One of the main reasons for my absence was a catastrophic event, one that we talked about here more than once – my hard drive’s failure. Since I am no hypocrite and I do all the things that I advise you to do, I had a nice backup archive of my vital data on a USB stick. Unfortunately, bad luck comes in large packages, and that backup archive was corrupted beyond any chance of recovery. The happy ending of the whole story should be written in a few days, when I’ll go retrieve my old data from that drive, sent for recovery to a specialized lab…
… but it surely won’t be a happy ending from the financial point of view, since the electronic board was fried, and the firmware corrupted. Anyway, if you happen to go through data losses that don’t involve hardware failures, most chances are you’ll be able to recover everything with low costs or no costs at all, especially since I just got good news from EASEUS – their Data Recovery Wizard software, a very popular data recovery tool worth $69.95, is now freely available for a limited period!!!
After a quick download and installation of the program, I can say that I really love this program. To be honest to the end, I also have to add that I wouldn’t pay almost $70 for it, but since it’s freely available, you should hurry up and get it while you can!
According to the official press release, EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard “Works well under Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista, it supports recovery of lost files from hard drive, USB external hard drive, memory card, memory stick, camera card, SD card, Zip or other storage media.” Speaking for myself, I must say I love the ease of use, the clear interface, and the ability to create a backup image of your entire hard drive. Sweet! 
If you’re looking for a free data recovery software for your Windows system, then stop wasting time and get EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard from here! Since the official page claims this software runs under Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista, it would also be nice to hear some thoughts from people who installed it on Windows 7. I would do that for you, but my Windows 7 laptop should arrive next week…
Oh, yeah, one more thing – big thanks fly to Eva Sun from EASEUS for sending us the precious info about this giveaway!
You will have a better opportunity: We are going to give away our Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Compact this weekend (Jan 29-31) . It’s the strongest backup solution. Watch our Free Downloads portal here and don’t miss it 
R3Cover(tm) data recovery software works on all versions of Windows including Windows 7, there is also a MAC version.
Both are free trials and are safe to use http://www.r3cover.com
Never install any software on the drive needing recovery, and always save recovered files to a differrent physical storage device to prevent risk of corrupting the data needing to be recovered.