PhotoRec is one of the popular file and data recovery systems that are currently available. The idea behind the PhotoRec software is to try and recover any lost files. These files could be anything including videos and documents. They could be on places such as hard disks, CD-ROMS but it can also access lost pictures if the camera uses digital memory.

PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery is data recovery software, which supports NTFS and FAT 121632 file systems and can recover files in more than 20 popular file formats. The tool can retrieve lost data that has been accidentally deleted or damaged due to system failure, malicious viruses or other reasons; it recovers the files with their original time stamp even when the header entry is not available. PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery is capable of recovering lost data not only from hard drives, but also from memory sticks, USB flash, external disks, Smartmedia™ and other similar devices.

Paragon Drive Backup Express is a hard disk file backup solution that can provide complete and full backups of both your entire hard drive and individual partitions.

Recuva is a freeware Windows utility to recover files that have been deleted from a hard  drive, memory card or an MP3 player. Recuva is developed by Piriform, the same guys that made the famous CCleaner and Defraggler.