Never say never, especially about recovering lost data

As computers become more important at our work, home, and school, so has data. Many times we consider the information we store on our PCs more crucial than actual physical objects. And why not, when the files we work with on the computer represent hours of hard work?

It's still amazing how many users take a flippant approach towards backing up important data—if they bother maintaining redundancies at all. The following software won't replace any good backup regime, but they do provide a chance that information lost through human or machine error won't be lost forever.