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What is free data recovery software?
Never install free data recovery software on the drive that you are attempting to recover data from.
Always install and run free data recovery software from a separate drive, such as an external hard disk or flash drive.
Free Data Recovery Software
PC Inspector File Recovery
PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
- 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 file contents, even when the file header is no longer available.
PC Inspector Smart Recovery
PC Inspector Smart Recovery is a data recovery program for Flash Card, Smart Media, Sony Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card or any other data carrier for digital cameras.
If you have unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files on your data carrier or have pulled it out during a write operation, no matter - PC Inspector Smart Recovery can easily, quickly and absolutely reliably reconstruct the lost data.
PC Inspector Smart Recovery runs on Windows 95/98, ME, NT 4.0, XP and Windows 2000 systems.
FreeUndelete
FreeUndelete is a freeware data recovery program for deleted files.
In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS file system (used by default in Windows XP, 2000 and NT) FreeUndelete is the utility to help.
A deleted file is essentially an area on disk designated as free and ready to accept data (such as contents of some other file). Luckily, unless the area has already been overwritten, it still holds the contents of the deleted file. Due to this fact it is possible to undelete files.
It is our pleasure to emphasize that FreeUndelete is free. There is no charge, direct or hidden, to download and use a fully functional copy of the program. The program does not install any spyware or adware along with it. It does not populate user's desktop with pop-up ads or forcefully subscribe user to mailing lists.
Unstoppable Copier
Unstoppable Copier recovers files from disks with physical damage. The program allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. This software will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.
Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery
Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery is a freeware data recovery tool, specifically designed to work with digital images. It allows you to recover digital photos accidentally deleted from digital camera memory.
There exists a vast variety of digital camera and associated media types on the market, so it is virtually impossible to test the program with each and every hardware combination. Generally, program should work with any media type (e.g. Compact Flash, Memory Stick, SmartMedia and so on) accessible by means of operating system. You need the use your camera or the appropriate card reader you normally use to transfer images from camera to PC.
Disk Investigator
Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data.
Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files.
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