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Understanding Disk Failure and Data Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide

Understanding disk failure and data recovery is a critical aspect of maintaining data integrity and preventing data loss. Disk failure can occur due to various reasons, such as hardware failure, software corruption, or human error. Regardless of the cause, the consequences of disk failure can be devastating, resulting in the loss of important data, financial losses, and even reputational damage.

When disk failure occurs, data recovery becomes a priority. Data recovery is the process of retrieving lost, corrupted, or damaged data from a failed storage device. This process involves various techniques and tools, and the success of the recovery largely depends on the severity of the damage and the expertise of the recovery team.

Understanding disk failure and data recovery is crucial for individuals and businesses alike. By being aware of the common causes of disk failure and the available data recovery options, one can take proactive measures to prevent data loss and minimize the impact of disk failure. Whether it’s backing up data regularly, implementing robust security measures, or seeking professional data recovery services, there are various steps that can be taken to ensure that data remains safe and secure.

Understanding Disk Failure

Disk failure is a common issue that can cause data loss. Understanding the types, causes, and signs of disk failure can help prevent data loss and aid in data recovery.

Types of Disk Failure

There are two types of disk failure: logical and physical. Logical disk failure occurs when there is a software issue that prevents the operating system from accessing the data on the disk. Physical disk failure occurs when there is a hardware issue that prevents the disk from spinning or reading data properly.

Causes of Disk Failure

There are several causes of disk failure, including:

  • Physical damage to the disk
  • Overheating of the disk
  • Power surges or outages
  • Manufacturing defects
  • Age of the disk

Signs of Disk Failure

There are several signs that indicate disk failure, including:

Signs of Logical Disk Failure Signs of Physical Disk Failure
Files or folders disappearing Clicking or grinding noises
Error messages when accessing files Slow or unresponsive performance
Blue screen of death (Windows) Unable to boot the computer

It is important to address any signs of disk failure immediately to prevent further damage and potential data loss.

Data Recovery

Data recovery is the process of retrieving lost or damaged data from a storage device. When a disk fails, it can be a stressful experience, especially if the data is critical to the user. In this section, we will discuss the various methods of data recovery, the challenges that come with it, and how to prevent data loss.

Data Recovery Methods

There are several methods for data recovery, including:

  • Software-based recovery: This method involves using data recovery software to scan the disk for lost or damaged files. The software can then recover the files and save them to another location.
  • Hardware-based recovery: This method involves using specialized hardware to recover data from a damaged disk. The hardware can read data from the disk even if it is physically damaged.
  • Professional data recovery: This method involves sending the damaged disk to a professional data recovery service. These services have specialized equipment and expertise to recover data from even the most damaged disks.

Challenges in Data Recovery

Data recovery can be a challenging process, and there are several challenges that can make it difficult:

  • Physical damage to the disk: If the disk is physically damaged, it can be difficult or impossible to recover the data.
  • Overwritten data: If new data has been written to the disk, it can overwrite the old data, making it impossible to recover.
  • Encryption: If the data is encrypted, it can be difficult or impossible to recover without the encryption key.

Preventing Data Loss

The best way to prevent data loss is to back up your data regularly. This can be done using an external hard drive, cloud storage, or other backup methods. It is also important to keep your software and operating system up to date to prevent security vulnerabilities that can lead to data loss.

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NTFS Recovery Wizard

See What You Get – Free!

With NTFS Recovery Wizard, you always get exactly what you see. The Live Preview feature ensures your ability to recover a given file or document by producing a complete preview of that file or document. And we aren’t talking about a ‘hex’ preview of random numbers and symbols. Instead, NTFS Recovery Wizard shows your Word documents as Word documents, and your digital images as viewable pictures to let you examine the quality of the recovery before you pay a cent.

NTFS Recovery Wizard Can Do:

  • Recover files deleted from emptied Recycle Bin
  • Restore files from NTFS volumes damaged after to a system failure
  • Recover all files from disks damaged by a virus
  • Access and recover files from inaccessible, unreadable, damaged and corrupted files.
  • Recover files from formatted and repartitioned disks, even if new data has been already written.
  • Recover information from disks with damaged partition tables, MBR and system records.

