We’ve all had those awful moments that cause premature hair loss: You select a file and press Shift Delete to remove it permanently . . . then realise you’ve accidentally killed a vital document. Sometimes, if you already have an undelete program installed, you can recover the erased file. Sometimes.
Now Diskeeper Corporation has unveiled Undelete 2009, and the latest iteration of its widely used file retriever software features several enhancements over earlier versions. In addition to being able to restore files deleted before the program was even installed on your PC, it can rescue data deleted from removable media, including memory sticks and digital cameras.
The home user’s version works only with 32-bit versions of Windows, but the Pro version also supports 64-bit flavours.
And for the user worried about someone else retrieving files deliberately consigned to oblivion, Undelete has a SecureDelete function that puts sensitive deleted files pretty much beyond recovery except by a forensic boffin.
Undelete works with NTFS and both 16 and 32-bit FAT file systems, and runs on all versions of Widows from 2000, including Vista. It supports logical partitions, primary partitions, RAID arrays, and SAN-attached volumes.
Also in Undelete’s repertoire of tricks is the ability to retrieve across networks and to recover Word, Excel or PowerPoint files overwritten by later versions of a document.
Diskeeper don’t do hair restorer, but if they did . . .
Cliff Hutton
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