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How many times have you cursed because your wife, your husband or your friend has deleted an important file on your computer, also empting the trash bin on your desktop? Don’t tell me, I dont’ want to know. I can hear your curses even from here. If you are at work or at home it can happen that you or somebody using your computer may do something stupid like this. You have to put this into account. The thing you have to know is that there are nice pieces of software that let you recover every kind of deleted file in seconds. Pictures, MP3, documents, software. Everything can be restored in a few easy steps and above all, for free! Here you can find some of the most famous free software that can help you when it looks like everything is lost.

1. Recuva. This small free utility “restores files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!” It runs on Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and 98.
2. Pc Inspector File Recovery. This free software recovers everything from any kind of hard disk having one of the following formats: FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file system. Its most important features include: Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged, Recovers files with the original time and date stamp, supports the following disk formats: ARJ AVI BMP CDR DOC DXF DBF XLS EXE GIF HLP HTML HTM JPG LZH MID. It runs on WINDOWS™ 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
3. NTFS Undelete. This almost unknown free software manages to recover your most important files from any NTFS partition in your hard disk, even if you emptied Recycle Bin. This application is rather simple and barebone but it does exactly what it promises. It runs on Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista, NTFS file system.
4. PhotoRec. This free utility is meant to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (not just pictures). Basically, PhotoRec goes beyond the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted. It runs on Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD.
5. Data Unerase Personal Edition. This free software restores files that have been deleted through normal methods, including accidental deletions from the recycle bin. It recovers files from FAT12/16/32 and NTFS hard drives, memory sticks, USB flash drives, memory cards, removable media and more. It runs on Windows ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 and Vista.
6. SoftPerfect File Recovery. Another free utility that recovers deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5. It dones’t need any installation to run. It runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003.