Recover Data from NTFS Volumes with a Wizard

You can restore files and folders from damaged, corrupted, inaccessible and unreadable hard drives completely by yourself with a simple, easy to use wizard. Emptied Windows Recycle Bin? Accidentally formatted a disk? Tried using Windows checkdisk on a damaged disk? No need to bring your hard drive to a data recovery lab! Save time and money and use NTFS Recovery Wizard to recover your data completely automatically.

No Experience Required

Try reading about NTFS and the recovery techniques, and you’ll be lost for weeks. NTFS Recovery Wizard knows a lot about the internals of the file system, using this knowledge to help you get your data back. Run the wizard, choose your disk, and click ‘Next’ to start the job! It’s that simple, and it works for all NTFS drives including the badly damaged ones. NTFS Recovery Wizard does the job at no extra charge even if you tried to fix it yourself with other tools!

Under the Hood

The Easy Recovery Wizard sure looks simple, but the recovery algorithms are not! NTFS Recovery Wizard benefits from years of constant development, and employs the most sophisticated data recovery technologies available on the market.

The proprietary PowerSearch technology makes it possible to locate lost and deleted files on formatted or badly damaged disks. Unlike other data recovery tools, NTFS Recovery Wizard does not rely exclusively on what Windows knows about your files. Instead, it scans the entire surface of your hard disk in low-level mode, reading sector by sector. The process is slow and takes significant time to complete, but allows NTFS Recovery Wizard to locate files that would be otherwise lost forever. The PowerSearch technology uses advanced signature analysis techniques similar to those employed by anti-virus scanners to detect the beginning and end of documents in recognized formats.

Your Files First

Your work, pictures, archives and every other piece of user-created content are our top priority. Why restoring all those EXE and DLL files you can easily get by simply re-installing the system? Instead, NTFS Recovery Wizard makes every effort possible to locate and recover the files you created before it starts looking for other files – such as EXE or DLL.

PowerSearch is able to discover and save over a hundred file formats, including Office documents, digital pictures in various formats, RAW images from digital SLR cameras, ZIP and RAR archives, and various audio and video files. Even if half of your hard disk is completely dead, NTFS Recovery Wizard will recover the important stuff from the other half!

When to Use NTFS Recovery Wizard

Not sure if NTFS Recovery Wizard is the right tool for you? Here’s the list of real-world situations where NTFS Recovery Wizard was able to help.

  • The user emptied the Recycle Bin on Windows desktop. NTFS Recovery Wizard recovered the deleted files.
  • A disk volume with valuable documents was damaged due to a system failure. NTFS Recovery Wizard recovered all documents and repaired the volume.
  • A disk was damaged by a virus. NTFS Recovery Wizard fixed the disk. The user cleaned the virus with a third-party antivirus.
  • Windows made the hard drive inaccessible. The user could not access the disk with documents. NTFS Recovery Wizard recovered all documents, fixed the damage and restored disk access.
  • The user formatted a disk. This was easy: NTFS Recovery Wizard was able to un-format the disk in a few minutes.
  • User’s files were unreadable because of file system corruption. NTFS Recovery Wizard saved inaccessible files onto another disk, and fixed the file system.
  • The user lost all of the disks due to damaged partition table. NTFS Recovery Wizard was able to recover the user’s work and restore the disk.
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Undelete Wizard Advanced Features

Undelete Digital Pictures from digital memory cards and cameras

In addition to the many supported formats, Undelete Wizard can reliably recover all types of digital images. The tool is not limited to recovering digital pictures in common formats such as JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG or TIFF. In addition to those, it also supports many popular RAW formats produced by advanced point-and-shoot and all digital SLR cameras. RAW, DNG, CR2, NEF and many more digital picture and RAW file formats can be recovered from digital memory cards and cameras.

