If you have ever deleted a file by accident or had a corrupt drive, this software could save your backside. Like most windowsdeals software I doubt it does upgrades, but hey it's file recovery and it free. I'm not sure if it's windows 8 friendly or not. I'm not running windows 8 so I could not try it. Someone might be kind enough to see and comment.
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Deleted files or experienced a hard drive failure? Can’t access a disk or memory card? Desperate to get your files back and considering a data recovery service?
Save time and money and perform the recovery yourself! You are perfectly able to handle the job when armed with a proper tool.
Disk Recovery Wizard makes it simple to everyone and their mom to recover data from corrupted hard drives and restoring information from damaged disks and partitions even if Windows can’t see or access them!
Disk Recovery Wizard Can:
-Recover files and folders from healthy, corrupted and inaccessible disks
-Recover information from hard disks, SSD, USB drives and memory cards
-Undelete deleted files and documents
-Scan the entire disk to discover lost or deleted partitions automatically
-Recover files from damaged and inaccessible disks
-Restore information from the disks after a system failure
-Save data from a formatted drive (ext2, ext3, FAT and NTFS)
-Recover latest versions of saved documents with PowerSearch
-Recover digital pictures with PowerSearch
-Undelete files removed from Windows Recycle Bin
Does this have any advantages over using Spinrite (apart from being free ?)