Data Recovery: a collection of software

This is a list of some Data Recovery software

Active@ Undelete

http://www.active-undelete.com/


Active@ Partition Recovery

http://www.partition-recovery.com/


Discovery Recovery - Drive Discovery

http://www.notsosoftware.com/


Easy Undelete

http://www.easy-undelete.com/


COMPUTOOLZ Data Recovery

http://www.computoolz.com/


File Recover

http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/


File Scavenger

http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm


File Recovery Angel

http://www.filerecoveryangel.com/


File Rescue Plus

http://www.filerescueplus.com/


Final Recovery

http://www.finalrecovery.com/


FinalData

http://www.finaldata.com/


GetData

http://www.getdata.com/


GetDataBack

http://www.runtime.org/


Handy Recovery

http://www.handyrecovery.com/


Max Data Recovery

http://www.softeza.com/datarecovery/


O&O (Data Recovery Section)

http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/datarecovery/


Object Rescue

http://www.objectrescue.com/


Ontrack Data Recovery

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/


PC Inspector File Recovery

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file...htm?language=1


ProSoft

http://www.prosofteng.com/


RecoverSoft

http://www.recoversoft.com/


R-Studio

www.r-tt.com


Search and Recover

http://www.iolo.com/sr/5/


Smart Undelete

http://www.recoverdeletedfilestool.com/


Spin Rite

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm


Stellar Phoenix

http://www.stellarinfo.com/


SUPERFileRecover

http://www.superfilerecover.com/

Hacking Hard Drives For Data Recovery

This is a video-tutorial about Data Recovery:

author: Scott Moulton
conference: ToorCoon
url: http://video.google.it/videoplay?docid=-396122032591841175

Data Recovery: Freeware software

source: http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/datarecovery.shtml

• NTFS Undelete
  NTFS Undelete is a Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista program that allows you to locate and undelete files that you have accidentally deleted from an NTFS file system (which is the format of your hard disk for modern Windows systems).
  
  
• PCInspector File Recovery
  PCInspector File Recovery is able to find and unerase deleted partitions on your hard disk even if the boot sector or file allocation table (FAT) has been deleted or damaged. It can also recover files that have been deleted; the files are recovered with the original date and time stamps. You can also recover the unerased files to a network drive. It has specially written routines to recover deleted a variety of file formats including document files from popular programs, like Word's DOC and RTF files, Excel's XLS, database files (DBF), Adobe Reader's PDF files, as well as multimedia files like MP3, WAV, MID, AVI (video file), MOV (video file), picture files (BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF), archive files (ZIP, ARJ, TAR, LZH), executable files (EXE), help files (HLP), web pages (HTML, HTM), etc, so that even if the headers of these files are missing, the program is able to reconstruct them. This is a Windows program.
  
  
• TestDisk and PhotoRec
  TestDisk is designed to recover lost partitions and make non-bootable disks bootable again. PhotoRec is a data recovery software that recovers lost files such as videos, documents and archives from your hard disks and CDROM, as well as pictures from your digital camera memory (the photo recovery function, as its name implies). PhotoRec ignores the file systems it works on, and is thus able to recover from a variety of file systems including NTFS, FAT, ext2/ext3 and HFS+. It specially recognizes certain file formats like ZIP, Office files, PDF, HTML, JPEG and other graphic file formats. Its photo recovery function is able to retrieve lost or deleted files from hard disks, CDROMs, Compact Flash memory (CF cards), Memory Sticks, SecureDigital cards (SD cards), SmartMedia, Microdrives, MMC, USB memory drives, etc. The program works under a variety of operating systems, including Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, DOS, Linux, Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.
  
  
• ISOBuster
  ISOBuster is a CD and DVD data recovery tool that allows you to recover from media failure by extracting your data / files / video / audio / photos / pictures / documents (etc) from a badly damaged or scratched CD or DVD. Unlike Windows, which gives up trying to read a scratched or damaged DVD/CD after a while, this optical media data recovery tool tries repeatedly to access the data. It is also able to access a variety of file systems and multiple sessions. Use of the basic features of this utility is free.
  
  
• Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery
  Recuva is a freeware Windows tool that you can use to restore files that you have deleted from your computer, or emptied from your Recycle Bin. It can also recover files deleted from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. The software works in Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.
  
  
• DATA Unerase Personal Edition
  This unerase utility may be used to recover deleted files found on drives visible to Windows. It can recover files from FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS hard disk, memory sticks, USB flash drives, memory cards, removal media, etc. It works under Windows ME, NT, 2000, XP and 2003. This program is for non-commercial use only. Note that it is NOT able to recover any type of graphic image or picture.
  
  
• SoftPerfect File Recovery
  SoftPerfect File Recovery can restore deleted files from NTFS, NTFS5, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12 disks, floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It also supports compressed and encrypted volumes. No installation is required. The program works under Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and XP.
  
  
• Undelete Plus
  Undelete Plus allows you to retrieve accidentally deleted files from your hard disk (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5), network drive, and floppy disk. It is also able to perform a recovery of deleted images from your CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards. It runs under Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
  
  
• FreeUndelete
  FreeUndelete recovers accidentally deleted files from your hard disk, whether your hard disk has a NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file system. This is a Windows program.
  
  
• Avira Unerase Personal
  Avira Unerase Personal recovers deleted files or data from your hard drive. It is for personal, non-commercial use only. This is a Windows program.
  