Undelete Wizard Can:

  • Recover files from disabled or emptied Recycle Bin
  • Undelete files deleted with [Shift]+[Delete]
  • Restore files deleted a long time ago
  • Recover documents saved in multiple versions
  • Undelete partially overwritten and corrupted documents
  • Recover digital pictures from corrupted memory cards or directly from digital cameras
  • Undelete RAW images shot with digital SLR
  • Recover files and folders deleted or corrupted by a virus
  • Recover files from disks with bad sectors
  • Restore information from disks with corrupted file systems
  • Access and recover files from damaged and inaccessible hard drives

 

Recover Information from Various Storage Media

With Undelete Wizard, you can undelete files from a variety of media, including the following:

  • Hard disks and SSD drives
  • Digital point-and-shoot and SLR cameras
  • Floppy disks
  • Zip and Jaz Disk
  • ISO images (FAT or NTFS)
  • CompactFlash, Sony Memory Sticks, xD Picture Cards, SmartMedia cards, Secure Digital SD cards, and MMC
  • USB flash drives and external hard drives

Undelete ZIP and RAR Archives

Deleted ZIP and RAR archives can contain multiple files, often making their recovery a top priority. Undelete Wizard locates and recovers the deleted archives with the PowerSearch technology.

Compatibility

Undelete Wizard supports a variety of operating systems and file systems, including the following:

  • RAID and Motherboard RAID
  • Windows Dynamic Disk
  • Remote recovery
  • Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista
  • File recovery on NTFS partitions on all versions of Windows, including Windows 95, 98, and ME
  • FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (NT 4), NTFS5 (2000, XP).
  • Hidden FAT12, Hidden FAT16, Hidden FAT32, Hidden NTFS
  • Compressed and encrypted files on NTFS
  • Possibility to ignores file access rights on NTFS
  • International file names
  • Long file names
  • Folders and subfolders
  • Virtual drive and disk image support
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Advanced Disk Recovery Wizard Features

Main Features

Years of perfection ensured that the highest technologies made their way to Disk Recovery Wizard. Thanks to the proprietary low-level disk recovery engine, Disk Recovery Wizard will help you get your data back in the safest and most reliable manner possible.

  • PowerSearch for in-depth recovery
  • Live Preview supports 250+ formats and works in full and free versions
  • Recovered files can be saved to another disk, burned to CD or DVD, uploaded to FTP or saved to a network location
  • Explorer-like user interface with easy recovery wizard make information recovery safe, fast and easy

Disk Recovery Wizard Can:

  • Recover files and folders from healthy, corrupted and inaccessible disks
  • Recover information from hard disks, SSD, USB drives and memory cards
  • Undelete deleted files and documents
  • Scan the entire disk to discover lost or deleted partitions automatically
  • Recover files from damaged and inaccessible disks
  • Restore information from the disks after a system failure
  • Save data from a formatted drive (ext2, ext3, FAT and NTFS)
  • Recover latest versions of saved documents with PowerSearch
  • Recover digital pictures with PowerSearch
  • Undelete files removed from Windows Recycle Bin

PowerSearch Technology

The PowerSearch technology performs the most comprehensive analysis of your disk in order to locate every last file that can be recovered. PowerSearch locates the files by matching the contents of the sectors on your hard disk against a list of signatures that are specific to certain file formats. For example, RAR archives always start with “Rar!” while ZIP archives start with “PK”.

PowerSearch is able to detect and recover files in hundreds of different formats.

Office Documents

  • All Microsoft Office formats, including RTF, DOC, XLS, DOCX, PPT, MSG, and many more
  • OpenOffice documents
  • Adobe PDF and other formats
  • Plain text files, HTML, PHP and other text formats

Archives

  • ZIP, 7Z
  • RAR
  • CAB
  • TAR and many more…

Digital Pictures

  • JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP and many more popular image formats
  • AI, EMF, WMF and other vector images
  • CRW, CR2, RAW, DNG, NEF, and many more RAW file formats produces by digital SLR cameras

Music and Movies

  • MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA and other audio files
  • AVI, WMV, MPEG, MPG, DIVX and many more video formats

Compatibility

Years of constant development made Disk Recovery Wizard to be one of the most compatible disk recovery tools on the market. Supporting a variety of media storage formats and a number of file systems, Disk Recovery Wizard can gracefully handle any situation. Currently, Disk Recovery Wizard supports:

