We opened Recovery Review to help general consumer better understand the realities of the modern market of data recovery. Our strong emphasis to the go-it-yourself type of products makes reviewing data recovery software a natural choice. We carefully select only the best data recovery tools for your consideration, making unbiased reviews for every worthy product. A variety of different undelete, unerase, and unformat tools have passed through our hands. We do our best to give you a weighed independent opinion on the modern data repair utilities. Please feel free to download and use the reviewed tools.
There are several types of data recovery products depending on your situation.
- Undelete and unerase utilities recover accidentally deleted files from your disks without much complication. In this category, we reviewed and compared a few commercial and freeware tools. You'll certainly find the right type of product if you're looking for a tool to quickly restore a few files.
- Hard disk and partition recovery tool recover lost partitions and corrupted hard drives, repair accidentally formatted volumes and fix broken file systems. If you are looking for something to fix FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux ext2fs or MacOS logical disks, look no further!
- Removable media recovery tools can restore, fix and repair data on corrupted USB flash sticks, diskettes, ZIP drives, digital cameras and the many available memory cards such as SD, Mini-SD, MicroSD, MMC, RS-MMC and such. This category also lists the recovery tools for portable MP3 and video players such as iPod, iRiver, and Zune.
- CD and DVD recovery tools recover data from optical media with accidentally terminated sessions, burning errors or wrong disk parameters.
- Password recovery tools give access to password-protected documents, including ZIP, MS Office, Word, Excel, Access, and Adobe PDF.
- Database recovery and repair software to fix corrupted MS Access and FoxPro DBF databases.
- Tools for email repair help you fix corrupted mailboxes and recover lost email if you are using Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, The Bat!, or the newest Vista Windows Mail.
- Everything else includes other useful tools that are somehow related to data recovery, including secure delete tools, data wipers and backup software.
We are striving to keep our site up-to-date, searching and reviewing new products daily. If you developed a new data recovery product, we'd be happy to review your software. Just let us know about your product by using the PAD submission form.