Pandora Recovery allows you to find and recover recoverable deleted files from NTFS-formatted volumes. Pandora Recovery will scan your hard drive and build an index of existing and deleted files and directories (folders) on any logical drive of your computer with supported file format. Once the scanning is complete you have full control over which files to recover and what destination to recover them to. You can BROWSE the hierarchy of existing and deleted files, or you can use SEARCH functionality to find a deleted file if you remember at least one of the following:
- full or partial file name,
- file size,
- file creation date, or
- file last accessed date

Pandora Recovery allows you to preview deleted files of certain type (images and text files) without performing recovery. This feature becomes really important if you are forced to recover deleted files to the same drive. Currently you can preview files having several image file types (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, ICO,TIF, TGA, PCX, WBMP, WMF, JP2, J2K, JBG, JPC, PGX, PNM, RAS, CUR) and several text file types (TXT, LOG, INI, BAT, RTF, XML, CSS). Quick Viewer allows you preview file contents as text if it cannot find appropriate viewer for it. To use quick viewer you can select deleted file and or click the Quick Viewer icon or right click on deleted file and select 'Quick View'. Quick View will then display a preview of deleted file.

Finally, Pandora Recovery allows you to recover deleted files, without any limitations on application's end. Note that successful recovery might not be possible - if the original location has been reused by operating system to store different content the integrity of the original content has not been preserved and the recovered data will most likely be corrupted.

O/S: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2000

Use this link on the website to download:
'Download from local server' at:
http://www.pandorarecovery.com/download/

Pandora Recovery 1.3.7 - September, 26 2007
Pandora Recovery 1.3.7, optimized and with the expanded functionality has been released.

Version 1.3.7 more than doubles the list of the file types supported by the surface/cluster scan. The newest version can detect and recover DOC and DOCX (MS Word 95-2007), XLS and XLSX (MS Excel 95-2007), PPT and PPTX (MS PowerPoint 95-2007), MP3 and ZIP files even if the corresponding MFT record has been re-used or damaged. During the testing phase an MS Word 95 DOC deleted 11 (eleven!) years ago was successfully recovered.

Version 1.3.7 significantly improves the speed of the surface scan and introduced several visual indicators of a scan in progress, including an animated icon in the taskbar notification area (better known as the system tray or simply the tray). The lifetime of the help tool-tips has been extended and the list of columns on the search tab has been expanded to include all available attributes.