Partition Find and Mount

Losing partitions is not an event everybody deals with. Deleting a partition is not easy to get done, at least not from inside the File Explorer. One can have a partition removed as a result of specific actions like virus infection, power outages, or data corruption. The partition on itself is not important, as the memory it takes cannot be chopped off, it simply gets reallocated. However, the data stored on such partitions is the issue.

Partition Find and Mount, as the name suggests, is a handy tool that comes to your help in case you've lost a partition or more, no matter the reason.

Find is the first part of the business, so when the app is run, all existing drives will be identified. No distinction is made between HDDs and SDDs. The list contains only their names, and sizes. A scan must be run on each drive to figure out if they have any lost partitions. Three scanning methods are available.

The recommended one is called Intellectual Scan. It has a small description like all three methods do, but there is no explanation for why it's "intellectual." The Normal Scan follows up, and this scanning type appears to check all areas of the disk where standard partitioning tools are allowed to place the beginning of a partition.

The final method is Thorough Scan, and this one will take the most amount of time for completion, as it looks into every sector of the drive while digging up valid partitions.

Once the scanning is all completed, mounting lost partitions and creating disk images can ensue. Each drive will generate a combo menu for detected partitions. Use the context menu or the toolbar to mount any partition as a virtual disk image. If you wish to create disk images for those partitions, you can do that from the Create Image option.

In conclusion, Partition Find and Mount is an interesting tool that would prove very useful in rare situations where a user suspects a partition was lost or deleted. It has a steep learning curve and a layout that looks good even to this day, taking into consideration that this is not a brand-new application.