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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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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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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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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It has happened to us all. We've lost or deleted a file at some stage that was really important. Of course, nowadays, with so many external backup options there is less chance it's going to happen but if it does, there is still hope. R-Studio Data Recovery, although sounding like a music program, actually helps you recover lost or accidentally deleted files. It's not a sure-fire solution but it can help depending on the type of file you've deleted.

When R-Studio Demo version has found a lost file larger than 64KB you may simply double click the file to preview it. However, in this demo version, if you want to open it you'll need to register the software to obtain the R-Studio registration key. However, if you have enough disk space on any additional hard drive or on an alternative media the developers recommend that you create an image of the recognized partition where the lost files were found, because Windows OS constantly writes some information on disks and there is a risk that the sectors where the deleted files reside may be overwritten. According to them, "If that happens, the files still may be found, but may contain incorrect data or cannot be found at all." They assure however that the created image can be processed the same way as the original partition. The program supports a wide range of drives including dynamic disk and RAID drives. It's also able to recover encrypted and compressed files so if your lost file was zipped-up, there's still a chance you can recover it. For those who know how to edit MFT file records and MBR/LDM structures, they can be viewed and edited in the program's accompanying disk hex editor.

The program makers do issue one serious word of warning however - never try to write the image file or recovered deleted files to the same disk where the files reside or you may lose the data on your disk.

R-Studio can't guarantee to rescue all files but it's definitely worth a shot if the worst has happened.

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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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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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Backing up your data with images has many advantages over straightforward file-to-foile backups.

For one they take up less space and two, they're often much easier to restore than conventional backups. A drive image Disk image file basically contains an exact copy of a hard drive, partition or logical disk and can be created on the fly. You can then restore these images at any time on a removal disk or to replace your corrupted, lost or damaged version. R-Drive Image does this fairly simply by creating a special bootable diskette to restore partitions. To restore only certain files, you only have to connect the image as a virtual disk (via a USB connection for example) and copy those files to their new location. For anyone that doesn't like Norton's drive image utility, this is a much easier to use and cheaper package. It's ideal for those that have suffered a major data loss Using R-Drive Image, you can completely and rapidly restore your system after heavy data loss caused by an operating system crash, virus attack or hardware failure. In addition, it's ideal for system administrators that need to setup large numbers of computers in one go.

A very powerful tool for administrators and those that want to be sure they don't waste valuable time if their operating system crashes.

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RegistryRecovery is a comprehensive data recovery software for damaged Microsoft Windows registry files. Console application: makes it easy to use RegistryRecovery with a rescue diskette on an operating system that cannot start due to registry errors. Is able to restore separate registry files.

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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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When you delete files from your PC, you don't really wipe them away forever. The system simply marks that space as reusable, which means that erased files can be actually be recovered with apps like PC Tools File Recover.

This program features three different modes (Quick, Deep and Physical) to scan your computer in search of previously erased files. I specially liked the possibility to filter this scan, either by file type, file size or even specifying letters or words that must be found in the file's name.

Of course, the most thorough the scanning method you choose, the longer it will take to be completed. On the upside, a Deep scan shows far more results than the Quick one and the Physical scan can be useful in case of corrupt hard drives.

However, I was disappointed to see that this trial version doesn't allow you to recover any files. It scans your PC and displays the list of all erased files, but if you want to recover any of them you'll need to register the program. I understand this is a shareware version, but I think users would like to have some kind of guarantee that they'll be able to recover their data. And maybe a good way to do so would be to have a fully functional version for a limited period of time, or at least allow users to recover a few files before registering the program.

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Digital MediaRescue Professional recovers lost data from a whole host of multimedia devices - from digital cameras, audio recorders, MP3 & WMA players to PDAs and mobile phones. The program supports Hard Drives, CompactFlash cards (type I/II), IBM Microdrives, SmartMedia cards, MultiMedia cards (MMCs), Secure Digital (SD) cards, Memory Sticks and any other storage devices, with the addition of wide-range file format support: JPEG, AVI, MOV, MP3, WMA, WAV, etc.

Modern Digital Still Cameras and other digital devices allow files to be erased and the space on the media reused. So sometimes your information gets erased or crippled, either by physical damage to the medium (e.g. flash card crash), or because someone clicked the wrong button on your recorder. Through momentary carelessness, valuable data can be lost in an instant.

