Top 5 Freeware For Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery Headaches

Barely imagine this: you have been doing work about that important paper for the past 2 months, and you are near to finish it. The deadline is in a couple of days. You save your documents, go for a tea and when you get back, your screen is blank or else,perhaps BSOD. Your computer rebooted itself automatically and is now stuck in the boot process with a message similar to this: “No boot device, please insert a bootable media”. You try to restart your computer a couple of times, but it does not restore your job. At this point, it is important do stay calm down, DONT’t PANIC!!! Try out these tools before crying out loud

Recuva V1.26

Recuva (pronounced "recover") helps recover files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer hard drive. 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.

Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier V4.2

Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier allows you to copy files from hard disk drives and CDs with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier 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 usable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.

Restoration V3.2.13

Restoration helps undelete files that were deleted accidentally from your hard disk drive by mistake. It even work with removable media such as CF or SF cards. You can scan for all files that could be recovered, or filter the results by entering a search term or extension. This program also has a secure wipe feature that makes it impossible to restore deleted files. As with most programs of this nature, Restoration requires administrative rights to function correctly.

Disk Digger V0.6.2

DiskDigger recovers files from any type of media that your computer can read. such as USB flash drives, memory cards and hard disk drives. The types of files supported include BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, DOC, PDF, MP3, AVI, WMV, OGG etc. DiskDigger is not a generic undelete utility. It works by scanning through each sector of the media and looking for "signatures" of the various file types. As such, it may be able to recover certain files that other generic undelete utilities are unable to.

PC Inspector File Recovery V4.0

PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS filesystems. It finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged. It recovers files with the original time and date stamp, even when a header entry is no longer available. PC Inspector File Recovery also supports the saving of recovered files on network drives.