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Copy Corrupted Files from CD, DVD, USB Drives

minexa — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:39:51 +0000

Having some corrupted files in a CD, DVD, USB drive or in other storage devices that you can’t copy with the built-in copy utility in Windows? There are lots of tools that can help you out. Unstoppable Copier is one of the free recovery tools you can use to copy corrupted files.

What it does when dealing with a corrupted file is to try to recover it. When the damage turns out to be so bad to the point where it can’t be recovered by the program, Unstoppable Copier copies only the parts that it can still read and then put these pieces together to create a healthy or normal file.

Unstoppable Copier has a number of options for you to play with. You can copy the undamaged files first, for example. You can also adjust how deep the recovery should be done or how many the recovery attempts should be performed before skipping the bad parts.

Unstoppable Copier works with Windows 7, Vista, XP, NT 4, 9x, ME and Linux. The portable version as well as the installer are both available for download.

Download Unstoppable Copier to copy corrupted files in Windows and Linux

Restore Deleted Files with DiskDigger

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:40:40 +0000

DiskDigger is a portable, free file recovery software that can be used to restore deleted files from hard disk, USB flash drive and memory cards. In short, every device that can be read by a computer can be scanned to restore the deleted files within. Being focused only on document, image and multimedia files, you may find it easier to do the file recovery if your file target belongs to any of the supported file types. Beside able to restore deleted files that have been accidentally deleted, you can also use it to restore accidentally formatted files.

Another advantage of using DiskDigger, beside of its portability, to restore deleted files is that you can preview the files while the scanning process is still running. The scanning process entirely runs in memory so that there won’t be any temporary files written unless you want to save the restored files. Instead of depending on the file system, DiskDigger directly reads the the raw data chunks (sectors) to restore deleted files.

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Recovering Deleted Files

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:59:25 +0000

Recovering deleted files can be easily done. There are many free file recovery software you can use if you want to recover accidentally deleted files. Recuva is one of those freeware that has been mentioned many times for its reliability in recovering deleted files. Fast, easy to use, and updated quite often. The developer even claims that the program can recover files that have been deleted by viruses, bugs and errors. Either the deleted files are in digital camera memory cards or MP3 players, or has been emptied from recycle bin in your computer, Recuva will bring the files back.

Recuva displays a wizard the first time you run it, providing the easiest way in recovering deleted files. The first screen asks you the type of the files that you want to recover if it is a music, picture, document or video file type. The next screen asks you to specify the location of the deleted files. Then the last one tells you that Recuva is ready to start the recovering process and ask if you want to enable deep scan.

If you don’t like wizard mode, then you can turn it off through the options menu within the program. The options also lets you to restore the folder structure of the deleted files if you want to. There are also other options for you to choose as well such as enabling the display of zero byte files.

Recovering deleted files

Recuva works only for Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and 98.