a central server. The data stored on this server may be analysed to detect user behaviour and, for example, take proactive measures.
· Applet: The program is able to show status information in an applet that is embeddable in the desktop panel or taskbar.
It is licensed under GPL. If you use the computer on a daily basis you need to do your body a favor and install Workrave before it is too late.

Download here

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