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Undelete Plus Offers Free, Fast File Recovery

Undelete Plus

We've gone through a ton of "simple" file recovery apps at Download Squad, and not all of them perform as advertised. Some take a painfully long time to scan only to report few - if any - recoverable files, dashing our hopes of retrieving that funny lolcat we deleted by accident.

Undelete Plus, however, is a champion at what it does. It quickly completes its scan for potential targets, displays them in a detailed list that includes likelihood to be recovered, size, date created, and path, and even gives you a second pane with totals grouped by file type.

We tried the recovery on formats that typically gives these programs fits - images and video - and Undelete Plus recovered each one without issue. Granted, there are going to be times when it can't - no recovery app is perfect - but we were certainly impressed in our testing.

If you've accidentally wiped something important from your PC, do yourself a favor and download it. We guarantee that it will increase the likelihood that your spouse won't make you sleep on the couch because you trashed their favorite pic or song by 70%.

[ via WinAddons ]

Filed under: Security, Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Microsoft, Freeware, Troubleshooting

ISOPuzzle - recover data from damaged disks

damaged diskNot to generalize too terribly badly, but if you have young kids then you probably have some damaged CDs around your house. If they happen to be important data disks, you may be able to recover some of the data from them using ISOPuzzle.

Don't be put off by the very basic landing page; ISOPuzzle is a nifty little utility that will take whatever readable data that is on a disk, and dump it into an ISO disk image file, which can be opened using a number of tools. Of course, if the damage is severe, don't get your hopes up too much. It's not going to magically read or piece together missing information. If it's gone, it's gone. But what it will do is allow you to access the rest of the data on the disk to see if there is anything useful still available.

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