Unfortunate events happen all the time, even in the world of computers. Your important files can get a virus or accidentally deleted.

Either way, you come to a point when you think to yourself "If I could turn back time..." (in the words of Cher)

Managing files can be a huge problem, especially when you don't have them backed up. The only solution here would be a software that could bring files back from the dead.

Fortunately, there are many such application out there, and one of them is RecoverMyFiles.

This small application for Windows has resurrection skills, and it almost never fails.

RecoverMyFiles can bring back deleted files (e.g. documents, images, video, archives, emails), even if they have been infected or permanently deleted from your Recycle Bin.

It's time like these you get doubts about Microsoft's promises to permanently delete files. A software couldn't just recover something from thin air, right? So traces that can be reconstructed must be hidden somewhere deep in your computer's brain.

Anyway, RecoverMyFiles can also recover files after a hard disk crash or partitioning error, from external local drives (e.g. camera card, USB), and restore formatted hard drives, "even if you have reinstalled Windows"... we didn't have the heart to try this out, but we'll let you do it.

On the smaller  files we have tested, RecoverMyFiles seemed to work pretty well. But if you choose to perform a complete format recovery... that could take some while.

Be careful not to open multiple instances (that's possible), because the overlapping may become harmful.

In general, the search time was pretty short. If you don't have the patience to see the whole drive scanned, then you can just cancel it.

It's a pity that you can't save recovered files in the trial version, just to see if they contain the actual content.

In conclusion, RecoverMyFiles is an interesting application to use, and it can even become addictive, but others like it are certainly stronger.