File Recovery Software

[Mizicke5273]

Try Recurva; it is good and free. http://www.piriform.com/recuva
I know a few people who have used it with good success.

That's the first one that comes to mind that is easily available.

[CptnBlues63]

I've never investigated or used any myself............so far, saying that is an open invitation to Murphy to make a liar out of me, lol.............but I have a buddy in the biz who probably has so I emailed him to ask.

I have a small NAS at home and you might want to consider buying one yourself. They are great for file storage (NAS = network attached storage) and if you spend a few bucks, you can have redundancy for your data. I backup all important data from my computers and my wife's as well onto the NAS. Then should a disaster happen, I can grab the one small box and run and everything that matters to me is safe and easy to access at a later date. I have all my pictures and videos on there as well as other files and documents.

If you have a small home network and a SOHO router, you could set a NAS box up right beside your router and plug straight into it. Then it's a simple thing to map network drives and transfer data. You can also automate nightly backups to be stored onto the NAS as well.

Mine's a simple two drive unit with the two drives in a RAID 1 array. The RAID array provides the redundancy. Should one drive fail, the data is safe on the other and as soon as I replace the defunct drive, it's immediately copied over to the replacement with no loss.

[CptnBlues63]

So my friend and coworker responded just a couple seconds after I logged off.....lol. Since I still had the tab open on CS I just logged back in quickly.

Here's what we use where I work:

http://download.cnet.com/R-Studio-Da...-10061966.html

He said it costs about $30 but works VERY well.

I just had a quick look at the link and it appears to be a very comprehensive program.

I hope this helps!

My buddy just told me he figured it was free for 14 days.......