If you've been working on a Word document for a long time then it's a nightmare when it suddenly corrupts or won't open.

The reasons for this are numerous and usually it's not your fault. If you've ever received any of the following messages then you'll know what I'm talking about: "The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions. Check the file permissions for the document or drive. Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document."; "Word cannot open the document."; "Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges."; "When you attempt to open a Microsoft Word 97 document into Microsoft Word version 6.x or 7.x, the document contains garbage characters." Repair My Word can come to the rescue if you've suffered any of these error messages and has the ability to repair Microsoft Word 6.0, Word 95, 97, 2000, XP, and 2003 for Windows. To use it, you simply open the corrupt Word file, preview the recoverable text in the preview window and save this text to a new error free Word file. However, don't expect miracles from this software because it doesn't work in all cases and in addition, even if it can, the rescued document is often a jumbled mess of words of symbols.

If you've ever lost a Word document to corruption or file error, then this is definitely worth a try.

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File Scavenger® Version 3 is a file undelete and data recovery utility for Windows XP®, Windows Server 2003®, Windows 2000® or Windows NT®. File Scavenger® can recover files accidentally deleted, including files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down, provided that recovery is attempted before the files are permanently overwritten by new data. File Scavenger® supports both basic and dynamic disks, NTFS compression, alternate data streams, sparse files, Unicode filenames, etc. Except in severe cases, both the file and the folder path leading to the file can be recovered. English and German versions are available.

With File Scavenger® files can be recovered from a reformatted or corrupted volume. This is even possible when the volume has been deleted and its original position and size are unknown. File Scavenger® can scan an entire physical hard drive to look for traces of defunct volumes.

File Scavenger® uses advanced algorithms to transparently handle disks with many bad sectors and badly corrupted partitions. The software can be installed on a hard drive or run from a floppy disk. To run File Scavenger®, you must log on as a system administrator to the computer where data recovery is intended.

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Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.

This includes files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or even MP3 players.

It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses.

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When you mistakenly delete some of your dearest photos from the camera or any removable device you feel like the most stupid person in the world. You would do just anything to go back in time and rescue those pictures! Fortunately there's no need to sell your soul to the devil or start saving for a time machine. Simply download this neat tool and let it do the job for you!

Free Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery scans any media drive (be it a memory card, an USB memory key or a camera directly plugged to your PC) and recovers all deleted photos. It's so easy as selecting the drive you deleted the pictures from and choosing a folder to save recovered images. Plus, it supports the most popular graphic formats.

The program includes some other recovery tools that may be useful in case your memory card appears to be corrupted. The interface is quite easy to use, and the main window shows some misleading links to other apps written by the same author (I say misleading because they look like buttons for the program's functions).

Please, bear in mind that photo recovery is not a miracle task that will always solve the issue. It all depends on how much time has passed after you deleted the pictures and, above all, if you have been using the drive where they were stored. In any case, you should definitely give this tool a try. You're not wasting any money and you may be able to recover your photos. Is there anything more valuable than that?

Recover photos deleted by mistake from your camera, memory card or USB removable device.

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Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. If you've ever accidently deleted a file or experienced problems with your system after a major change, check out undelete plus

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Are you trying to recover data from any of the following? If so, this is the “One Stop” undiluted recovery product, you cannot afford to miss.

With Magic Recovery Software Pro (V 3.2) technology you can tackle those very hard recovery situations, lost partitions, boot sectors. Magic Recovery Professional (V 3.2) has the ability to search out and display drives even if they are not visible in explorer.

With this software you will be able to display the full directory of each drive (even NTFS drives, where it is recoverable).

The software comes with our renowned and acclaimed ‘Non-Expert’ wizard, which gently guides you through the recovery process in a “Step by Step” guide.

Perhaps the most important tool within Magic Recovery Professional (V 3.2) is its Forensic capability, allowing you to print and save the drives contents showing; Creation date, Modified date and Accessed date. This is essential if you intend to bring criminal charges or need to track and record computer usage within an organisation.

