PhotoRec is a software package designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks (HDD) and CDRom and importantly lost pictures from digital camera memory. By ignoring the recorded file system and examining the structure of the underlying data, PhotoRec will work even the media’s file system has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

PhotoRec is a free, open source, multi-platform software application and is distributed under GNU Public License.

Naturally, once data or image files are found missing it also Important not to save any further data to the storage media as it may overwrite the missing data. To ensure no further damage PhotoRec has only read-only access to handle the damaged storage media data is to be recovered from. When files are recovered they much be saved to a different partition or drive. (read more..)

DataNumen Inc., has released Advanced Outlook Repair 1.4 for recovery of Microsoft Outlook (97 and up) content. Advanced Outlook Repair scans the damaged Outlook .pst (personal folder) file, recovers mail messages and other data you keep in your Outlook client.

Advanced Outlook Repair enables users to recover almost any piece of information stored in Microsoft Outlook, including mail messages, folders, appointments, meeting requests, contacts, tasks, journals, and notes. The mail properties, such as subject, message body, to, from, cc, bcc, date, etc., are recovered too. The software can also recover mail attachments and embedded objects. Large PST files (up to 17179869184 Gb), can be split into several small files. Encrypted and password protected PST files can be recovered without the password.

Advanced Outlook Repair 1.4 is compatible with all 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and supports Microsoft Outlook 97, 98, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007. A free evaluation copy is available.

Recovery tasks supported by Advanced Outlook Repair: