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Recuva is a freeware data recovery program, developed by Piriform, and runs under Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and 98. It is able to recover files that have been "permanently" deleted and marked by the operating system as free space. The program can also be used to recover files deleted from flash/USB drives, memory cards or MP3 players.

We have all had it, deleted data by mistake and then whine about it for hours. Be it music, your holiday photo, an important office presentation, its data and data that you can delete accidentally.

Most people dont know that data we delete is still in our system and I'm not talking about the Recycle Bin. When we even premanently delete data, it is still present on out hard disk but the Operating System does not recognise it as important data. When we want to put new data into our PC, windows simply writes over our older data that we deleted. Now, hold on a second, if the data is still physically present on the hard disk(before overwriting) but not viewable by the operating system, logically, our data still exists! Thats where recovery software comes in.

Using Recuva, a brilliant recovery program, you can use it to undelete data you have managed to delete. Made from Piriform, you can be assured it has a clean, easy to use interface. Furthermore, Rucuva boasts loads of other extra-ordinary features. It can even recover things from your Apple Ipod, even if you've formatted your Ipod!

Even if you've got a corrupt hard dirve with losts of important information and you cant get to work on your PC, take the drive to a friend's PC, install recuva and give it a try. You can be sure that recuva will help recover loads of stuff from your damaged drive.

Clean software, tiny installation package, its definitely a must have on every single PC and willl save you from anguish and pain the next time you delete something by mistake. And even more there are just 3 steps to doing your recovery:
1. Scan, 2. Find, 3. Undelete


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Recuva is a free file recovery program that makes it extremely to locate files that were once thought to be lost forever. The wizard-like approach and intuitive user interface will appeal to all user levels.

The program opens with a very sleek, professional user interface. We found it extremely easy to navigate right off the bat, but it does employ a wizard to walk you through the file recovery process. All we had to do was select either the C or D drive, or both, from a drop-down menu.

If you have a general idea of where the file may be, you can pick from a list of file paths, including Pictures, Music, Documents, Video, and Compressed files. As soon as we clicked the Scan button, the program immediately went to work, and within seconds, it had pulled up a very long list of deleted files and their respective paths. The program's Advanced view gave us more detailed information of each file, including the file's size and creation time.

Recovering selected files was also extremely easy and involved simply checking off the file or files and clicking the Recover button. Within seconds, the file was recovered and saved to our location of choice.

Though we don't think you'll need it, we were disappointed to find that the program doesn't include any kind of Help file.

It does, however, include a link to the publisher's Web site, which contains a forum. All in all, Recuva is an excellent choice for anyone in need of reliable file recovery.

- from cnet.com