  • Remote recovery over the network
  • Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003/2008 Server, Vista, Windows 7
  • NTFS, NTFS 4, NTFS 5
  • FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT
  • ext2, ext3
  • Native RAID and Dynamic Disks

Flash memory cards can fail as often as or more frequently than hard drives. Disk Recovery Wizard supports the following storage media:

  • Hard drives (magnetic and SSD)
  • Digital cameras (point-and-shoot and DSLR)
  • Floppy disks
  • Zip Disks
  • Jaz Disks
  • Smart Media Cards
  • Sony Memory Sticks
  • Compact Flash cards
  • MicroDrives
  • Secure Digital Cards
  • xD Picture Cards
  • Flash Cards
  • PC Cards
  • Multimedia Cards
  • External USB disks
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Disk Recovery Wizard

Easy Disk Recovery

Deleted files or experienced a hard drive failure? Can’t access a disk or memory card? Desperate to get your files back and considering a data recovery service? Save time and money and perform the recovery yourself! You are perfectly able to handle the job when armed with a proper tool. Disk Recovery Wizard makes it simple to everyone and their mom to recover data from corrupted hard drives and restoring information from damaged disks and partitions even if Windows can’t see or access them!

Disk Recovery Wizard Can:

  • Recover files and folders from healthy, corrupted and inaccessible disks
  • Recover information from hard disks, SSD, USB drives and memory cards
  • Undelete deleted files and documents
  • Scan the entire disk to discover lost or deleted partitions automatically
  • Recover files from damaged and inaccessible disks
  • Restore information from the disks after a system failure
  • Save data from a formatted drive (ext2, ext3, FAT and NTFS)
  • Recover latest versions of saved documents with PowerSearch
  • Recover digital pictures with PowerSearch
  • Undelete files removed from Windows Recycle Bin

Is It That Easy?

It’s been easy since we introduced the tool, but became even easier with the last iteration of the product. All you have to do to recover your disk and data completely is pointing a finger at the corrupted device, and clicking “Next”! Disk Recovery Wizard makes the complex process of disk recovery appear extremely simple to you, the user. No matter what version of Windows you were using and what file system (FAT or NTFS) your disk had, Disk Recovery Wizard will carefully scan the damaged drive to locate all partitions and recover your files and data.

Is It Guaranteed?

Anyone who “guarantees” data recovery is not telling the whole truth. Sorry if that’s not what you wanted to hear. Yet, with Disk Recovery Wizard we come darn close to giving you a 100% guarantee! Scan the disk and click on any file. If you see a preview of that file – yes, we’ll guarantee that this particular file is fully, completely, 100% recoverable! With support for more than 250 formats, Live Preview is more than just a preview. It has become a powerful data recovery tool helping you decide what’s recoverable and what you want to recover.

Our signature Live Preview feature works even in the free edition. The Disk Recovery Wizard implementation of Live Preview not only displays a full-size preview of documents, pictures, archives and multimedia files, but does it carefully enough not to do any damage to the original file or disk. Live Preview does not write anything onto the damaged disk, or any disk if that matters; instead, it stores the recoverable file in the computer’s RAM memory. While Live Preview is no snake oil, it does guarantee successful recovery provided that you see the preview.

Can I Fix Inaccessible Disks?

Of course! Disk Recovery Wizard only seems simple, but features complex disk recovery technologies under the hood that took us years to perfect. If you want technical jargon, click here for the complete list of advanced Disk Recovery Features.

Can I Recover SSD drives and Memory Cards?

Yes. Disk Recovery Wizard recovers files and data from just about any type of storage media. Hard disks are supported along with all types of flash memory cards, including, but not limited to, SD, MMC, CompactFlash, SONY Memory Stick, xD, USB dongles, external hard drives, and even digital cameras connected via USB! And yes, SSD drives are also supported – as long as your data is still there, we’ll recover it with no sweat.

Can I Recover Deleted Files?

