6 Best and Free File Recovery Software (All-In-One Pack)

Sometimes you may lose important files by accidentally deleting them or through an abnormal system failure. Data can be lost by formatting your hard drive or by computer viruses or you may lose memorable photos of an important event from your memory card.
You can recover your files in such cases by using a good file or data recovery software. There are many free software to do that. In this article we will list out our pick of the best free recovery software. The list includes some for recovery of files from Hard disk, from CD and DVD, and some  for Memory Cards, Flash Drives etc. An All-In-One Pack for all your File Recovery needs.

1. PC INSPECTOR File Recovery

PC Inspector File Recovery is a popular and good file recovery software for recovering many types of files from your Hard disk. This data recovery tool supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. This means you can recover lost data on hard disks, Smartmedia, compact Flash, Memory Stick and other such devices.
PC Inspector File Recovery can find partitions even when the boot sector or FAT has been erased. It can even recover files which no longer contain a header entry.

The original time and date stamp of the recovered files is retained. Recovering files that have been deleted from the Recycle Bin using PC Inspector File Recovery is easy. All such files can be restored with a few clicks from the Deleted folder which can be accessed by selecting the logical drive from the Object menu.

You can also recover files sector-wise on a drive by giving the start and the end sectors for that drive. By using the “Special Recovery Function”, you can quickly recover files of a specific format. Currently this feature supports ARJ, AVI, BMP, CDR, DOC, DXF, DBF, XLS, EXE, GIF, HLP, HTML, HTM, JPG, LZH, MID, MOV, MP3, PDF, PNG, RTF, TAR, TIF, WAV and ZIP files.

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2. Recuva

Piriform, the makers of Ccleaner, gives yet another nice utility Recuva. This free file recovery tool can recover lost data from any rewriteable media like Flash Drive, Camera, iPod, Harddisk, etc. It can even recover data from formatted or damaged disks. It has simple interface which makes it easier to use for Basic users. Advanced Users can use it’s Options to fine tune search for the lost data. Using Recuva, you can preview any image before recovering it.

Recuva comes with Secure Overwrite functionality. By using this you can permanently delete a file. The files deleted by using this function can never be recovered. Recuva comes in a Portable version too. You can load it in a USB Flash Drive and do an instant recovery on any PC without installing it. Multi-language interface is supported.

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3. Pandora Recovery

Pandora Recovery is another feature rich and popular Data Recovery Software. It supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 and NTFS/EFS formatted Volumes. You can recover files based on search functionality. You can search by file name, file size, creation date and last accessed date. Pandora Recovery supports many image formats including BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, ICO,TIF, TGA, PCX, WBMP, WMF, JP2, J2K, JBG, JPC, PGX, PNM, RAS, and CUR. You can preview the image before recovering it.

One of it’s handy features is Surface(Cluster) scan. Using this, you can quickly find and recover files independent of whether the deleted file still has a file allocation table. Surface scan can scan files whose file allocation table is damaged or missing. Pandora Recovery can recover files regardless of their type (Archived, Hidden, Encrypted, Compressed etc.) , size or any other attribute. The file can be recovered as long as the space on the logical drive has not been reused by operating system.

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4. CD Recovery Toolbox

There may be plenty of times you have lost data burned in a CD or DVD. You feel lost when your DVD having your favorite movie or video stops playing! The disc may have become damaged and not readable. CD Recovery Toolbox is a free nice software to recover data from corrupted CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-Ray discs. It is compatible with Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003, and Windows Vista.

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5. PC INSPECTOR Smart Recovery

PC Inspector Smart Recovery is a free software for recovering lost data from most of portable digital media. The devices include Flash Card, Smart Media, SONY Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card or any other data media for digital cameras.
It can find images, audio and video files.

PC Inspector Smart Recovery supports the most of popular picture formats including .jpg, .amr, .tif, .bmp, .gif, Canon .crw , Fuji .raf , RICOH .raw, Olympus .orf (E-XX), Olympus .orf (C5050), Nokia 3gp, Kodak .dcr, Minolta .mrw, Nikon .nef (D1H/D1X), Nikon .nef (D2H/D2X), Nikon .nef (E5000/E5700), Sigma – Foveon .x3f, mp4, QuickTime .mov (Konica Minolta). Video files in .avi, QuickTime .mov format and audio files in .wav, .dss format can also be recovered.

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6. CDCheck

CDCheck is another mini software for recovering lost data from CD and DVD. The software is free for personal use. Note that after installation, it shows as a 30-day evaluation version. But you can register for free in their website to get a free license code. After adding the free license, CDCheck shows as FREE LICENSE version.

With CDCheck, you can create hash files on any of the CD/DVD drives on your PC. CDCheck later uses this hash file to check for errors on drives. The recovery functionality is very simple and easy to use. Along with the disk to be scanned and recovered, you can specify the minimum number of sector rereads and also the sector recovery time out.

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Good luck with your File Recovery!