Features:

• Lost or Deleted Partitions
• Accidental or Malicious Formats
• Corrupted installations
• Virus attacks
• Deletions - over networks or local
• Virtually any logical disk disaster
• Support for RAID
• Lost files from the EFS
• Lost files in Compressed and Encrypted drives
• Forensic use, disgruntled ex-employees trying to cover tracks
• Tracking misuse of Company Computers in security situations

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Deleting a file by mistake is one of those stupid accidents you feel ashamed of explaining to others, like locking yourself out of home or having to pay extra because you forgot your season ticket.

In the case of deleted files however, don't worry because there's a solution. It's called Glary Undelete (yes, the same guys who created Glary Utilities) and it can help you recover any file you've accidentally deleted from your system, even if you have already emptied the Recycle bin.

That said, bear in mind that this kind of software apps must be used with caution, in the sense that they are not magical tools that will recover your files no matter how much time has passed since you delete them. There are other factors that influence the percentage of success in file recovery in addition to time, like drive usage and cluster movement. But if you use Glary Undelete right after the "accident" occurs, chances are you'll be able to recover your files without any problems – and without anybody noticing it.

The program scans the selected drive, among which you can include removable devices, and displays a list with all deleted files along with their recovery status. You can also use filters to refine this search or look for specific files, which comes in really handy as the list is sometimes too long.

Did you just erase a file by accident? Don't worry: Glary Undelete can help you recover it.

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USB Pen drive, Memory stick data recovery software is used to recover, restore and retrieve deleted formatted lost missing files folders. It is Read-only safe easy and Non-Destructive removable usb drive Data retrieval software utility.

Memory stick Data recovery Software recovers music pictures video digital files and folders image photo images data file and directory from your removable storage media lost due to accidental deletion, format, Virus attack, corruption, damaged file system etc. Software recover damaged corrupted logically bad crashed memory stick, usb jump drive, pen drive, dongle, external usb hard disk or other removable drive. Software also includes support for compact flash, memory card, multimedia card, SD card, removable microdrive, smart drive and media flash card memory etc.

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DataRecovery could be the key that lets you undelete files that have been deleted by accident. This application is able to analyze your hard-drive (supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS) and locate files that have been deleted, offering you the option to undelete them.

How is this possible? Simple: because Windows doesn't actually delete files without overwriting the part of the physical disk where the file was located. With this program, retrieving deleted files will not always be possible, but it may just be enough to get what you want.

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You'd be forgiven for thinking that Pandora Recovery is associated with the Pandora Genome music project but in actual fact, this utility has nothing to do with music.

It's quite simply, a file restoration utility that attempts to help you when you've accidentally deleted a file. Pandora Recovery can recover files permanently from the Recycle Bin simply by using the Shift + Delete keys bypassing. What's more, it can recover files that were deleted, according to the developers, up to a month after they were deleted. However, it's very unlikely you'll be able to recover something that's been deleted so long ago because a file "deterioration" (although the developers claim users have been able to recover files 5 years after deletion!).

This may all sound a bit far fetched although when you delete a file on a FAT32 or NTFS file system, its content is not totally erased from disk. Only the reference to file data in File Allocation Table or Master File Table is marked as deleted which means that sometimes you can make it visible again. The types of file you can recover are quite wide ranging including pictures, songs, movies and documents. Note though that you have a much greater chance of recovering data lost after the program has been installed because it scans your hard drive and builds an index of existing and deleted files and directories (folders). This gives you much greater control over which files to recover.

There are no guarantees that Pandora Recovery can help you restore accidentally deleted data but if there is any trace of it left, Pandora should be able to give it a damned good go.

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Scan your hard disk or any logical drive for inaccessible or deleted file. Stellar Phoenix File Recovery deeply scans selected drives and shows you the list of files it finds divided into category types. There are around 300 file types the program can recognise and attribute to the correspondening category, such as BMP, JPEG and WMA.

