Whether you're hard disk partition disappeared or you've just accidentally deleted some pictures from your digital camera, these three software tools can make your day. Of course, prevention (in this case read "backup") is the best medicine when it comes to lost files, whether as a result of disk malfunctions or your mistakenly deleting them. But for those of us with less foresight, there's utility software that can save our skins when it comes disappeared files. Today, we investigate three leading software products that claim to be able to find and recover files you've deleted or lost to a bad disk drive or media: iolo technologies' Search and Recover 4, Executive Software's Undelete 5, and Digital Photo Recovery 2.0.3 from Galaxy.

Even here in the ExtremeTech fold, we have experienced our share of lost work from hard disk failure. Check out our own Jeremy Atkinson's experience and eventual unleashing of destructive force on a disk that failed to preserve a review he was writing.

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