yea looking at hirens 14 it looks to be filled with freeware.
13.2 and the rest can be found at the usual suspects of course.
anyways lesson learned, if you have an old copy of partition magic installed, it will rape your drive. was trouble shooting one of my systems, figured i would bring up partition magic to see what it could do, it found an error on the drive it could fix when it started up, and then that drives partitions all disappeared. apparently partition magic will kill any win7/vista formated ntfs drive.
so i got to test data recovery software.
easeus data recovery - sees only 1 partition out of 4
recover my files - 1 out of 4
get data back - 4 outa 4
testdisk - cannot fix any partition
gparted - useless
lesson learned