The list of available data recovery utilities is almost endless. There are tools for recovery of digital photos, Microsoft Word documents and portable executables. Many companies divide Windows file recovery into recovery of files from NTFS formatted hard drives and the earlier FAT format. There are programs for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and the new Windows 7. Some data recovery utilities claim to offer super fast scanning as their benefit. Others extol the value of slow and thorough scans.
If one were to purchase each of these data recovery tools so as to be prepared to handle any type of data recovery problem the total cost would be over $2000. This is almost comical because any and all of these programs can do exactly the same thing. They search through your computer’s hard drive or any digital storage device connected to your computer and return to you a list of files stored. Programs designed for digital photo recovery differ only in that they disregard other file types. Often programs built to rescue files from NTFS formatted hard drives are limited in that they cannot be used for simple compact flash drive file recovery. File Finder was designed as the ultimate general purpose data recovery tool. File Finder supports all of the file recovery situations explained above and hundreds more.
