Saving (Imaging) Free Disk Space (Unused Clusters) to Recover Deleted Files

"Probably the user who posted this question already there will be found another way to resolve your concern but a few hours ago I discovered a way to save all the ""empty"" sectors (what would come to be the free space on a hard drive) to a file, for which should do the following:

Download and install WinHex.
Open the program, go to the Tools menu and choose ""Open Disk"" where then have to choose the drive (logical or physical) of which you want to clone the free space.
In this step is necessary wait until the program make a snapshot of the open volume (although I'm not sure that this is indispensable).
At the end should show a window with two panels, the upper panel contains a file browser and the bottom shows the binary content of the drive. In the file browser have to look for a special file called ""Free space"" (usually is the last file in the list, or one of the last).
Only remains open this and save to another hard disk/flash drive with ""Save As"" (to avoid overwriting the free space itself)."

"Download and burn Hiren's 10.1 preferably using a different pc than the one with missing files.

Once you have a copy of the disc, from the recovery set of programs run getdataback ntfs or getdataback fat32, depending on the drive format type.

When recovering the files make sure they are recovered to a drive different from the one you are recovering from and all should be well.

Best of luck!"

"I am not sure of any free tool that does this (but would like one if anyone knows a good one!).

That aside, if you do not mind paying, I use R-Studio and it does exactly what you want, it allows you to make an offline image of an entire disk then scan that file for deleted files.

This program is brilliant... I personally use it on drives that are just out the freezer (the trick works!) so I can quickly make a full copy before it dies, then do the recovery in my own time."