Free data restoration software for windows

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Salvation Scan and Restoration Program is developed by Salvation HDD Research Center, the world-famous HDD repair and data recovery research institute which developed numerous professional HDD repair and data recovery software.
This program is the only one known professional program which can scan HDD over 136 G directly that need not the support of computer mainboard with high speed. It can utmost afford 2000 G HDD in theory, supports IDE interface only, no SATA or SCSI ones at the present;
A breakthrough of this program is that, without depending on BIOS, it can control read and write to the HDD directly, with high-speed, veracity, friendly interface and simple management; there will be an intuitionistic and intact report for the physical defective sectors created after the scanning.
The continual defective sectors can be easily skipped; therefore the defective HDD will not get stuck.
There is a ?Restorer? in this program which can restore the usual physical defective sectors.

Data Eraser is a permanent way to securely delete folders, files and free disk space Data Eraser is a permanent way to securely delete folders, files and free disk space.
Data Eraser completely implements the US Department of Defense DOD 5220.22 M clearing and sanitizing standard, to gives you confidence that once deleted, your data is gone forever and can not be recovered.
When you delete a file, the operating system does not delete file contents from the disk - it just mark the file as deleted in file allocation table, but the data of the file is still in your hard disk.
There are many tools available which can let anybody easily recover your sensitive files.. The file contents remains on disk until another file happens to overwrite it.
Advanced hardware recovery tools, may even restore overwritten files by analyzing latent magnetic traces. Even after the Recycle Bin has been emptied or the hard drive has been formatted, data can still be recovered unless it has been erased by a Data Eraser.
Data Eraser is one of the best security tools available for Windows. The program can quickly and securely wipe out files of any size in a matter of minutes.
Data Eraser prevents restoration of the old (already deleted) files at your disks. All free space at your hard disk will be wiped from old information. Nobody will ever be able to recover your files!
Main features:
- Uses the Pseudorandom Data and US DoD 5220-22.M methods.
- Erase Files and Folders.
- Erase Free Space
- Drag-and-drop support
- Shell integration

In some cases your would store data in XML file. With XMLDataEditor you are able to easily create end modify flat XML data files.