How many times has it happened that you have deleted a file from your computer and repented after you deleted it from the recycling bin ? In our tutorial about data recovery today, we will show you how you can recover data from your hard drive, camera, Flash Drive, Zip drive, USB drives, SD Card, iphone or itouch using a free software. This software Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.) and it has a very simple and easy to use point and click interface. It supports Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems and recovers all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything. Best of all, it can be run just from a USB stick!

It is extremely easy and very fast to run. Our setup involved recovering data off a Windows XP machine from its C: drive, but your setup can be different on another operating system. You can also run this utility from a USB thumb drive if you wanted to. So lets get started with our tutorial for data recovery on a computer's C: drive

Step1:
Go to http://www.piriform.com/recuva and click on the download button to download Recuva software

Step2:
Start setup by double clicking on the rcsetup135.exe file and then choosing English as Language

Step3:
Click Next on the welcome page of the setup wizard

Step4:
Agree to the licensing agreement

Step5:
Choose Default install location