Recover Lost Documents

Disk Internals - Free Download for Document Recovery
DiskInternals Uneraser is a free download for recovery of the traditional Microsoft application generated documents together wth PDF files up to 64KB - document recovery for files larger than that requires you to purchase the document recovery software.

You can perform document recovery operations easily and simply and the software supports any storage medium, so you can recover documents from USB sticks, flash drives as well as external drives and floppy disks.

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Simple Steps to Take when a Hard Drive Crash Happens

Every hard drive will crash at some point, this is not a matter of “if” but “when” it will happen and here some simple steps to take when it occurs.

First, attempt to repair the drive using the disk-repair software that your will have come with your PC and it’s operating system.

Second step to take in the event that  the first step is not sucessful is to look at using a specialist commercial disk-repair solution (check out Stompsofts Recover Lost Data) but it is generally advisable to have these already installed and running before a crash so the software can monitor hard drive activity leading up to the crash event.

Finally, if this doesn’t work, you’re going to be looking at a a specialty data recovery service that will physically attempt to repair and recover your data from the hard drive - this can be expensive.

Is backing up your PC starting to look like an attractive option now ?

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this was a real life query:

“I was trying to copy and paste about fifteen paragraphs of text from a Microsoft Word document to an email message, and somehow ended up cutting the text out of the document and then had the email client crash”

So here’s how to perform the recovery:

MS Word keeps a history of your dcument even though it looks like nothing is in there and even though you have “Revision Tracking” turned off.

To access the information you need to enable document conversion to open - in XP this is performed by opening a blank document then click Tools=>Options=>General tab.

Put a tick in the “Confirm Conversion at Open” box.

Open up the file with the missing text in it and you a “Convert File” dialog box apears - select “Recover Text from Any File” and click “OK”.

You’re document should now have a jumble of what looks like jibberish with MS Word markers and annotations all over it but in there will be your lost text.

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PhotoRecovery provides for Vista compatible image recovery

PhotoRecovery is a Vista compatible shareware solution that recovers images from smartcards, usb sticks, SD, Microdrive, PCMIA - in fact almost anything that you can write an image to it will perform recovery operations for you.

PhotoRecovery displays previews of recoverable images and features an innovative recovery algorithm  - this piece of shareware was only released in November 2006 and it produces very impressive results.

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