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"How to Recover Deleted Files - For Free"

By Bob Rankin: "So you lost an important file. Ouch. If you simply deleted the wrong file, you can usually get it back by opening the Recycle Bin and restoring it. But if that doesn't do the trick, try one of these free tools to do the heavy lifting. Read on and you'll find a crop of Windows-based tools to recover deleted files.

 

Recover Files 2.1 is a free professional software tool that allows you to recover data removed from your hard drive, recycle bin, portable devices or even a compact flash drive...

Piriform's Recuva (pronounced like "recover" with a Brooklyn accent) will help you to find files and images on your computer that were deleted by human error, including those deleted from your digital camera memory card or MP3 player...

One of the most popular free file recovery tools for Windows is Restoration. This program will find just about everything you've ever deleted from your PC, including files deleted from the DOS prompt...

FreeUndelete has no charge for personal usage, although they charge for businesses...

There are also free tools for other PC catastrophes. Advanced PSD Repair (APSR) is handy for recovering Photoshop PSD and PDD files and works with all versions.

And if you work with external media, Recovery Toolbox for CD Free can recover data from damaged or corrupted CD, DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. The same company also makes a variety of other data recovery tools, including Recovery Toolbox for Outlook, Outlook Express, Word, Excel, Zip and other applications to recover damaged or deleted data. They're not free, but you can get a free trial to see if it'll do the job.

Do it Now...

Obviously, all of these tools are most useful if you install before you lose the data, because downloading a file can possibly overwrite the very file(s) you want to recover. I recommend that you check out a few and download them, so you'll be ready in case you do need to recover lost files."

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Source: The Internet Tourbus. Volume 14, Number 17. 12 May 2009. Copyright 1995-2009, Rankin & Crispen - All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://www.TOURBUS.com>. 

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).