The list of available data recovery utilities is almost endless. There are tools for finding lost digital photos, Microsoft Word documents and portable executables. Many companies divide Windows file recovery into retrieval of information from either NTFS formatted hard drives or 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 applications so as to be prepared to handle any type problem with lost or deleted files 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 what is stored. Software designed to find digital photos differs only in that it will disregard other types of information. Often programs built to rescue files from NTFS formatted hard drives are limited in that they cannot be used for simple compact flash drive undelete functions. FileFinder was designed as the ultimate general purpose data recovery tool. FileFinder supports retrieval of digital information in all of the situations explained above and hundreds more.
