Recover deleted files from your computer or digital camera

Some time back I had written about a recovery software I used to get back my data after accidentally deleting a partition. Old post here.

That was a paid software which was very powerful. Chances are you might have deleted a file and just want to recover it. There are freeware options available to do this. So here are 2 freewares that can help you retrieve your data.

Glary Undelete is a freeware program that can retrieve data deleted from the recycle bin, files deleted with the Shift key pressed down or those deleted from command prompt. It can also recover files from memory cards of digital cameras. NTFS and FAT files systems are supported and works fine on XP and Vista.

Restoration is a portable recovery software, so you can run it even from a USB stick. At 229KB, I am amazed at how much this software can do. Restoration also does the same functions as Glary Undelete. Even though its so small, it actually managed to find more files that Glary.

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How to recover deleted files

Run program, choose location of deleted files and search. Once the files are found, use the restore option to try copying them back. Note that once the space used by a deleted file is overwritten, recovery software cannot retrieve the files. So, if you lost any data, make you you do not use that drive till you manage to restore the files.