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File Recovery - Undelete

Recover My Files

SUMMARY: Recover My Files is a file recovery package for Windows with preview capabilities for many file types.

Recover My Files is a commercial file recovery package for Windows from GetData. Recover My Files can perform searches for temporary files, recently deleted files and folders, or you can do a deeper search for "lost" files.

The software can preview a variety of file types including images, word processing documents, ZIP files, and text files, helping you to determine if real data can be obtained from deleted files. Recovered files can be saved to media or burned to CD/DVD.

Recover My Files in action - note a graphic is being previewed

Note that you can download a trial version, but it will not save recovered files even though you can preview them.

When running the software, select the drive you want to search and then you can look for specific file types such as graphics, documents, archives, and multimedia. Potentially recoverable files are listed sorted by file type, and each file listing contains its size, type, original folder (if available), and a recovery possibility such as "Overwritten", "Poor", "Medium", or "Very Good".

Recover My Files: http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

As with all file recovery software, results will vary based on many factors including whether a drive has been defragged, amount of computer use since the file was deleted, etc. Even if software claims to recover a file, information may be lost. Your results with this and all file recovery software may vary.