Data Recovery Category
Free Computer Tuneup Tool – Smart PC Optimizer
Smart PC Optimizer is a Free Computer Tuneup Tool created by AnyLives. This program can be used to Speed up your PC. It works very quickly by optimizing your registry, clearing empty and invalid registry entries, removing temporary files “spam” and other junk from your browser and hard disk.
Free Undelete – File Recovery Software
Free Undelete is a file recovery tool created by Recoveronix Ltd that can be used to help restore or recover lost or deleted files from Fat12, Fat16, Fat32, or NTFS filesystems. Free Undelete is entirely freeware for personal use only. Business users must purchase a license. As with any recovery tool, you should stop disk activity and save recovered data to another disk, to prevent overwriting areas containing deleting file information.
Bleachbit – Portable System Cleaner
BleachBit is an Open Source Free Portable System Cleaner, optimization and privacy tool created by Andrew Ziem. It can be used to delete files and logs, clear Internet history, wipe cache, delete cookies, shred temporary files and more. Advanced features include the ability to shred files to prevent recovery, wipe free disk space to make deleted data unrecoverable, and “vacuuming Firefox to make it faster”.
Undelete 360 – Portable File Recovery Software
Undelete 360 is a Free Portable File Recovery Software Tool created by File Recovery Ltd. It can be used to undelete, recover, or restore files accidentally deleted from your computers hard drive, flash drives, external USB hard drives, camera, memory cards, and more. Undelete 360 displays the status of the deleted files to help determine if the files are fully recoverable.
OperaPassView – Recover Opera Passwords
Recover Passwords from Opera; OperaPassView is a Freeware Portable Opera Password Viewer created by NirSoft. As the name suggests, it can be used to View or Recover Login Passwords for Websites Stored in the Opera Web Browser. OperaPassView works by decrypting the information stored in the wand.dat file and displays the list of all Web site passwords stored within the file.
DiskDigger – Undelete Deleted Files
DiskDigger is a Free Portable Application that can be used to recover lost or deleted files, pictures and documents from Hard Drives, Compact Flash Media and USB Flash Drives. DiskDigger can even be used to recover data files from reformatted drives. It does not use Windows filesystem drivers to detect the device, so even if Windows doesn’t see the drive, DiskDigger may detect it. Recover BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, DOC, PDF, MP3, AVI, WMV, OGG etc files using this tool.
Double Driver – Driver Backup
Double Driver is a Free Driver Backup Utility that can be used to view all of the drivers installed on your computer and then Backup Drivers, Restore Drivers, Save Drivers or print a list of chosen drivers. Installed Driver details such as Setup Information, Hardware ID, Version, Date, Provider and Class are displayed and can be printed for reference.
Toucan – Backup, Synchronize, Encrypt
Toucan is an open source portable app that can be used to backup, synchronize and encrypt your data. Synchronizing options include copy, update, mirror and equalise. Backup and restore can be done using zip or 7-zip formats. Encrypt entire folder structures or files using AES-256 encryption via ccrypt.
TestDisk – Free Portable Data Recovery
TestDisk is a Free Portable Data Recovery Software tool. The tool was designed to help recover lost partitions and or make non bootable disks bootable again. TeskDisk is particularly useful when a system is not bootable because of a virus, software, or human error (accidentally deleting a Partition Table). This tool can fix a partition table, recover a deleted partition, rebuild or recover NTFS, FAT boot sectors, fix MFT, undelete and or copy files from NTFS, FAT, ext2, ext3 partitions. Backup recovery is also supported.
ADRC – Portable Data Recovery
ADRC is a Free Portable Data Recovery Software that can be stored and run directly from a USB device. The Free Data Recovery Tool uses a very simple GUI and offers it’s user the ability to undelete deleted files that may have been removed from the recycle bin. Moreover, ADRC contains features to allow it’s user to copy files from a disk with bad sectors, clone a disk and perform a disk image backup and or a disk image recovery.
SoftPerfect File Recovery
SoftPerfect offers a Free Portable File Recovery utility that can be used to restore deleted files from hard drives, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards, floppy disks an other types of storage media. The software supports recovery of files on devices formatted as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and even NTFS5 with compression and encryption.
Free Data Recovery Software
Free Data Recovery Software is Portable Data Recovery Software that can be used to quickly, easily and securely retrieve lost or deleted data from NTFS, Fat32 and Fat partitioned drives or devices. Free Data Recovery Software uses an advanced recovery algorithm for very fast scanning and recovery.
Unstoppable Copier – Corrupted File Recovery
Unstoppable Copier is a Free Portable tool that allows you to recover files from hard drives, flash drives, CDs/DVDs and other media disks that have physical damage or are starting to go bad. I.E (copy files from disks with bad sectors, CDs or DVD’s with scratches or drives that display read errors while accessing data). Unstoppable Copier is very intuitive and super easy to use. From intense data recovery to skipping damaged files completely, the data recovery level is fully adjustable.
Roadkils Undelete – Portable File Recovery
Roadkils Undelete is a Portable File Recovery tool that can be used to recover deleted files from your local and portable hard drives or flash drives. It can recover most files as long as the drive has not been reformatted. Undelete works on devices formatted using FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems and will run on Windows 9x/Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT systems.
