May 5, 2009

Data recovery tools for free

From time to time virtually, every computer user finds that some data no matter how small has been lost. This is because computers are not totally infallible and therefore sometimes something goes wrong.

The best thing that any computer user can do is to be prepared. If the user has everything in place to ensure that as soon as something happens the problem can be solved immediately, then the problem simply becomes a minor issue.

Data loss can be catastrophic for some computer users and for businesses, this can be even more serious if it involves company records, yet there are many free solutions out there that can help the computer user out, here are just five:

TestDisk (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Recuva (Windows)
PhotoRec (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Restoration (Windows)
Undelete Plus (Windows)

Source [Life Hacker]