Pretty specific for a data recovery program, only one type of files per program?
Recuva can find pictures, plus email, plus whatever and there are other programs that I've bought that can recover all files from a formatted drive, including usb drives, photo cards, etcetera.
I'll pass on this one in favor of programs that actually do more for less.

Daniel Lovejoy  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+114)

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Tried it and not impressed, it's all visuals and irritating "purchace" and "Register" buttons that stay there forever (is it even the full version?) The "register" was showing but not actually active for me to click on to check)

The price ($40) is exorbitant for such a task-limited application, especially considering that the primary competition software that does far more is actually freeware.
Recuva is FREE and most digital cameras have an "accidental deletion recovery" option now.

Very specific that it can only be used for "Photos" and not every type of file which they press you to buy their other overpriced tools. This might be free today but it's a huge file for something so simple.

Installation problems:

IT sat "computing space requirements" for about 2 minutes, and I have a rather fast machine.

The EULA was "placeholder text" instead of a real EULA. (as below)
To add your own license text to this dialog, specify your license agreement file in the Dialog editor.

Navigate to the User Interface view.
Select the LicenseAgreement dialog.
Choose to edit the dialog layout.
Once in the Dialog editor, select the Memo ScrollableText control.
Set FileName to the name of your license agreement RTF file.

After you build your release, your license text will be displayed in the License Agreement dialog."

When it finally did install it was a whopping 13 Megabytes in size.

The "help" wanted me install a "Chinese simplified" language pack.

NOT recommended in any way, shape or form.


Download Recuva, it's free, has a simple interface and will recover ALL files, not just image files.

anton  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+90)

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This software couldn't see my H drive which had a missing volume boot record (Windows could) so I have no idea how it is expected to recover data from a deleted volume.

It also cannot see mounted volumes in Windows.

It recovered NOTHING form the three test volumes I tried, yet a forensic data recovery tool I used recovered thousands of JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP images.

Poor!

Joseph  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+62)

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@ken roberts
DON'T store you photos on CD's!! I have about 100 CD's filled with pics from 1999 - doesn't matter what brand, I've got all kinds - and only 1 in 3 is still readable. No programme has yet managed to recover anything from them. Recuva not bad, but RescuePro from Sandisk (you get it free when you buy one of their flash disks) is better. External hard drive much the best idea, but even there you should have two to make two back-ups.
Best thing to remember about recovery is that, if you can't access the drive, nothing except very expensive data recovery services will have any chance.

Brian  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+61)

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More playing reveals some rather interesting finds:

The first part is illogical, how is the target market of this application (pc users that are not experts) going to know whether to select "recover from a deleted volume" or "recover from a formatted volume"????

Even I'm confused.

And why are there all these odd references to something called "Esdrw" everywhere???

Inside the applications are images of:
"Email recovery", "Email repair", "Outlook Repair", Partition Recovery", "Raw Recovery". Kind of weird for an "image file" recovery tool.


There is a string of file types supported, perhaps it supports more that "what's on the box"


All Files
*.*

Image Files
*.bmp
*.jpg
*.gif
*.png
*.mng
*.ico
*.tif
*.tga
.*pcx
*.pcx
*.wbmp
*.wmf
*.j2k
*.jbg
*.jp2
*.jpc
*.pgx
.*pnm
*.ras

anton  –  13 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+33)

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