Recover Deleted Data: Recover Deleted Data: Hiring the services of companies specializing in data recovery starts at a few hundred Euros. Often, however, the 80 Euro tool, DiskRecovery, can be of help. Built into this software are professional technologies that can rescue data off of formatted or damaged hard disks, memory cards, and digital cameras. There are three recovery modes to choose from: "Deepscan" scans a disk for especially small files; "Rawscan" is meant for mistakenly formatted data volumes; or, because the recovery of data with the two previous modes can take hours, "Smartscan" is meant for more mild cases of data loss, quickly scanning only the damaged areas of the disk. Using this mode in a test on a 20 GB partition, all 300 supported file formats were successfully recovered.

The CD itself does not function as a boot disk. However, the tool does offer the option of creating a precautionary rescue disk. One way or another, the program can then be started from the CD. This would potentially allow for data recovery on a defective hard disk that was temporarily connected to another PC. Shredded or overwritten data cannot be recovered with this software. In such cases, the only option available lies with expensive data rescue services.

Conclusion: A user-friendly program that can help in most emergencies.