is a small utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities.
OS Win: 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista

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Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives!
OS Win: 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3

allows you to backup logical drives and partitions to image files, browse these images, view and extract files, restore these images to the same or a different drive.
OS Win: XP/2003

is free software that allows you to recover deleted files.
OS Win: 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.
OS Win: 2000/XP

Easily backup, synchronize, or restore your files to another drive, ZIP file, networked drive, or removable media.

is a free and easy-to-use yet powerful file undelete solution for FAT and NTFS file systems.
OS Win: 98/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista

A tool for recovering date from damaged CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-Ray disks.

SelfImage is the little hard drive utility with big aspirations. In its current incarnation, SelfImage is capable of making an image of a hard disk partition and writing it to another - useful for making backups.
Use SelfImage to create a disk image of any partition and even partitions that Windows does not recognize (Linux partitions, etc).

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Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down.

In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS (used by default in Windows XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32 or FAT16 file systems FreeUndelete is the utility to help.

It's an easy to use back-up tool, which will save you a lot of troubles. It guards your personal data by making real-time copies (whenever you make changes to your documents) to almost any destination you choose.