Save My Files

This is more of a testimonial than anything, but here goes.  I lost access to files that I had stored on a USB connected harddrive.  Not exactly sure what happened, but the drive was discoverable not readable.  It kept asking me if I wanted to format the drive. 

Fortunately, I know enough not to do that.  So I went searching for a program that would hopefully recover my files, since the drive held minor things like my family’s pictures for the last year, and video and work files that I backed up.

I found File Scavenger on download.com.  Less than 5 minutes after discovering the program, I had it loaded and did a trial recovery.  The program in free mode only allows up to 64k in file size recovery.  That was enough to verify the program worked.  Needless to say, I paid my 45 bucks, a pitance when compared to file recovery firm prices and in less than a minute I recovered the 415 jpgs that were my family photos. 

So a picture like this one was saved.  BTW, that is my son in the front on the left wondering what is going on. 

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