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for full recovery). Select the files/folders you want to recover, et voil!

Unfortunately, sometimes (depending on the file format) you might not be able to recover the data you were looking for. In this case, if you truly value your data, consider sending your hard drive to a company specialized in data recovery (just google 'data recovery', you'll be presented with, literally, thousands of options). Those guys are usually very good at their job and can sometimes even rebuild a single file from various segments or put a severely scratched cd or dvd in one single piece again.

If you have a Mac and don't want to live under the pressure of deleting something important and never be able to get it back, consider using the so-called 'Time Machine' technology. In the latest keynote, good old Steve Jobs introduced some interesting innovations, among which a wireless hard drive that can be setup as a backup unit: you don't have to worry about anything, because it's all done automatically and continuously, and if you have to look for a deleted file, just start Time Machine and search for the file name - most Mac users are already familiar with the process. The wireless backup unit are, at the time of writing, available in 500 GB and 1 TB format, which (uncommon in Apple pricing policy) isn't even that expensive, so it's probably an option to consider!

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A few useful links to recovery software.

For Windows:
http://www.recovermyfi les.com/
http://www.runtime.org /
http://un-delete.com/
http://w ww.quetek.com/

For Linux:
http://www.unistal.com/l inux-data-recovery.html
http:// www.stellarinfo.com/linux-data -recovery.htm
http://www.r-tt.c om/

For Mac:
http://www.dtidata.com/rec over_it_all_mac.htm
http://www. macintosh-data-recovery.com/
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