Undeleting freshly deleted files is an easy task for tool much simpler than Disk Recovery Wizard, but we just can’t work hands down! Unlike the free ‘undelete’ tools you may find floating over the net, Disk Recovery Wizard does not limit its search for deleted files with the file system. Instead, it scans your entire hard drive or memory card sector by sector to locate every file that could possibly be recovered. The proprietary PowerSearch technology uses antivirus-like scanner engine to discover a variety of popular document, archive and picture formats, allowing you to save files that were lost ages ago!

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Undelete Wizard

Free Preview

You can preview deleted files with the free version of Undelete Wizard. The Live Preview feature shows you the content of deleted documents and pictures the way they were intended to be viewed. No crippled HEX previews that make it difficult to judge the health of the file! You’ll see a Word documents as it’d show up in Microsoft Word, and a picture as it would appear in an image viewer. If you can view a deleted file, Undelete Wizard can guarantee the recovery.

Undelete Wizard Can:

  • Recover files from disabled or emptied Recycle Bin
  • Undelete files deleted with [Shift]+[Delete]
  • Restore files deleted a long time ago
  • Recover documents saved in multiple versions
  • Undelete partially overwritten and corrupted documents
  • Recover digital pictures from corrupted memory cards or directly from digital cameras
  • Undelete RAW images shot with digital SLR
  • Recover files and folders deleted or corrupted by a virus
  • Recover files from disks with bad sectors
  • Restore information from disks with corrupted file systems
  • Access and recover files from damaged and inaccessible hard drives

 

Undelete Files Easily with a Wizard

Empty or disabled Recycle Bin? Deleted files a while ago? Can’t download files from a flash memory card? Undelete Wizard recovers deleted and inaccessible files quickly and reliably in a few easy steps!

The Convenience of Windows Explorer

Undelete Wizard makes it simple to choose files to preview or to recover. Featuring the convenient Explorer-like interface, the tool presents Windows users a familiar experience, making even new users feel immediately at home.

The Undelete Wizard

Designed to be completely accessible and easily usable, Undelete Wizard features a convenient, step-by-step user interface that makes file recovery extremely simple. Simply run Undelete Wizard and choose a disk to begin. Wait a few moments, choose files to undelete from an Explorer-like window, and click Finish to complete the recovery. It is really that easy!

Advanced Technologies

Undelete Wizard is not just easy to use, but features sophisticated technologies to ensure the best results. The PowerSearch technology integrates years of research, enabling surefooted recovery under the most difficult circumstances. The innovative data recovery technology scans both the file system the hard drive in order to locate deleted files that are no longer shown in the file system. If the file system is corrupted or unavailable, as in a re-formatted hard drive, PowerSearch is the only technology that is still able to locate and recover certain types of documents.

By using a wide and growing list of signatures to detect files such as Microsoft Office documents, various digital pictures, ZIP and RAR archives, music and video files, PowerSearch makes it possible to locate and undelete files that were deleted ages ago. If you are working on a healthy hard drive, PowerSearch matches file system records to the real contents of your hard disk, presenting the most complete list of recoverable documents.

Undelete Documents

The PowerSearch technology allows Undelete Wizard to recover deleted documents in various formats. Microsoft Office files such as RTF, Word DOC and DOCX, Excel XLS and XLSX, PowerPoint PPT and many more; Adobe PDF, PageMaker and so on, over 50 different office formats in total.

Recover Digital Pictures

You can lose a bunch of digital pictures at once shall a flash memory card go bad. Recover digital images quickly and easily! Undelete Wizard scans the entire flash card block after block, locating and recovering every photo thanks to the PowerSearch technology. JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIFF, RAW, DNG, CR2, NEF and many more digital picture and RAW file formats are supported.

Undelete ZIP and RAR Archives

Deleted ZIP and RAR archives can contain multiple files, often making their recovery a top priority. Undelete Wizard locates and recovers the deleted archives with the PowerSearch technology.

