Davory incorporates data recovery technology introduced with WinHex and concentrates on ease of use.

Recovers files from damaged or formatted drives and undeletes files. It offers two separate, fully automated data recovery mechanisms to maximize your chances of success.

One mechanism works with files of any type, the other one recovers JPEG (JPG), PNG, GIF, BMP, MS Office (DOC, XLS), PostScript (EPS), Acrobat (PDF), Quicken (QDF), ZIP, RAR, RIFF (WAV, AVI), and MPEG (MPG). Specifically supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS.

As it works not only on hard drives, floppy disks, CDs, and DVDs, but also on CompactFlash cards, SmartMedia cards, memory sticks etc.

It may save your day in particular if you are the owner of a digital camera. It can also be put to good use during computer forensic examinations, as you may extract files of certain types or files matching certain filename patterns conveniently and quickly with only a few mouse clicks.

Limitations:

В· The evaluation version will tell you if can find your files and recover them up to 200 KB. Davory cannot repair corrupt files.
В· Davory can access CD-RW media only on Windows systems where DirectCD/PacketCD has not been installed.
В· Davory cannot recover files that were compressed or encrypted at the file system level (NTFS only).
В· If a digital camera card has been formatted in a destructive way, by overwriting all sectors and not just by initializing the file system data structures, recovery is impossible.
В· Files deleted by a FUJI camera are usually not recoverable, because FUJI cameras initialize the actual image data when deleting, not just mark a file as deleted in the file system.
В· On Windows NT/2000/XP, administrator privileges are required to access most media types.