Tag: FILE RECOVERY

We've gone through a ton of "simple" file recovery apps at Download Squad, and not all of them perform as advertised. Some take a painfully long time to scan only to report few - if any - recoverable files, dashing our hopes of retrieving that funny lolcat we deleted by accident. Undelete Plus, however, is a champion at what it does. It quickly completes its scan for potential targets, displays ...

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Imagine you just finished writing an important document with your favorite word processor. You hit save, and turn in for the night, satisfied that everything is fine. Unbeknownst to you, something happens as you slumber. Maybe it's a wayward nephew, maybe it's your cat, but at some point, something or someone deleted your precious file. What do you do? Rest easy, friend, and take a look at this. ...

The nightmare scenario: your computer won't boot. The drive seems healthy otherwise; you can access it when booting from another drive, but for some reason your drive absolutely refuses to boot. Take heart, it's possible that it can be fixed by TestDisk, a very powerful cross-platform partition recovery tool. TestDisk was created to try to help users recover from seemingly unrecoverable ...

A hard-drive meltdown is every computer user's worst nightmare. Data recovery services charge an arm and a leg, and while your data is valuable to you, most people have a limit as to what they can pay for these services. It's hard to gamble that much money when there is no guarantee that the data can actually be recovered. While there's no better prevention than regular backups, if you find ...