Difficult Cases

Unlike free undelete software, Undelete Wizard can locate and recover files in various difficult situations. Deleted a file long ago? The PowerSearch technology can find the file on the hard disk by scanning the disk’s entire surface. Reformatted a disk? Undelete Wizard will locate and undelete all recoverable files. Damaged or corrupted flash memory card? Undelete Wizard retrieves digital pictures from corrupted cards quickly and automatically.

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Free Wipe Wizard Delete Files Securely

Military Grade Security

Free Wipe Wizard erases private and files and wipes sensitive information in a secure manner. We guarantee that the file erased with Free Wipe Wizard can never be recovered with any other tool. Even if your disk lands in the hands of F.B.I. your erased information remains inaccessible. The erased information will hold secure even if special methods are used to sense weak magnetic information off your hard disk surface!

Complete Data Security for Everyone

Free Wipe Wizard is fully functional and free of charge. The tool takes care of your files in a simple and efficient manner. Just run the tool, select a file to delete and click “Delete File” to wipe off its content forever. No data recovery tool can ever restore the contents of your file – guaranteed!

Why Are We So Confident?

Anyone can guarantee ‘complete confidentiality’ or ‘ultimate security’. The question is whether or not they are ready to back their claim. We are completely confident in our software because we used the US Government standard seven-pass wiping to overwrite your data in a theoretically proven, completely tested, cryptographically secure way. A cryptographically strong sequence of random numbers is generated for each wipe, making it absolutely impossible to access the erased information even if your hard drive is disassembled and viewed under an electronic microscope. Needless to say that any software tools for data recovery will pass on data deleted with Free Wipe Wizard.

Proper Implementation

Not all implementations of secure file delete are equal. Some are just using zeroes to wipe your data, and some are using weak random key generators. While these tools defeat software-based data recovery utilities, they fail to provide the ultimate data security that only a proper tool can guarantee.

Free Wipe Wizard is based on a cryptographically strong open-source code, and is distributed with GNU General Public License.

Compatibility

  • Free Wipe Wizard supports NTFS, NTFS 4, NTFS 5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems.
  • Free Wipe Wizard supports Microsoft® Windows® 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, and Vista.
  • Free Wipe Wizard supports hard drives (HDD), digital cameras, floppy disks, Zip disks, Jaz disks, Smart Media Cards, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, MicroDrives, Secure Digital Cards, xD Picture Cards, Flash cards, PC Cards, Multimedia Cards, and any USB disks.
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PowerSearch Complete File Recovery

The PowerSearch technology recovers more than a hundred types of files located on damaged, formatted or repartitioned disks. Developed to preserve and recover your most precious data, PowerSearch supports files you value most such as compressed archives, Office documents, spreadsheets, presentations, family photos and multimedia files. PowerSearch is designed to take advantage of every chance to recover your data, no matter how slim the chance might be. The technology is constantly evolving, adding support for more file formats all the time. Today, PowerSearch can recover more than 170 types of files.

PowerSearch Benefits

PowerSearch is designed to detect the exact physical location of lost and deleted files in cases when the file system can no longer help. Working in extreme conditions, PowerSearch helps recover files in cases of severe damage to disks and their system structures.

Normally, data recovery tools rely on the file system to contain information on files that were deleted or lost after a disk failure. If, however, the disk gets reformatted, repartitioned, or simply damaged beyond reasonable repair, the remaining of the file system cannot help locate any files.

PowerSearch employs the complete scan and analysis of the hard disk in order to locate certain types of documents (over 170 in its current implementation). Technically, PowerSearch reads the entire surface of the disk sector by sector, analyzing data in order to detect signatures characteristic to known types of files. For example, JPEG files contain the ‘JFIF’ signature in their headers, and are therefore easy to detect. After detecting the beginning of a file, PowerSearch makes its best to obtain information about the file’s name and the exact length of the file in order to recover the file in as close a condition to the original as possible.

Supported File Formats

WizardRecovery constantly updates the PowerSearch technology. Currently, the technology recognizes over 170 types of files.

Office Documents

PowerSearch locates and recovers documents such as those saved by Microsoft Office 95-2007, StarOffice and OpenOffice. This also includes RTF and HTML files, Adobe PageMaker and PDF files. If Microsoft Office documents are damaged of partially overwritten, PowerSearch attempts to repair them on-the-fly. You don’t need Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or StarOffice to be installed in order to recover office documents with PowerSearch.

