A software program available as a free download can help you recover lost data. Pandora Recovery, which has been downloaded more than 500,000 times, can be accessed at cNet’s download.com.

The software is able to recover deleted and/or lost data from both NTFS and FAT formatted drives. It scans the requested drive and builds an index of both existing and deleted files and directories. Users then have full control over which files to recover and what destination to recover them to. In addition, users have the ability to preview deleted files of certain types (images and text files) without performing the full recovery.

A full list of Pandora Recovery 2.1.1 features can be found on PandoraRecovery.com.

Pandora Recovery is also available on a removable storage unit (USB jump drive). Pandora Mobile Recovery requires no installation and greatly increases the data recovery success by running the program from and recovering the deleted data to the Pandora Mobile Recovery unit. Utilizing the Mobile version omits the chance of data being further corrupted or written-over during an installation process. The USB version is available for a fee.

The recovery software is only available for Windows computers. The company has no plans to create a version compatible with the Mac, Linux, or any other non-Microsoft Operating System.