Disk Utilities and Ntfs Lost Files Recovery Software for Windows

Disk Checker
$19 - RS Software Lab

Disk Checker is a full-featured disk diagnostics and repairs tool with backup ability. This program runs under Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista. Disk Checker includes two separate methods of disk checking: using file-access or direct access to disk surface. The direct access method is much faster and is perfect for large number of small files. Disk Checker can report defective sectors numbers as well as the file name they belong to. Removable (floppy, ZIP, ORB, JAZZ, etc), hard and CD-ROM disks are supported when using direct access method (you must have administrator rights to perform hard drive checking under Windows NT/2000/XP). For above cases as well as for remote disks, RAM disks and network drives you can also use the file-access method. You can use this program for backup purposes as well. Disk Checker can create disk images compatible with disk image files produced by other disk copy utilities
(Diskcopy, WinImage, DiskDupe, etc). Disk image is a file that contains all the disk data, such as boot sector, files and folders structure. It is possible to read and write disk images and format disk, including burning CD-ROM image .ISO files. Command line, logging and dedicated item in Windows shell context menu are supported.

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My BootDisk
$25 - ZhangDuo Corporation International

My Boot Disk creates start-up disk with mouse support and dozens of system-repairing utilities, including boot-up fix, file extraction, drive partitioning, rapid installation, disk format, Attributes change, file deletion, file copy, disk scan and more. It installs Windows faster, troubleshoots varieties of boot or crash problems and discover potential file damage.

Windows NT technology based systems such as Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP will not be out of luck. My Boot Disk provides the solution of booting up Windows NT/2000/XP with only one floppy disk. This enables users to troubleshoot multiple operating system boot crash and boot files damage cases.

My Boot Disk creates both Boot Disk and Repair Disk. They are generally machine specific, i.e., they are made according to your system configuration.

One of the exciting functions of the software is to download standard Boot Disk from the Internet, which includes MS-DOS 5.00, MS-DOS 6.20, MS-DOS 6.21, MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 95 OEM, Windows 95B, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP. After download, you may insert your floppy disk and make it thereafter.

My Boot Disk also backup and restore system important files as well as important personal files including Outlook Express mails, Address Book and IE Favorites.

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Glary Utilities
$0 - Glarysoft

Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.

It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin them. Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder and more.

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Glary Utilities Pro
$39.95 - Glarysoft

Glary Utilities Pro offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.

It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin them. Furthermore, Glary Utilities Pro includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder and more.

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Acronis Power Utilities
$59.99 - Acronis

Acronis Power Utilities is comprehensive suite of PC system utilities that helps you to manage your computer and protect your privacy throughout computer's life. If you want to upgrade to a new hard disk, Acronis Migrate Easy helps you to install it and migrate all your computer data, operating systems and programs in minutes. With Acronis Disk Editor you can easily back up and restore critical hard drive sectors or edit contents of hard disk sectors. If your PC becomes unbootable after a power outage, a system error or virus attack, you can be back up and running instantly with Acronis Recovery Expert. It automatically recovers any deleted or lost partition with any file system even if your operating system fails to boot. To protect your personal privacy or Internet activities from Windows system traces and spyware use Acronis Privacy Expert Suite. It completely wipes any evidence of your work in Windows system or Internet, blocks pop-up windows, removes hidden spyware programs that collect and transmit to the Internet your personal data. When you are getting rid of an old PC or hard drive and want to destroy confidential data, Acronis Drive Cleanser guarantees the complete destruction of data on selected partitions and/or entire disks. It includes most known national data destruction standards.

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DiskInternals Word Recovery
$79.95 - DiskInternals Data Recovery

Most data recovery products offer recovering deleted or corrupted files and documents, and some tools promise recovery of crashed or damaged hard drives. Simpler products, such as free undelete utilities, deal with the file system. They scan the file system to locate records of files that are marked as deleted, and clear the mark. This fast and easy way to recover lost files only works sometimes, e.g. if you deleted a file just a minute ago. If your document has been deleted some time ago or overwritten with another file, chances of recovery with these tools are slim.

Other products deal with your hard drive directly. They are slow, expensive and extremely complex to use. They don't show the names of the deleted documents, let alone their content.

DiskInternals Word Recovery provides the best data recovery, offering unprecedented efficiency and dealing specifically with Microsoft Word documents. It scans the file system and learns about the files that were deleted, just as the free undelete tools. Then, it scans the hard drive directly to locate Microsoft Word documents that are not shown in the file system. It uses a list of file signatures such as .DOC and .RTF to detect the beginning and end of Word documents. This method works even if your hard drive is half dead!

DiskInternals Word Recovery synchronizes the results obtained with the scan of the file system with the results obtained by accessing the hard disk directly, presenting the complete list of recoverable Word documents along with their file names and contents, and yields the best ratio of recoverability.

Find and recover a specific document with 'On the Fly' filters that allow displaying files with specific title, created by specific author, that contain certain text or have certain size, or are last saved on a specific date. The free version allows full document preview to ensure that you recover exactly what you want, and that the complete document can be recovered with no errors.

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