Five tools for recovering your data

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Five tools for recovering your data

By Brien Posey August 18, 2015, 12:35 PM PDT

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Introduction

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Introduction

It’s never fun when a hard disk or other data media goesrnbad. Losing irreplaceable data can really ruin your day. Thankfully, a widernvariety of data recovery tools are available that may be able to help you getrnyour stuff back.

Note: This gallery is also available as an article.

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Data Rescue PC 3

I’ve used Data Rescue PC 3 on several occasions and had good luck with it. The downloadrnconsists of a CD/DVD image. The program requires you to burn this image to a blankrnCD or DVD and then boot the ailing PC from the removable media you’ve created. Thisrnis an important capability, since installing a data recovery utility onto therndisk that needs to be recovered risks data loss.

Data Rescue PC 3

Data Rescue PC 3 has all the basics covered, and a Macrnversion is also available. The software is designed to work even if a driverndoes not mount properly or if the drive has been corrupted due to hardwarernerrors or viruses. It can recover an entire drive or specific files. If you dorndecide to perform a full drive recovery, you can opt to perform a block-by-blockrncopy of data from an old drive to a new drive.

Data Rescue PC 3 sells for $99.00, but a free trial isrnavailable for download.

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There is even a function for ripping audio files that mayrnexist on a damaged CD.

Search and Recover

The tool contains options for recovering pictures andrnmovies, songs and sounds, emails, and an entire PC.

Searchrnand Recover sells for $39.95, but a free trial version is available forrndownload.

Boomerang Data Recovery

The other nice capability is deep file type awareness. Thernsoftware knows the difference between various file types and can search forrnspecific types of data during a recovery.

Boomerang Data Recovery sells for $99.95, but a free trialrnversion is available for download.

Free Any Data Recovery

Free Any Data Recovery is marketed as a free data recovery tool. In reality, itrnallows you to recover up to 500 MB of data, but you will have to upgrade to thernpaid version if you want to recover more data than that.

Free Any Data Recovery

The tool itself uses a relatively simple interface and itsrnbest feature is its ability to locate specific types of deleted files, such asrnMP3 files or Microsoft Word documents.

By Brien Posey

* 1988 - Started teaching myself about computers \ * 1992 - Mainframe programmer for an insurance company \ * 1993 - Network Administrator for a different insurance company \ * 1996 - Author for The Cobb Group \ * 1998 - Network Administrator

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