Media recovery is an extremely broad term as obviously there are so many different types of digital storage media. If we were to look back on the evolution of digital storage devices we would begin with examination of mid 1980s 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. For today’s media storage problems we can eliminate these first floppies as media recovery targets. The next generation of floppy disks were 3 1/2 inch 1.44 MB floppies. These are still in use today albeit there use being extremely limited. Most media recovery problems presented today deal with loss of files on such common devices as camera memory cards, compact flash cards and DVDs. As far as recovery of lost files on DVDs is concerned the basic procedure to recover those files is simply to the resurface the disk.
Using File Finder for media recovery concerns us with recovery of music files, pictures and documents. While many file recovery programs claimed to specialize in one of these areas or another File Finder was designed for basic file recovery of any file type such as JPEGs, DOCs and application files. If you are still using 3 1/2 inch floppies File Finder will also serve you very well as a floppy disk data recovery tool.
