Free data recovery softwares for your PC

t see, you didn't backup your data and you lost some important files! Very good... As long as your computer hardware was not physically damaged, there is still chances that you can to recover your lost files with free or very expensive data recovery software. Free data recovery software is a bit harder to get but I've found a few good ones and also the expensive ones.

Two things to remember with data recovery:

First : If your data is very important and critical so you should not play with freeware. There are several good data recovery services out there.

Second : If you want to use the freeware whatever data recovery tool you want to try please remember to use the freeware that DOES NOT NEED INSTALLATION. That's right, the software should run appropriate off floppy, flash or CD. Otherwise, installation of the recovery software will just overwrite your data.

Some helpfull tips :

1. If your drive is reports a CRC read IO error, DO NOT PROCEED. This indicates a hardware failure.

2. As soon as you find your data has been deleted, stop using the computer! The less activity the better way to avoid disk-swap activity.

3. Find and download data recovery software on addition computer.

4. Save the data recovery software to a flash drive and run it from there.

5. Save the extracted data back onto the flash drive for added safety.

Some of the program :

NTFS Reader

NTFS Boot Disk provides access to your NTFS drives in an MS-DOS environment (long filenames are supported). NTFS Reader for DOS will allow you to browse and recover all kinds of deleted files.

http://www.ntfs.com/ or http://tinyurl.com/mglscu

File Recovery

PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program with support for FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. It recovers files with the original time and date stamp, and can optionally restore them to a network drive and can recover many files, even when a header entry is no longer available. On FAT systems, the programs finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged. PC Inspector File Recovery offers an easy to use interface that will scan your drive and automatically make files that can be recovered available from a "Deleted" folder in an Explorer Style navigation tree.

http://www.pcinspector.de/file _recovery/welcome.htm or http://tinyurl.com/kkvpej

Restoration

Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows. Upon start, you can scan for all files that may be recovered and also limit the results by entering a search term or extension.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Rest oration_d4474.html or http://tinyurl.com/m4duhb