MozBackup – Portable Firefox and Thunderbird Backup Tool
MozBackup is a Free tool that can be used to backup Firefox and Thunderbird profiles. It allows a user to backup and restore bookmarks, contacts, e-mail, history, addons and extensions, cache and much more. MozBackup also allows a user to restore these profile backups. This backup tool makes it easy to move your Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Porfiles and related information across multiple PC’s. This application requires roughly 1.26MB of free space for completely portable stand alone installation.
PC Inspector – Portable File Recovery Tool
PC Inspector is a portable file recovery program that supports reading both FAT and NTFS file systems. PC Inspector can find partitions and files within, even if the boot sector has been erased or damaged. You can then recover files using the original time and date stamp. PC Inspector even allows it’s user to save recovered files on network drives. This tool can also recover files, even if a header entry is no longer available. Most other recovery utilities cannot recover these files.
PhotoRec – Data Recovery
PhotRec is a Free Portable Data Recovery utility that can be used to recover files including video, pictures or photos (hence the PhotoRec name), documents and archived files from hard disks, removable storage devices and even CDs. It can recognize the header formats of supported file types and works even if the filesystem is severely damaged or has been formatted. PhotoRec requires roughly 5.71MB for complete portable installation.
Driver Backup – Portable Driver Backup Tool
DriverBackup is a nice driver backup tool that allows a user to create a backup of his or her hardware driver files. DriverBackup preserves drivers of your hardware peripherals by saving them into a user specified location. You can then quickly reinstall your system hardware drivers if need be from the saved location. This tool uses 212KB of disk space once extracted making it ideal for portable usage.
Portable Data Recovery
Data Recovery is software that allows you to easily recover lost and accidentally deleted files. It can even recover files that have been deleted from the recycle bin. Data Recovery supports FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS recovery including some compressed and encrypted files. The complete applications is less than 500k extracted, so it will fit on even the tiniest of USB thumb drives.
CCleaner – Portable System Cleaner
CCleaner is a Portable System Cleaner, system optimization and privacy tool that can help speed up Windows and free up valuable hard disk space. It can remove unused files from your system and further clean all traces of your personal online activities like your Internet browsing history, typed urls, cookies, index, dat files and much more. Best of all, it’s portable software, so you can bring it with you on a USB flash drive or other external device.
EasyCleaner – Windows Registry and File Cleaner
EasyCleaner is a tool that can be used to remove and delete old Windows temp, backup files and registry entries that are no longer being used by your computer. It can also be used to clear internet history, remove invalid shortcuts, add or remove software or manage startup programs. EasyCleaner is easy to navigate and use via a nice simple graphical interface and can be run portably from a USB flash device.
Restoration – Undelete or Recover Deleted Files
Restoration is a tiny yet simple portable utility that allows it’s user to restore or recover files that have been removed from Windows or deleted from the recycle bin. Restoration can also be used to recover lost pictures and other misc files from portable media such as USB flash drives, hard drives and compact flash cards typically used by most digital camera’s. Restoration contains “other” additional options that allow it’s user to make the deleted data non-recoverable.
DriverGrabber – Portable Driver Backup Utility
DriverGrabber is a tiny Utility that allows you to create a backup of all your important third party Windows system drivers. This tool can be useful for anyone that might need to reformat or reinstall Windows but doesn’t want to hunt down all of the necessary drivers at post install. DriverGrabber copies your computers third party system drivers to it’s own “Drivers” directory, making a backup that is easy to retrieve later.
IE PassView – Internet Explorer Password Recovery Tool
IE PassView is a tiny, easy to use utility that enables a user to reveal any passwords that might be stored by the Internet Explorer Web Browser. IE PassView has the ability to reveal or view and recover saved HTTP dialog box passwords, FTP login passwords, and Auto Complete form field login passwords. This program can be stored and run directly from portable USB device and currently works with all Internet Explorer versions up to 7.0. It’s a great tool for finding or recovering those passwords that may have been lost or forgotten.
Undelete Plus – Portable File Recovery Software
Undelete Plus is FREE portable file recovery software that allows it’s user to retrieve accidentally deleted files or “UnDelete Files“. Even files removed from the Recycle Bin, network drive, compact flash card or portable drives. Undelete Plus will work with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 operating systems. It can be used to recover deleted files from NTFS/NTFS5, FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 partitions.
HD Speed – Hard Drive Speed Testing
HD Speed is a portable utility that can measure the burst speed or sustained data transfer rates of your CD-DVD roms, hard disks, and floppy drives. HD Speed presents this data via a nice clean and simple GUI. This application can be installed to and run directly from a portable device such as a USB flash pen drive.
Recuva – Portable File Recovery Tool
Recuva is a free portable file recovery tool that can be installed to and run directly from a portable USB device. Recuva enables the user to recover deleted files, including those deleted from a hard drive, flash card, mp3 player, recycle bin and more. After reviewing and using recuva, we highly value and strongly recommended adding this great tool to your portable collection.
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RockXP – Recover lost XP keys and Passwords
RockXP is a Freeware application that allows you to recover your Windows XP product key or activation code along with keys for other Microsoft products. This is very useful if you need to reinstall a microsoft product. Additionally, you can recover lost usernames and passwords, MSN logins, Internet connection parameters etc. It’s a must have tool for your USB portable storage device. RockXP is under 770kb.