Diskeeper launches Emergency Undelete as standalone application

California software company Diskeeper today announced that its Emergency Undelete is now a standalone product, independent from the Undelete 2009 software suite where it originated.

Diskeeper's Undelete 2009 is available in two editions, Professional for $59.95, and Server for $499.95. But for users who don't need full-scale disk recovery software and just want to protect themselves from accidentally deleting important files, Diskeeper's Emergency Undelete is available for $19.95 today.

Emergency Undelete is run from an external drive, and as long as the file you're looking for still resides in the space where it once was, and that space hasn't been reclaimed, it will show up as a "recoverable item."

"We really wanted to help users in their moment of panic and get them their data back safely and easily. We have accomplished that with the stand-alone release of Emergency Undelete," said Dawn Richcreek, VP of Marketing for Diskeeper Corporation.

Diskeeper suffered a serious public relations disaster in 2008 when former employees sued the company for religious indoctrination due to its observation of the Hubbard Management and Study Technologies, which are based on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the church of Scientology.

Less than a year later, the company said it had developed a technology that could "actually prevent disk fragmentation" that would revolutionize its products.

Diskeeper is expected to release its latest defragmentation software Diskeeper 2011 in the first quarter of this year.