  
• RoadKil's Undelete and Unstoppable Copier
  RoadKil's Undelete is a Windows program that undeletes files from FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems. The Unstoppable Copier attempts to recover files from damaged disks (eg disks with bad sectors or scratches). It does this by copying available pieces of the file and assemble them.

Ultimate Recovery CD 2008 - 52 in 1

http://www.kenenter.info/2008/12/ultimate-recovery-cd-2008-52in1-36147.html

Programs included:
Active partition recovery 5
Active Password Changer Pro
Advanced EFS Recovery
Anti-Crash 3.6.1
Advanced Cab Repair Pro
CD Data Rescue 2.5
Data Recovery Wizard Pro 3.34
File Scavenger 3.0.1
HDD Regenerator 1.51
Actice Disk Wiper Pro
Active Rescue Live
Advanced RAR Repair retail
Advanced Zip Repair 1.8.1
Advanced PDF Repair 1.0
Advanced Photoshopp Repair
Active Undelete 5.5
2 Rescue BootDisk Makes
Partition Table Doctor 3.5
O&O Disk Recovery 4.0.1
O&O Disk Recovery 4.1 Vista
PC Inspector File recovery
Raise Data Recovery For NTFS
Pen Drive Data Recovery
Recover Lost Data 3
R-Studio 3.6
R-Studio Emergency
R-Studio RS Agent
Disk Explorer For NTFS
GetDataBack For Fat
GetDataBack For NTFS
SpinRite 6.0 Release 1
SpinRite Iso maker
Steller phoenix Fat & NTFS

Live Programs:
Pen Drive data Doctor
TestDisk 6 Live
Portable Total Commander 7.01
Hard Disk Sentinel Live
Portable Spinrite 6.0
Portable O&O UnErase 4.1
Portable MediaRecovery
AdvancedRAR Password Recover 1.53
GetDataBack NTFS Live
PhotoRecovery 6.6
Data Recovery Wizard Pro
Portable Dead Disk Doctor
PortableFinal Recovery
Portable HDDlife Pro
Portable All Media Fixer Pro
Portable R-Studio 3.5
O&O Disk Recovery 4.1 Tech
Easy Photo Recovery Live

Combined Windows PE Recovery CD with windows based Autorun live and installable programs to rescue data - crack archive passwords and get back the precious data that you need.

Windows PE (the operating system on the CD)

O&O RescueBox 4
comes delivered with a modified and fully functional version of the operating system Windows PE. Windows PE allows the user full access to NTFS.
The products comprising the O&O RescueBox 4 can be activated with the familiar look & feel of Windows using the graphic user interface. Using Windows PE enables you to execute a data recovery session when no other operating system is installed or running.

NEW: Windows Vista Compatible
NEW: 64 Bit support

Immediately bootable from CD
Supports every Windows operating system
Supports every Windows file system
Requires no running operating system
Data recovery from all Windows storage media
Recovery of data deleted by malfunctioning software
Saves data on internal and external storage media

The new O&O RescueBox 4 is THE data recovery bundle for every operation on every system.
It is immediately bootable from CD and contains its own independent operating system. With the help of O&O DiskRecovery 4, O&O Format- Recovery 4 and O&O UnErase 4, the O&O RescueBox 4 can recover fi les from nearly every type of data storage media.
Using the on screen assistant, recovery is made easy and fi les you thought were lost can quickly be at your disposal again.

O&O DiskRecovery 4
can still help recover data even when things seem hopeless.
By means of the exclusive O&O DeepScan technology, over 300 fi le types can be recognized and recovered, even those most severely damaged.
You can integrate unsupported fi le types and also combine different scanning methods.

O&O FormatRecovery
enables the recovery of deleted or formatted partitions or hard disks to their pre-deletion form.
File and directory structures are likewise restored. O&O FormatRecovery 4 takes the selected directory structure, file name and file information and stores it on another storage media, enabling a straight forward search to be carried out based on the directory and fi le names.

O&O UnErase 4
Whether your files were deleted through a DOS prompt or from inside Windows Explorer, with or without their being sent to the recycle bin, O&O UnErase 4 will recover the deleted files and restore all intact data. A simple and intuitive user interface similar to that of Windows Explorer tops off the experience.

The Data Recovery Assistant
The O&O RescueBox 4 Data Recovery Assistant helps the user not only identify the type of data loss sustained but also to select the appropriate product to recover it.
Once the interactive dialogue with the Assistant is complete, the relevant product from the O&O RescueBox 4 is started to provide the best solution to the problem at hand.

Supported storage media
O&O RescueBox 4 can recover data from all Windows supported data storage media.
This includes, amongst others, internal und external hard disks (IDE, SATA, SCSI etc.),
Digital cameras, MP3 Players, USB and Memory Sticks, Memory Cards, CDs, DVDs und Diskettes. The only condition for a data recovery is that the data storage medium is compatible with Windows, but you are not required to carry out a compatibility check in this regard.
The rescued data can then be saved on any Windows supported storage medium (provided it is not the medium from where the data was just recovered!). Windows PE (the operating system on the CD) O&O RescueBox 4 comes delivered with a modifi ed and fully functional version of the operating system Windows PE. Windows PE allows the user full access to NTFS.
The products comprising the O&O RescueBox 4 can be activated with the familiar look & feel of Windows using the graphic user interface. Using Windows PE enables you to execute a data recovery session when no other operating system is installed.