Spotlight on....Search and Recover 5
"I lost wedding photos and was in despair - nothing worked to recover them. Search and Recover worked immediately!"
With Search and Recover, you can restore accidentally deleted photos, files, songs, email, or videos with a single click -- even years after the data was lost.*
- Automatically find lost data
- Point to a folder, device, drive, or CD-DVD to recover deleted data with a single click
- Recover data from malfunctioning, damaged, formatted, and repartitioned drives and devices
- Recover from all popular email programs: Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and Eudora
- Find more deleted data than is possible with most other products
Search and Recover 5 enables a home user with average computer skills to rescue lost files from a PC hard drive, a memory card, a CD or DVD, a digital camera or flash drive, and from countless other digital devices and media. It retrieves deleted MP3s, photos, videos, system files, or even entire folders, and recovery is guided by user-friendly wizards and extensive help documentation.
Version 5 of Search and Recover gives you more intelligent recovery algorithms, expanded file type and media support, increased control over the data recovery process, and a redesigned interface that's easier to use.
Now only $27.95 (regularly $39.95)
System Requirements: 32-bit Windows 2000, XP, and Vista; internet connection.
* Tips for Effective Data Recovery
Search and Recover can rescue data even years after deletion, but with the passage of time, there is a risk of data being physically overwritten and irretrievable by any software-based data recovery method. To follow are a few simple steps that will help improve your chances of successfully recovering your files.
- DO recover your data as soon as possible. Recover deleted data as soon as you can. When you delete a file, the file contents are not actually erased, but the space on the disk is marked as available for new data. Over time, as more new data is written to the disk, the chances increase that data associated with the lost or deleted files will be overwritten.
- DO NOT restart your PC after data loss. Restarting your PC is a disk-intensive process that causes the system to read and write data to the hard drives, which can overwrite the data you want to recover.
- DO NOT save any documents or files. Saving documents and files writes information to the computer's disk drives, increasing the risk of the new data overriding the data you need to recover.
- DO NOT start or use any programs other than a data recovery tool. Starting programs can cause the system to commit data that is cached in memory to the hard drive, which can overwrite your deleted files.
- DO create a disk image of the drive where the data was lost or deleted. It is good practice to create a disk image of your drive first, then recover the files from there, so that the operating system does not have a chance to overwrite your information.
- DO save recovered files to a different drive. Recovering deleted files to their original location can compromise the integrity of your data. Recovering to the same drive can overwrite the deleted file as it is being recovered, thereby thwarting the recovery process in its tracks and corrupting your data. Recover to another drive whenever possible.
- DO NOT (for email recovery) compact or compress your mailbox. Most email programs provide tools to either save old messages to an archive or compact folders to conserve disk space. However, there is a greater chance of email recovery when email messages are not compacted or compressed. These tools interfere with the ability of data recovery tools to find deleted email messages. Do not compact or compress your mailbox if you have lost or deleted messages.