Double click on the device you want to scan and select the first option available: Standard scan. It takes a while to check over a whole hard disk and I suggest you of leaving it run until it has completely finished, otherwise you may have problems when trying to run it for a second time. You may receive the following message ‘critical data structures are badly corrupted for this drive’ which will block you from proceeding.

The result you get is a list of files divided by extension type. Unfortunately, there is no name, apart from sequential numbers, to help you remember what they were, and the preview function just gives you a succession hexadecimal figures. Nevertheless, you can easily restore these files with a few clicks of the mouse.

Analyze damaged hard disks or USB pen drives to retrieve your lost documents with Stellar Phoenix File Recovery. Let it scan completely your logical drive the first time you run it and select the categories of files you would like to have access to again.

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A good recovery tool provides a safety net in case you mistakenly delete important data or need to rummage through your PC for buried files. Recover My Files is an application that lets you thoroughly search your PC and recover any files you’ve accidentally deleted.

Despite a fairly rudimentary interface, Recover My Files packs some solid search and recovery tools. The program guides you through the file recovery process, allowing you to select drives and folders to scan and file types to look for. You can do a general lookup for any type of file, or you can select to look specifically for graphics, documents, archives, emails or databases in order to speed up the process. We suggest using the filter tool to refine dates and certain keywords to narrow your search.

From the two search tools, Quick Search and Complete File Search we recommend using the latter because it is much more thorough. While Quick Search will take you around 20 minutes, Complete File Search can take from 1 to 8 hours but at least you have a better chance of recovering lost files. We were impressed by the number of files that came up with both search methods, however were surprised that Recover My Files did not let us filter results at the end of our searches.

If you’ve partitioned your drive and reinstalled Windows but realize that you need to recover some files, the program gives you a choice between Fast Format Recover and Complete Format Recover. The latter is much more thorough and, following the developer’s recommendation, we decided to search only for precise file types, to avoid an extremely lengthy process.

Recover My Files is a thorough and fairly speedy search and recover application. We recommend installing it for whenever you partition your disk or to prevent losing any important files. It is however, helpful to know what you’re looking for and where you're looking for it, since the huge number of results can be daunting.

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Recovery for Works is a powerful data recovery software for corrupted Microsoft Works files (WPS, XLR, WDB). Recovery for Works components restore Works Wordprocessor documents, Works Spreadheets and Works Databases. Restores texts, original formatting, formulas. Supports Microsoft Works 5.x, 6.x and 7.x. Easy to use, no special user skills required.

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There's nothing worse in computer life than deleting important files by accident. Fortunately there are software tools that can help us recover from the loss.

One of them is Smart Data Recovery. This tool analyzes your hard drive and displays a list with all the documents that have been recently deleted and can be recovered with a somewhat high degree of success. Of course, there are many factors to be taken into account: not all files are suitable for recovery, and this depends on the amount of time that has passed by since you lost them and, above all, on the work being done in your hard drive during that period of time – meaning that the more you have been moving data around your drive, the less likely you are to recover lost files.

Smart Data Recovery is very easy to use. Simply click on the "Find" button and the program will analyze the system in search of deleted files. After that it will display a list where you can choose which files you want to restore and which ones you want to wipe out for good. This list includes extended information about each file, such as time, size and the degree of recoverability.

During our tests we were able to recover most of the data we had previously deleted. However, Smart Data Recovery didn't always find the files we were looking for, even if they had been deleted just a few seconds before to test the program.

With Smart Data Recovery you may have a last chance to bring back those accidentally deleted files.

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Data loss is one of the worst things that can happen to a PC owner. There's nothing worse than losing highly important data. This program from Seagate allows you to recover your files after they have been deleted, formatted, partitioned and many more.

It is compatible with Fat12, Fat16, Fat32 and NTFS, and while the trial version does not let you recover much, at least it helps you to know whether the files can be recovered as important or not. Navigating through folders is extremely quick and does not require any extra knowledge or excessive patience.

The program can even recover files deleted from your Recycle Bin even if the hard drive was accidentally formatted. If your files have been lost due to a virus, malicious hack attack or an operating system crash, it can also help recover them.

