PC/laptop life saver series: File recovery 3

Here is the part 3 of File recovery for PC/laptop life saver series:
You deleted a file and you are not sending it to recycle bin, but suddenly you realize you still need to file, ouch! What shall you do? Luckily there are nice people out there that write some awesome and free software for us to use. We can use them to recover the lost file and you are safe!

There is not preference which one is better than other, it all depend on your need. So here is third one I want to introduce to you:

Photorec:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Here what the author claim:
Photorec ignores the file system, this way it works even if the file system is severely damaged. It can recover lost files at least from FAT, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3 filesystem and HFS+. PhotoRec works with hard disks, CD-ROMs, memory cards (Compact Flash, Memory Stick, SecureDigital/SD, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, etc.), USB memory drives, DD raw image, EnCase E01 image, etc.

Best of all, it is FREE!

One drawback of Photorec compare to the rest is the interface is in DOS, which is not so user friendly. But this is the piece of recovery software that I use the most. :)

Note from Photorec (but I am sure this is for all recovery file program): Important: As soon as a pic or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pics or files to that memory device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data. This means that while using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.


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PC/laptop life saver series: File recovery 2

Here is the part 2 of File recovery for PC/laptop life saver series:
You deleted a file and you are not sending it to recycle bin, but suddenly you realize you still need to file, ouch! What shall you do? Luckily there are nice people out there that write some awesome and free software for us to use. We can use them to recover the lost file and you are safe!

There is not preference which one is better than other, it all depend on your need. So here is second one I want to introduce to you:

Restoration: File Recovery Freeware by Brian Kato
http://www.aumha.org/a/recover.php
The advantages of this software is:
"it works not only on Windows 9x versions, but also on Windows NT, 2000, and XP — even in NTFS!"

Best of all, it is FREE!


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PC/laptop life saver series: File recovery 1

You deleted a file and you are not sending it to recycle bin, but suddenly you realize you still need to file, ouch! What shall you do? Luckily there are nice people out there that write some awesome and free software for us to use. We can use them to recover the lost file and you are safe!

There is not preference which one is better than other, it all depend on your need. So here is first one I want to introduce to you:

PC Inspector
http://www.pcinspector.de/
The author of this software claim that:

• Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged
• Recovers files with the original time and date stamp
• Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives
• Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available. Competition products cannot recover such files. The "Special Recovery Function" supports the following disk formats:
  ARJ | AVI | BMP | CDR | DOC | DXF | DBF | XLS | EXE
  GIF | HLP | HTML | HTM | JPG | LZH | MID | MOV | MP3
  PDF | PNG | RTF | TAR | TIF | WAV | ZIP
  

Best of all, it is FREE!



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