Email, Text and Databases

PowerSearch recovers email databases used by Microsoft Outlook Express, and recognizes many databases formats such as dBase, MS Access and Works.

Images and Digital Pictures

PowerSearch recovers many types of pictures and digital images, including TIFF, TIF, NEF, PEF, X3F, JPEG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, GIF, TGA and many others. The technology can also recover vector and 3D images such as AI, VSD, SWF, and MAX.

Digital SLR RAW Files

The technology allows dSLR users to take advantage of its full support of the various RAW formats. PowerSearch supports RAW files produced by Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax and Sony, including CRW, CR2, RAW, NEF, and PEF.

Compressed Archives

PowerSearch recovers compressed archives, including 7Zip, ZIP, TAR, RAR and CAB files.

Multimedia Files

The technology recovers movies in videos in many popular formats, including AVI, VOB, MPG, MOV, WMV, and Blue-ray M2TS. PowerSearch does not need any codecs to be installed in order to recover these types of files.

Music and Audio Files

PowerSearch recovers audio files and music in MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, OGG, WV, RA, RM, VQF, MID, and VOC formats. The technology does not need any codecs to be installed in order to recover these types of files.

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Previewing Files Before Recovery

The LivePreview technology allows users of both free and registered versions of data recovery products by WizardRecovery to preview files and documents being recovered – before actually recovering them. LivePreview supports a number of file formats such as documents created with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice, images and digital pictures, including RAW files, movies and music. The technology displays images, open documents and plays back audio and video clips without writing anything onto the hard disk. LivePreview can even enter ZIP and RAR archives to show what’s inside!

If a file is corrupted or partially overwritten, LivePreview instantly repairs the file before displaying it on the screen.

LivePreview Benefits

First and most obvious, LivePreview allows seeing whether or not a file is actually recoverable. If you can see a preview of a file, you can definitely recover it. Working in both free and registered editions of all WizardRecovery products, LivePreview makes your purchase decision much easier.

Working with files such as Office documents means there are multiple versions of them as a result of multiple saves. Choosing the right version among the clutter of different versions is easy thanks to LivePreview. The technology displays all versions of each document, allowing you to choose the latest one among multiple files with the same name.

Windows can always choose to use free space made available by deleting a file to store another file. This way, deleted files start to overlap, occupying the same physical space on the disk. It is essential to recover the only right copy of each file; if you save the wrong one onto the same disk that contains the original deleted file, your chances of recovering the right one after that are slim. LivePreview lets you pick the right file by showing its full preview. If you see garbage instead of proper content, simply move along to the next file!

Supported File Formats

WizardRecovery constantly updates the LivePreview technology. Currently, LivePreview supports over 150 different types of files.

Office Documents

LivePreview displays previews of documents saved by Microsoft Office 95-2007, StarOffice and OpenOffice. LivePreview automatically repairs Microsoft Office documents that are corrupted or partially overwritten. The technology does not require Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or StarOffice installation.

Images and Digital Pictures

LivePreview can preview pictures and images in TIFF, TIF, NEF, PEF, X3F, JPEG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, GIF, TGA and other popular formats.

RAW Files

The technology fully supports RAW files produced by digital SLRs manufactured by Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax and Sony. CRW, CR2, RAW, NEF, PEF, as well as many other RAW file formats are supported.

ZIP and RAR Archives

LivePreview can enter ZIP and RAR archives, listing and previewing compressed files without saving them first.

Video Clips and Movies

Many popular video and animation formats are supported by the built-in media player. LivePreview can play back deleted AVI, VOB, MPG, WMV, and even the newest high-definition Blue-ray video clips. The technology does not require any external codecs to be installed in order to play back video clips.

Music and Audio Clips

The built-in media player plays back audio clips and tunes in MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, OGG, WV, RA, RM, VQF, MID, and VOC formats. LivePreview is fully multithreaded, allowing you to play back deleted music while recovering other types of files.

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