Where can I find a free data-recovery program?
Recuva is a free data recovery from Piform, the company that created CCleaner, the free program for cleaning out your computer.
From their website:
“Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it’s free!“
Other features besides just accidental deletion recovery include: (Features)
- Being able to recover files from a damaged or even formatted disk
- Automatically finding and being able to restore emails emails from popular email clients (including Thunderbird, Outlook Express, and Windows Live Mail)
- Ability to restore unsaved Word documents
- Fast, “Recuva can find most files within a minute”, and find even more, older files by doing a “deep scan”
Recuva is also capable of completely destroying files, making them unrecoverable if such an action was so desired.
A portable version is available as well which is great for computer technicians.
