There are many tools on the market that advertise an ability to recover accidentally deleted files. But do they stand behind what they offer?
A common approach to deleted file recovery is a comprehensive scan of a file system on your hard disk. A data recovery tool displays a number of files, usually thousands of them, in a window, and offers you the option of recovering one or more of them. But what if there are several versions of a file, all with the same name? This is a very common situation if you work with a document and save it periodically. The bad news is that once you save a new copy of a document, the old one may or may not get overwritten in whole or in part, depending on free disk space and the size of the document. All of the files will have the same name in the file list window of typical data recovery programs. If you recover the wrong copy, you will get a completely unusable file that contains no useful information, just digital garbage. What's worse, once you recover a wrong file, you may not be able to recover all other versions, including the correct one!
MultiStage Recovery is much smarter than that. This file recovery tool contains a specially developed smart filter that analyses each and every deleted file for the possibility of its full and correct recovery. MultiStage Recovery scans your hard drive, and only lists those deleted documents that can be successfully recovered. This removes visual clutter and greatly increases your chances to get back the correct latest version of your document.
Did you format a hard drive accidentally, or lose all information because of an unsuccessful file system conversion or an upgrade to NTFS? MultiStage Recovery can salvage files from inaccessible and formatted partitions even in the most difficult cases such as when you re-formatted a FAT drive with NTFS, or vice versa. Advanced NTFS Scan and Advanced FAT Scan will directly access, scan and analyze a partition and look for erased file systems.
Raxso Drive Magic 5.0
Sanitize, protect and secure any magnetic drive, USB drive and more. The process of sanitizing a drive means overwriting each unused track several times to erase the data that was previously there. This applies to the free drive space only - Drive...
Price: USD $29.95;
File Size: 473 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
Raxso Columbus 5.0
Superior in nature, Columbus is a finely tuned search engine for the PC! Download the #1 Rated PC Search Engine and take back control of your computer. Get a grip on your busy schedule and turn your computer into a lean, mean searching machine...
Price: USD $29.95;
File Size: 702 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
FileSee 6.30
FileSee is a powerful All-In-One file viewer. It is a tool that helps you to view files quickly. FileSee is a combination of a file manager, a text file viewer, an image viewer, a pdf viewer, a flash player, a video player, a mp3 player, a midi...
Price: USD $29.95;
File Size: 5033 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
MagicISO 5.0.0.166
MagicISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file editor, CD burner, and CD/DVD backup tool. It can directly create, edit, extract and burner ISO files, It also can convert almost all CD/DVD image formats to ISO/BIN/CUE. With MagicISO, you can handle DVD...
Price: USD $29.95;
File Size: 2300 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
AnyReader 2.6
AnyReader: read from scratched CD/DVDs, unreliable LAN (Wi-Fi), damaged floppy/flash disks, etc.
Effectively copy corrupt data from any type of disks or faulty connections when standard copy methods fail. AnyReader supports resumed downloads...
Price: USD $29.95, EUR 22.95;
File Size: 2558 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
UltraISO Media Edition 7.6.5.1225
UltraISO is a powerful and easy-to-use utility that can extract, create, edit, convert, and burn CD/DVD image files. It can directly edit ISO files, make images from CD/DVD-ROMs, or build new one from files and folders on your computer. You have...
Price: USD $29.95;
File Size: 2692 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Acronis Partition Expert 2005
Acronis Partition Expert is the only disk partitioning software that allows you to automatically or manually resize, copy and move partitions without losing data. Now Acronis Partition Expert is named Acronis Disk Director Suite. It also lets you...
Price: USD $49.99;
File Size: 35313 KB;
Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
HDD Regenerator 1.51
Hard disk drive is an integral part of every computer. It stores all your information. One of the most prevalent defects of hard drives is bad sectors on the disk surface. Bad sectors are a part of the disk surface which contains not readable, but...
Price: USD $59.95;
File Size: 2178 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
Free Disk Wipe 2.9.1
Free Disk Wipe data cleanup and file erase tool, that allow you to completely wipe/ remove / delete / erase a selected files,on a disk (floppy disks, hard disks,logical drives, etc).
Any Data Recovery Software or Tool can't restore file, if file...
Price: USD $0.00;
File Size: 235 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
CD Data Rescue 2.5
CD Data Rescue is a effective data recovery software that recovers lost,unreadable and deleted files from damaged,scratched or defective CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW discs,supporting also Mount Rainier/MRW discs even in not compilant drives. With this...
Price: USD $19.95;
File Size: 1960 KB;
Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP