A look at PC Tools File Recover
Overview
If you’ve lost data due to file deletion or even a complete reformatting of the hard drive, hope - and help - is readily available. PC Tools File Recover is a software product that knows where to look for files that have been deleted, lost, and reformatted.
Features
While it may sound too good to be true, File Recover retrieves deleted data that you may have thought was gone forever. It’s not magic; it’s technology. Here’s a look at the impressive list of File Recover features:
- Scans hard drives, USB sticks, floppies, partitions, and other media formats for recoverable files.
- File Recover can display its results based on specific criteria such as file type, file name, size, condition, modification date, and so on.
- File Recover uses a non-destructive, read-only process which will not cause further data loss to the drive affected.
- Batch file recovery recovers groups of files at once.
- Scans for specific files.
- PC Tools File Recover is fast and easy to use.
- File Recover recovers numerous file types from a variety of file systems such as NTSF, FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32.
Benefits
No matter what data has been lost, be it an important Excel spreadsheet for work, a half-written manuscript in Word, photos of family members, and so on, File Recover may be able to get it back. Rather than suffering through the heartache of lost files or struggling to recreate the data, le the file recover technology take over and get your data back. As long as the underlying data has not been replaced by new data, your files may be good candidates for recovery.
How it works
PC Tools File Recover works by going directly to the data on the media itself, completely bypassing the tables and indexes normally required of the computer’s file system. When data is removed, either by deletion or formatting, it isn’t actually erased. Only the references pointing to the data is removed. It’s like removing a street sign in a neighborhood. Just because the street sign is gone, it doesn’t mean that the street has disappeared and the houses are gone.
PC Tools offers File Recover offers a free download that you can use to see if your lost or deleted files are recoverable. The commercial version comes with free support and updates for one year and is available in several different licensing configurations.
Recommendations
If you’ve lost files or have reformatted your hard drive or other media (such as memory sticks, USB sticks, CDs, floppy disks, etc.), take a deep breath and give File Recover a try.
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This is a tool that will also restore data like excel files.
This application will help users avoid the loss of important data most often processed using spreadsheets, such as statistical, economic, science information, etc.
The program scans the specified Microsoft Excel worksheet and gets all available information from it, will recover information such as from a damaged folder, a single mouse click is enough to export the data to Microsoft Excel and continue working with it.
Also it supports almost all existing versions of XLS and XLSX formats: Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, XP, 2002, 2003 and 2007 (xlsx repair).