Data Recovery Freeware - TestDisk

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery software! It was originally designed to assist in the recovery of lost partitions, repair corrupted partition table when these symptoms were caused by defective software, some types of viruses or human error (such as accidental erasure from the Table of Scores).
The interface is minimal (DOS) and you must be familiar with the situation. He does not need installation, and it will already be excavated in a directory to find. Exe to run. Note there are a large amount of documentation in HTML and it comes with photoRec to retrieve photos erased memories (works even on DD)

For the moment Vista is not yet supported.

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Get your Icons Back on Windows Vista

If you've removed your recycle bin icon or any other icons like Control Panel, My Computer etc…You can follow these step to get them back:

Go to Control Panel \ Personalize
Click the Change Desktop Icons link on the left hand side.

Now you just have to check the boxes for whichever icons you want back on the desktop.

 

Data Recovery - Recover Excel corrupted file

Recovery for Excel is a data recovery program for your corrupted MS Excel files up to Office 2007

 

Feel free to download the Demo and see if it works, we tried it for some files and get 30% of successes, but you can give it a try.

 

http://www.officerecovery.com/

 

 

What is data recovery?

Data recovery software has multiple motivations: the most common range from inadvertent human error, viruses or Police investigation. For example, in the Clearstream affair in France, a portion of the survey was based on data retrieved from the computer of General Rondeau.

The principle of data recovery is as follows: in general, operating systems cut all resources into pieces which they access through index. Thus, very roughly, an operating system, sees a hard drive like an encyclopedia, and the system will use the table of contents of the encyclopedia to quickly access a particular article according to the demands of the users. When the user requests the operating system to erase a structure (a file or a partition, for example), the operating system does not destroy the structure directly concerned. It merely changing the index. Thus, in the metaphor of the encyclopedia, ask the operating system to delete an item, the equivalent of removing the item from the table of contents. The article dropped, even if not included in the table of contents, however, is always there in the middle of the pages of the encyclopedia.

Data Recovery is a difficult task. Indeed, in the presence of backups - whether copies stored in the dustbin of Windows or any tool System Restore, it is beyond the scope of data recovery. In addition, operating systems are primarily designed to use resources effectively to ensure good performance. For example, the user can request the free space to the operating system (to add a new article in the encyclopedia, for example). In this case, the operating system can give pages corresponding to the item deleted the user wants to write a new article. As operating systems are designed primarily to ensure good performance, data recovery is at best an afterthought. It is significant that from version 5, the late MS-DOS provides two tools for data recovery ( "undelete" and "unformat"). Both tools were included in version 6 but were abandoned to the launch of Microsoft Windows 95.