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Lifehacker Lists Top Five Free Data Recovery Tools For Windows/Mac/Linux

Jack Loftus — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:30:00 EDT

More weekly Sunday goodness from Lifehacker. Last week we brought you their list of the top malware removers, and this week it's a fine top five list of free data recovery tools. [Lifehacker]

Staples Offers Seagate Data Recovery Service in all Stores

Sean Fallon — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:00:35 EST

According to Informationweek and Computerworld, Segate has inked a deal with Staples that will bring data recovery services to all of the retail chain's 1400 stores. The deal will allow users to reclaim their lost data from any type of digital media, regardless of brand or condition. After a free evaluation, the experts will determine whether or not the data can be salvaged and what fee should be charged for its recovery.

The data recovery will be done on site unless the problem is particularly tricky — in that case the device would be sent to the Seagate lab. Turnaround times are expected to be 3-5 days for smaller devices and a week for large devices. The recovered data will be presented to the customer on a Seagate USB device, or a 6GB Seagate pocket drive depending on the amount of data recovered. In the event that the process fails, the customer will not be charged.

The Staples / Segate partnership definitely sounds like a great option for anyone who isn't in the habit of backing up their vast porn collections. However, until more pricing information is made available, it is hard to tell whether this presents a cheaper alternative to other services out there —although it had damn well better be a better option than the f'ng Geek Squad. [Informationweek and Computerworld]

Deleted Photos? Bring Them Back

Charlie White — Wed, 03 May 2006 12:44:05 EDT

If you've accidentally deleted digital photos from a memory card, there's a way to bring them back to life. Our company cousins at Lifehacker point us to a solution that involves PC Inspector Smart Recovery from Convar, free downloadable software that dredges up those deleted images from the depths of hell and delivers them right to your hard drive. So stop, don't take any more pictures, grab that software and bring those lost pics back from the dead.

Resurrect deleted photos from your digital camera's memory card [lifehacker]