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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Troubleshooting, Windows x64

Portable DiskDigger provides free file recovery for Windows


It never hurts to have one more data recovery utility in your portable toolkit, especially when it's free.

Like Recuva, Disk Digger is dead simple to use, and does a good job at recovering the deleted files most users really care about - photos, music, videos, and documents. The preview pane supports most image types and some documents, and you can choose to recover a portion of files DiskDigger finds. Scanning speed and restoration success was on par with Recuva in my testing.

On Vista and Windows 7 make sure you run DiskDigger as an Administrator, otherwise you might run into problems. Though I received an error message after launching it on Vista Ultimate x64, it ran without further problems after clicking continue and did a good job locating and restoring lost files.

In case you have issues getting the file from the author's page, it's mirrored at Snapfiles as well.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Recuva files you accidentally deleted


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I've never really had much use for programs that let you recover deleted files. I remember back in my DOS days, struggling with undelete programs and always being disappointed when a Word document I recovered was filled with errors. Well, times have changed, and when I heard that the makers of CCleaner, a system optimization program I use all the time, had released Recuva, I decided to take it for a spin.

I have to say, I like Recuva a lot. It's super-fast to install and to run. You just select a drive, and Recuva will scan for deleted files that have been deleted, including files that you've emptied from your recycle bin. If the file's recoverable, Recuva will tell you. If it's not, it will tell you that as well.

Recuva's not the only free undelete program around, but if you have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to the recycle bin, it's worth checking out.

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