O&O DiskRecovery Professional Edition Editor's Review

Rescue data from your hard drive with this awesome Windows based utility.

While backing up your information is important, you have to keep your information in order to back it up.  Sometimes things get deleted or disappear and THEN what do you do? This is why I like tools like O&O Disk Recovery Personal Edition. It’s a file recovery utility for Windows.

O&O Disk Recovery Personal Edition helps you fescue or recover lost personal data such as pictures, documents and videos – quickly and reliably. It searches for and reconstructs deleted or lost data. The app's easy to use wizard guides you through the step-by-step process of data rescue. It supports all popular file formats and scans every sector of your hard drive, memory card or digital camera for lost files. O&O DiskRecovery can find and recover data even in the most extreme situations, such as with already formatted or destroyed file systems.

The application can recover an unlimited number of files, even on very large drives.  It can even recover data from formatted or structurally damaged partitions. You can also preview files prior to recovering them to insure that you have the right one.  The best thing about O&O Disk Recovery Personal Edition, is that it supports all types of Windows compatible volumes, including external, flash media as well as digital cameras and MP3 players. If Windows sees it as a drive, you can recover data from it.

Pro’s: Easy to use, Recovers data from extreme loss situations, supports all Windows compatible media

Con’s: Expensive

Conclusion: Recovering lost data isn't easy, and isn't always successful. If the area of your drive where missing data originally resided has been overwritten with new data, your data may not be recoverable.  As such, its important to install O&O DiskRecovery as soon as possible. In case of emergency, instant installation is possible and can be run directly from a removable drive.