Today’s web pack focus is all about file recovery. We’ve got you covered if you’ve accidentally deleted files, or can’t even boot Windows and need a way to transfer important files from the drive. Beyond these general utilities, there’s also program for getting files off damages discs, backing up and restoring hardware drives, plus a rather handy tool for gamers to help them with their save files!
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BooMed is simplified Live Linux distro made to help Windows users recover files from a non-booting operating system. It comes armed with antivirus software, programs to recover deleted files and partitions, or just giving you the function to access the hard drive directly. (Free)
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This interesting bit of kit combines the ability to find the latest drivers for your hardware plus backup and restore existing installed drivers on your system. The free version here doesn’t include the intuitive integrated download manager to collate all the drivers of the Pro edition, instead outdated drivers are listed with a download link taking you directly to a download page for individual drivers. (Free)
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This powerful program makes it possible to backup up and restore entire hard drive partitions, including the boot drive. You’ll need quite a bit of redundant storage for the backup to live, but this is easily outweighed by the affordable cost of high capacity hard drives and the convenience of having a backup image of your boot to recover from. (Free)
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For dedicated gamers, game saves are irreplaceable valuable assets, so backing them up for safety or migrating them to a new system is important. It’s not a simple job if you have many installed titles, often hiding themselves in odd locations. GameSave Manager is a dedicated free application that makes short work of this problem by locating the save folders and backing them up for you. It’s just as simple to restore them back too. Any game not supported can be added through the ‘Custom Gamesave Entries’ option. A final neat trick of GameSave Manager is ‘Stream Spreader’. Here, users can migrate Steam games from the boot drive to run off other installed drives if drive space is running low. (Free)
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Files are not lost once deleted and emptied from the trash. They are recoverable if they haven’t been overwritten with new data, so the sooner you try and restore them the better chance there is. Glary Undelete can take several minutes to scan the source drive and compile a list of deleted data, then is the simple case of selecting the what you want and tapping the Restore button. If you know what your looking for, the integrated search will save you hunting through the list. (Free)
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This file recovery solution comes over a little more sophisticated than Glary Undelete, offering more options to fine tune searches based on creation dates, partial names, file sizes, with optional wizard to hand hold the user through the process. Otherwise it’s on par with it’s ability to recover deleted files from hard drives and flash-based media. (Free)
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Supporting not just CD media; Recovery Toolbox also recovers files from damaged DVD and Blu-ray too. The software should be approached as a final solution if the OS refuses to mount the disc volume, and instead applies it’s own aggressive measures to pull the data and reconstruct as much of this as possible. (Free)
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Another excellent product from the makers of freeware favourite, CCleaner. Recuva rates as a general purpose file recovery program for raising deleted files from digital purgatory. Just like others in this field, Recuva is happy to deal with any storage device you’d care to throw in its path. Making the task easier, you may specify just the types of files your want recovered through the wizard. (Free)
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Never mind recovering just a few files, what happens when you lose everything because you just can’t boot into Windows? To help you get past this miserable predicament is this freebie from Paragon. It’s a live distro you just boot from a CD. It’s an operating system in its own right enabling you to access your drive and copy files to another destination. (Free)
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You’ll discover a file scrubber for permanently removing files present in our final file deletion recovery program. I guess you can test this by running the recovery function right after! The software conveniently marks up recovered files with labels on their health status relating to whether the data is complete or overwritten, and the large preview window displays recovered images. (Free)
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I’ve not quite decided whether this is a good thing, or worried how easy it is to recover website passwords from browsers. The software scans and retrieves the saved website addresses, usernames and passwords from all installed browsers. It doesn’t have the ability to recover encrypted passwords, so at least all your online banking credentials are not at risk! (Free)
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Posted on Friday, April 20th, 2012 at 6:37 am under Web Packs. You can subscribe to comments. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.
Tags: file recovery, linux, passwords, undelete
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