Disk recovery and file undelete made easy with a step-by-step wizard. Disk Recovery Wizard makes data recovery easily possible to anyone, and recovers damaged, corrupted and inaccessible disks even if you the hard drive has been reformatted or repartitioned.

Pros: Disk Recovery Wizard makes data recovery from disks that have corrupted data or are inaccessible due to Windows crash. This Wizard lets anyone, including novices to recover damaged, corrupted and inaccessible disks even when it may have been reformatted multiple times. Selecting the drive and clicking “next” starts the automatic process of recovery. The data recovery algorithms that do the recovery works autonomously to give the user recovered data without him straining too much.

Disk Recovery Wizard recovers disks and partitions, files and data no matter what file system or media you used to store the files. FAT or NTFS, hard drives or memory cards are non-issues for Disk Recovery Wizard. RAID arrays and Dynamic Disks are supported along with exotic USB dongles and solid-state devices.

The search technology used is able to find a number of files in a variety of formats that were deleted long time ago even. The formats include ZIP and RAR archives, Office documents, digital pictures, music and video files etc. Even when initial scan cannot locate a file, the search tries to match document format signature to reconstruct data. It maintains a database or such signatures. The technique helps recover not only documents but partitions, master boot records, undelete deleted files, recover deleted pictures as well as recover the recycle bin. MS documents including RTF, DOC, XLS, DOCX, PPT, MSG, and many more, Open office documents, PDF files and plain text, HTML, PHP and other text formats are recoverable by the Wizard. The application handles all other drive types including memory cards.

Cons: How effective these algorithms are determined by how well actual recovery happens. That can only be gathered from large amount of use data. User feedback should prove useful.

Overall a very good 3 star rating is deserved by the application.