Last month my not so computer literate hubby hit the delete key, sending almost all of his mp3s to the recycling bin. Then somehow, he had managed to empty the bin instead of clicking restore files. *Sigh* He did what he does best, yelled for me to fix it before he threw the computer out the window. Seeing how I networked our comps together awhile back, all the music on his would be the stuff that I don't listen to. Awhile back I backed up all his cd's on his computer because he's horrible at scratching them, and I didn't want to go buy new copies every time he messed them up, so I would just burn him a copy. I even made a backup burned copy that I stuck in a cd case I thought he didn't know about just for times like these, but to my dismay, he had already found my backups and scratched them up as well, so my last resort was to try to recover his files.
I spent all day searching for a recovery program that would work, but I couldn't find a single shareware or freeware one that did the job right. Recovering mp3s is tough. I got the same results every time...a bunch of half chopped up files that weren't playable, so I finally gave up. A couple weeks later a friend told me about a program she used all the time called Multistage Recovery. She said it recovered mp3 files perfectly without screwing them up as well as almost any other file type, but I was too cheap at the time to drop $50 on something to do the job.
Then today, I was stumbling through my daily visited bookmarks, and guess what! Giveawayoftheday.com is giving away Multistage Recovery for free as their software giveaway today! I'm definitely grabbing it! Even if I don't recover my hubby's music, it would still be nice to use on an old hard drive I have from years ago. There's no telling what I could recover from my teeny bopper years!
I spent all day searching for a recovery program that would work, but I couldn't find a single shareware or freeware one that did the job right. Recovering mp3s is tough. I got the same results every time...a bunch of half chopped up files that weren't playable, so I finally gave up. A couple weeks later a friend told me about a program she used all the time called Multistage Recovery. She said it recovered mp3 files perfectly without screwing them up as well as almost any other file type, but I was too cheap at the time to drop $50 on something to do the job.
Then today, I was stumbling through my daily visited bookmarks, and guess what! Giveawayoftheday.com is giving away Multistage Recovery for free as their software giveaway today! I'm definitely grabbing it! Even if I don't recover my hubby's music, it would still be nice to use on an old hard drive I have from years ago. There's no telling what I could recover from my teeny bopper years!
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It's always handy to have software like that on hand.
Of course, if you know how to use it, you're probably not the one that will need it.
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