Crashed Hard Drive Recovery Software

Review by CurtJC: I did not realise portions of my backups were corrupt until I performed a restore of my data. By this time, I had formated my drive, installed XP, my virus scanner and firewall. I was in a fix. I tried several demo recovery programs; they found the the deleted files alright, but after recovering them I would have to rename them... There were hundreds of files. Plus I would have to recreate the directory structure. It's a little difficult to guess the file names that the video editing program gave to all those avi files, not to mention mp3s, jpegs, etc. Restorer2000 does not take days to scan your hard drive. Restorer2000 not only displayed the full name, it recreated most of the folder structure as well. Over 95% of the files recovered... (5/5 - 12-Oct-2005)

Review by lostshoe: It cleans the registry, finds junk files, etc. It is rather expensive however, but I would say the free trial is worth it, just for cleaning the registry and finding junk files. There are ways around the 30-day trial, but I'm pretty sure we can't discuss that here (arrr matey). (4/5 - 19-Mar-2005)