Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Free Tools to Recover Your Files And Bring Back to Life Your Deleted Or Formatted Files

Losing your files in a very unfortunate event like missed deletion or power outage can be irritating. This might happen to anyone with large file library to manage. Sorting out thousands of files manually and deleting those that we consider as unnecessary also add more problems to the matter. Lost files incidence is even more common to portable devices and removable storage with various storage media like SD card, M2, or MMC. Limited capacity in one hand but demanding storage necessity in the other can make instant access to empty your portable device storage extremely problematic although this is formerly designed to help you.

More frequently than not, the effort to bring back those files to life tends to be frustrating because Windows does not provide you with adequate tools to help you out. But actually, don't worry, it is very possible you can get back your lost file again. The recovery chance can be quite good if you have not do much writing/copying activity in the drive you want to recover. Without going too technical, this is possible because the way all the data are removed from storage they reside make it possible to recover it back easily. Basically when you command a deletion or formatting operation, the system did not actually remove the file from the disk. What it does, it only marks the area where the file resides as empty. Thus, the file itself is still there physically but it is just not "registered" to the system anymore. This is fundamentally intended as a way to make deletion and formatting operation faster. Instead of wiping all of the area of the file, which will take longer, the system only removes the file name from the "resident list" of your storage. The next time there is a requirement for space, like for copying and writing operation, that space will be allocated to the new file overwriting the old one because for the system the file does not exist anymore. The problem is, if this happens, it is almost impossible to do a recovery operation to the old file as it physically has gone or overwritten. But there is still a chance. There is a possibility for your old file to be recovered partially because the new file might only occupies partial part of the space used by the old file, leaving the rest stay unwritten. It is the rest of this unwritten area that can be recovered.

Unfortunately, all of this recovery operation cannot be done manually using any internal Windows utilities. No, recycle bin won't work either. In fact if the file is still in the recycle bin, I believe you would not go berserk searching for any resource of file recovery because you can always recover it easily from there. So the thing you need is a recovery software. Yes you need additional software. But fortunately, you don't need to pay anything. Nowadays, there are so many great people who kind enough to give us free stuff. Recuva (pronounced "recover") is one of these stuff. It offers easy and instant file recovery. When I check its newest 1.27 version, it still has not offer partial file recovery though. But give it a chance. If Recuva still couldn't find what you're looking for for some reason including unsupported partial recovery or incompatible storage media and file system type, try the commercial product. Don't buy it straight away though. Use the trial version that offers fully functional recovery operation. Avoid trying those that only offer you free scanning, because you should pay first to do recovery function. Try Search and Recover, it offers you a limited 3 tries of recovery. Of course this will be helpful if what you look for is an individual file, but won't help if what you find are dozens of file packs. For this matter, use WinOptimizer 6. This Windows all-in-one utilities suite offers file recovery function that is not limited to the number of recovery attempt but to the 40 days time limit instead. Now, you get a handful of free file recovery choices there. Wish you well on the recovery process.

WinOptimizer is a Windows utilities software. This kind of software offers you a handful of tools and utilities that range from file recovery tools, registry cleaner, password retriever, desktop customizer, to hard drive cloner and backup. The market is already jammed with dozens of products, from low quality to high. Even big security publishers have joined the competition by integrating optimization tools in their antivirus packages. You don't need to risk yourself buying the wrong package because David Omar has compiled the Best Windows Utilities Software for your reference.

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