In summary, this is a powerful application that can at least give you some hope of rescuing deleted files.

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One of the worst moments you can live as a computer user is realizing you just deleted your most precious photos from the hard drive by accident. Don't worry, it has happened to all of us at some point.

In any case, before you start banging your head against your desk, try using UndeleteMyFiles and see if you can recover your important files. This tool analyzes your hard drive and finds any file that's suitable for recovering, even if you've already emptied the Recycle Bin.

Bear in mind though that this suitability depends on many factors, such as how much time has passed since you deleted the files and how much you've been using the computer, but as long there's a chance, there's hope.

UndeleteMyFiles is very easy to use and works not only with hard drives, but also with removable drives. Plus, it includes some file management extra features such as a file wiper, a disk imaging tool and an email recovery tool, among others.

With UndeleteMyFiles there's still a chance to recover those mistakenly deleted files, either from your hard drive or from any other removable media.

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We all know that computers are not infallible and that disaster can strike at any time. Programs such as Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery are designed to help limit the damage to your productivity.

Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery lets you recover data from NTFS, NTFS5, drives and also boasts support for recovering data from dynamic drives created on NT/2000/XP/2003 platforms. So if you've accidentally deleted files or folders you need, formatted a drive by mistake, have corrupted partition tables, or if you've managed to delete partitions, Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery will chase away your nightmares.

Using Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery is surprisingly straightforward thanks to its wizard-based user interface. You're given a series of options to either Recover your data, Recover data from a disk image, Clone a disk, or create a new disk image. With all of these Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery guides you through the recovery process step-by-step, so you can operate it without any in-depth knowledge of disk drives.

As you might have guessed from the name, unfortunately Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery only recovers NTFS data, so you'll need a separate application if you want to restore data from a FAT drive. Nevertheless, the inclusion of a File Tracer tool to hunt for specific missing files, makes Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use NTFS recovery apps around.

If you've suffered the agony of losing data then Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery is a wise choice to relieve your worries.

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There's nothing more heartbreaking than losing a large amount of data whether it be photos, music or videos.

Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery is a comprehensive tool for recovering any kind of digital media from a wide range of mediums including external drives, USB sticks and camera memory sticks. There's absolutely no guarantee Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery can recover lost data 100% of the time but it simply depends on how thoroughly deleted the data has been from your medium although it can even help in cases of formatted drives.

Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery simply requires you to browse to the medium that's damaged and quickly locates and restores deleted or lost photos, music and video files. Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery is particularly attuned to recovering data from memory cards particularly Compact Flash Cards (CF), Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards (SD), Multi-Media Cards (MMC), XD Picture Cards (XD) Micro Drives and Sony Memory Sticks (Duo, Pro).

Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery can now recover data to CD or DVD and allows you to preview certain files before they are recovered.

Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery is definitely worth trying if you've lost data especially on camera photos storage cards.

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FILERECOVERY® Professional can scan and find lost partitions, boot sectors and other file system components. FILERECOVERY® Professional can detect drives even if they are not visible in explorer. The full directory structure of the drive is displayed (Even on NTFS Drives where it is recoverable) and the built in search feature makes finding files much easier. The Recovery Wizard allows even novice users to successfully recover lost data.

FILERECOVERY® Professional allows data recovery from:

• Lost or deleted partitions
• Accidental or malicious formats
• Installations gone wrong
• Virus attacks- deletions
• Local or over a network
• Virtually any logical disk disaster

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Power Data Recovery is a risk-free and read only data recovery utility that helps you recover your data after accidental deletion, accidental format, repartition, virus attack, software malfunction, system crash. It is an easy to use data recovery utility that examines your inaccessible hard drives for damages and corruptions and recovers the data back. The supported file systems: FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS. It is easy to use and 4 steps to recover your lost data, no technical knowledge needed. It supports NTFS compressed and encrypted files. It supports Dynamic Volume: Simple Volume, Spanned Volume, Stripe Volume, Mirror Volume,Raid-5 Volume.

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