The media can also be bulk-erased or formatted, removing everything from the storage media. Of course you don't want to lose your valuable files such as important photos or favourite audio and video recordings. And there it is, our MediaRescue Pro is here to easily, quickly and absolutely reliably reconstruct the missing multimedia files.

Hope is at hand with Digital MediaRescue Professional for your lost digital media.

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Have you ever lost or accidentaly deleted files on your iPod? Well recover my iPod is designed for people just like you that need to recover deleted or lost iPod files. Simple to use, it can quickly recover your valuable lost iPod files.

With Recover My iPod you can recover music, video and photos including file types .m4a, .mp3, .mov, quicktime and jpeg. The program supports all iPods including: iPod, shuffle, iPod Mini, Nano and other iPod devices.

You can even recover from the dreaded iPod "Drive Not Formatted" message or when your iPod is not recognized by your computer.

The developers claim that Recover My iPod is risk free and will NOT change the contents of the iPod drive being searched.

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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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Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while holding down the Shift key by mistake. Conversely, this program has another function that makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted files. You can use it after deletion of confidential documents, embarrassing files and so on.

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RecoverSoft Data Rescue PC is the best data recovery utility on the market for recovering files from a problem hard drive. Other utilities can cause more damage to your hard drive and files by trying to "fix" the problem, instead of focusing on recovering your files. Do not use a repair utility until you've safely recovered your important files and stored them in a safe location. RecoverSoft Data Rescue PC should be your first option to recover your important data, before you try any risky “repair” utility.

RecoverSoft Data Rescue PC is revolutionary in both ease-of-use and power. Simply insert the CD and reboot your computer. Data Rescue PC will automatically access your drive then guide you through the file recovery process with simple step-by-step directions. With a friendly graphical user interface, you select the files you wish to recover, then they are stored for you on your external USB, FireWire, or secondary internal hard drive.

Because Data Rescue PC comes on a bootable CD, the time-consumming install process found in other utilities simply doesn't exist - you are up and running fast Since RecoverSoft Data Rescue PC's CD is equipped with its own Operating System, tuned especially for data recovery, your hard drive isn't needed for the boot process - this means that Data Rescue PC can help you even in the most serious emergencies

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Although NT 4.0 provides a Recycle Bin, it is of very limited use. Only files deleted from the Explorer GUI end up being placed there. Any files zapped from a command window or from within a program are lost forever. Fundelete is a utility that replaces NT 4.0's Recycle Bin to provide full protection of files deleted from anywhere. Fundelete includes the same configurability as Recycle Bin's Properties dialog, including which drives should have protection enabled, and how large the Fundelete Bin should be allowed to grow. Fundelete also provides a filtering dialog that allows you to prevent files of specific extensions not to be sent to the Bin, such as editor backup files, and temporary files. You can also specify directories that will be excluded from protection.

Note that Fundelete does not enable you to recover files that were deleted before Fundelete was installed. To recover valuable files that may have already been deleted, try FileRestore from Winternals Software.

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PHOTORECOVERY® was developed as an easy to use application that was designed to recover images, movies, and sound files from all types of Digital Media. It was designed to be compatible with Memory Sticks, SmartMedia, CompactFlash I & II, Micro Drives, SD/XD Cards, Multimedia Chips, Floppy Disks and most other forms of Digital Film. Simply insert your Digital Film into the reader, and run PHOTORECOVERY® on the media, and then save the pictures off to another location. There was no easier way to salvage those once in a lifetime moments you thought were lost forever!

NOW PHOTORECOVERY® has been further developed to recover many more file types from digital media used in more than just digital cameras! PHOTORECOVERY® now recovers documents, spreadsheets, text files, and many more! PHOTORECOVERY® also will allow you to create a backup image of your card, and also allow recovery from your backup image as well as other card image formats!

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GetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MTF or root directory are lost or damaged, data is lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a system crash, files were lost due to a software failure, files were accidentally deleted.

Advanced algorithms will make sure that all directories and sub directories are put together as they were, and that long file names are reconstructed correctly. GetDataBack is read-only, meaning the program will never attempt to write to the drive you are about to recover.

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