During normal computer usage, deletion or corruption of files or drives can happen quite easily. When the data is no longer needed, this is an advantage, but when the information is required after all or is deleted by accident, users may have a serious problem at hand. Fortunately, software has been designed to recover this lost data, and Recover My Files is among the best available.

Users with this program don't have to stress out after discovering that important files have gone missing. As long as the files hasn't been overwritten, Recover My Files will hunt them down by their paths and bring them back to life. This makes for an invaluable safety net with utility in business as well as casual computing.

As a comprehensive, user-friendly application, Recover My Files is capable of finding and restoring more than 200 types of files on Windows systems. It does its job well after computer crashes, operating system installs or bad reformats. When data is lost due to more severe hard disk damage, users may need to use a more complex piece of recovery software.

Tests of Recovery My Files have shown that restoration of sample files was performed with little or no trouble. Previewing restores isn't as simple here as it is with similar programs, but it still does the job. The search functions are all superior in many ways, however, and users at all levels are likely to have success locating lost files with the application.

Recover My Files can even search for missing data on external hard drives, USB drives and camera cards. Perhaps the only things the program can't do are recovering data from unbootable machines and making backup disk images for later restoration. For general searching, restoring and problem-solving, however, Recover My Files does its job well.