Avira UnErase Personal

Avira UnErase Personal free uneraser helps computer users to prevent the danger of loosing forever important information, images, videos, and other files.

Avira UnErase Personal was built as a free data recovery instrument practical to recover deleted data on the PC hard-drive in situations like hard-drive accidents, files erased by mistake or as a result of a virus infection, a tool uninstaller that deleted necessary files or defective tool that erased files on your PC.

Applicability

• Restore accidentally, carelessly or intentionally deleted files on PCs. With Avira UnErase you can restore deleted files which were removed from the system’s Recycle Bin or which where directly deleted.
  
• You can also replicate files that were deleted by viruses, uninstallers or by DOS programs.
  
• Compressed and encrypted files are also supported.

Recovery probability

• All files detected for recovery are marked with a level of recovery probability. Usually, even files marked as "poor" can be easily recovered.

Sorting possibilities

• With Avira UnErase it is possible to sort detected files by various criteria: name, size, type, probability of recovery, date and time of creation and last access.

Taylor-made solution

• Avira UnErase is available to home users as a workstation application and to business users as a network version.

Main Features

• Versatile, simple, and fast data recovery solution in case of emergency.
  
• Extremely high success rate.
  
• Pre-installation not required.
  
• Smooth integration with Windows Explorer, intuitive operation.
  
• Supported file systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS4, NTFS5.
  
• Recovery of compressed files (NTFS, NTFS5).
  
• Recovery of encrypted files (NTFS5).
  
• Recovery of streams (NTFS, NTFS5).
  
• Recovery of more than one file with the same name.
  
• Recovery of local files.

Website: http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/10/avira_unerase_personal.html

Retrieve Accidentally Deleted Files with Undelete Plus

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. Undelete Plus works under Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards.

Undelete Plus allows the following tasks to be performed:

- Recovery of deleted files from NTFS/NTFS5, FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 volumes.
- Restoring deleted files on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2003, and Windows Vista.

Undelete Plus is completely FREE Software. It contains absolutely NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE, NO REGISTRATION, NO POPUPS, NO MALWARE or other unwanted software (it is specified on developers’ website that it is a limited-time offer, so act fast on getting it!)

Important Information: The following three things are important for a successful restoration:

(1) The more recent your last defrag was the better your chance of recovering the deleted file so defrag often (at least once a week). DO NOT defrag the disk after you decide to try and retrieve an erased file.

(2) Every time that your computer writes to disk the chances increase that your deleted file will be overwritten. The sooner you make a restoration attempt the more likely you will be successful.

(3) The smaller the size of the file - the better your chance of success to restore it.

When Undelete Plus saves a restored file it reads it’s content and then writes it to a new file with the same name. It is recommended that you save the files that you are recovering to another disk because of the risk of overwriting other files that you may be trying to recover with the newly recovered one that you are saving. It would be best not to save the retrieved files back to the same hard drive until after completing all attempts to retrieve any lost files. This will minimize the chance of corrupting any remaining lost files.

Drawback:

Undelete-Plus will recognize a limited number of CD file formats. If you get a message stating "Drive Error" or drive is not listed then it will not work. You need to search the Internet for CD recovery software.

Versions:

There are two versions can be downloaded from the developers website: full version with installer and help, and portable version to be run with no installation from external media as a single executable file. While authors recommend the full version, I would still stick with no-install version advantages. Both versions are free for private (non-commercial) use.

I keep a copy of Undelete Plus as part of my emergency files recovery tool kit, and highly recommend it to you as well.

Homepage : http://www.undelete-plus.com/

Recuva File Recovery Utility

Recuva is one of the most popular on the market freeware portable undelete utilities. It was developed by Piriform LTD, London-based private software development company, famous also by the most popular utilities as CCleaner and Defraggler.

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Main Features:

• Simple to use interface - just click ’Scan’ and choose the files you want to recover
• Easy to use filter for results based on file name/type
• Simple Windows like interface with List and Tree view
• Can be run from a USB thumb drive
• Restores all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything.
• Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems
• Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.)
• Restores files from external ZIP drives , Firewire and USB Hard drives
• It’s fast, tiny and takes seconds to run!

Developers Website: http://www.recuva.com/