You have probably seen lots of posts on this and other web sites touting one of Linux’s uses being a recovery tool. Of course, when this is said, it is usually a mere bullet point with no explanation of how to actually do the file recovery process. If you are looking for an actual walk through on how to accomplish this, be sure to check out this excellent article.

The author does a very good job in walking you through the process of recovering your Windows files by using a freely available Ubuntu Live CD. The author also makes good use of screenshots to illustrate all the major steps along the way.

This one is worthy of a bookmark in the event you ever do actually need to recover some of your data… of course make sure you put the bookmark somewhere you can get to it.