USB disks , memory cards and hard disks are very easy to use and operate . But they are very prone to accidental data loss and damage . The use of an online or offline backup solution would disasters associated with accidental data loss from hard disks . But memory card and USB disks usually contain files that we change frequently .Few of these  devices store data in magnetic medium and memory elements that we can recover using file recovery softwares .We earlier shared a method to get get full version of one such software , Iolo search and Recover . This promotional offer is no longer available  . So here we have few free alternative applications that could help you to recover deleted files from memory devices and hard drives.

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Nero is one of the most popular CD/DVD/Blue-Ray disc burning software in the market. Hardware manufacturers like Sony and LG ships an OEM edition of Nero with their CD/DVD/DVD drives. Nero is a good burning solution, but personally, we stopped using Nero from its version 6. After version 6, Nero became clogged with unwanted software, and now it has a design that is very complex to learn. Moreover, Windows 7 comes with DVD/data CD/Music CD burning options, so there isn’t any need of special burning software. Be that as it may, Nero recently released a free version of their burying software and is called Nero Essentials. It’s a limited rendition of Nero 9 software and supports basic disc burning operations.
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We usually encounter situations when CD and DVD media get scratched due to misuse and rough usage . But its will become necessary to recover files from these scratched CDs or DVDs in needy situations . Here we have collected few Windows softwares that can recover music ,programs and documents from scratched CD and DVD media . Most of them are sharewares ,but they have freeware versions too .Recovering files from scratched CDs and DVDs requires lot of time and efforts . So make sure that you have enough RAM (at least 1GB ) to speed up the entire process .

Usual CD or DVD software ignores the bad sectors and produce errors while copying files from them . Also they stop copying if they encounter any errors in between . So we might loose data from entire disk due to scratches in one or two portions .  These scratch recovery softwares reads all possible sectors from magnetic media of CD/DVD or USB disks  and arranges them together to recover files from scratched areas . Clean target CD/DVD file with spirit or any other safe solution and dry throughly before applying the recovery process .

CDcheck: CDheck utility can recover music ,video ,documents ,programs and other media from CD and DVD . CDheck application is free for home use . And for business users there is a small charge associated .

Insert the target CD/DVD/USB disk > click on recover and select the target location . All recovered files will be moved to the target folder after completion of operation .

Download CDcheck .

CD Recovery Toolbox : CD Recovery Toolbox is an excellent tools to recover files from scratched CD ,DVD ,HD DVD  and Blue-Ray disks . Its a completely free software with excellent user interface and a wizard driven operation . we can exactly target the required file from options and easily recover them to a suitable location .

Download CD Recovery Toolbox .

BadCopy Pro : BadCopy Pro is one best software tool to copy inaccessible files from non responding  CD and DVD disks . It can sometime be used to copy files from protected media disks too . Unfortunately its a shareware software ,but available as a limited trial version .  This 800 KB application is one of the most trusted application in CD- DVD file recovery .

First select the source > select the files to be recovered and the mode of recovery . Max speed option can be selected for disk with less errors .

Download BadCopy Pro and recover files from scratched CD ,DVD ,USB and Floppy disks .