Comments on: Featured Freeware: Pandora Recovery

Today's Featured Freeware showcases Pandora, which can resurrect files long since deleted.


by tashfeen_m July 23, 2008 12:25 AM PDT: Frankly, recovery software rarely perform as well as they advertise and I've long stopped even bothering about them. I prefer disk imaging, which is faster and on the whole a lot less trouble. Check out http://techqi.blogspot.com/2008/04/really-useful-stuff-acronis-true-image.html if you're interested.; Like this Reply to this comment


by tashfeen_m July 23, 2008 12:26 AM PDT: Frankly, recovery software rarely perform as well as they advertise and I've long stopped even bothering about them. I prefer disk imaging, which is faster and on the whole a lot less trouble. Check out http://techqi.blogspot.com/2008/04/really-useful-stuff-acronis-true-image.html if you're interested.; Like this Reply to this comment


by cptcanuck2 March 14, 2009 8:07 PM PDT: Eureka! Pandora found 1 jpeg photo I deleted by accident. It wasn't easy though because the 2 file recovery programs I tried Pandora & VirtualLab don't have your old file names for almost all of the deleted files.

The only 2 things Pandora let me use to narrow the search was the file extension jpeg and the size of the file. I guessed my photo was between 95 and 125 kB, so I searched all the deleted photos within that range one by one. Otherwise, it could take forever, and most of the deleted photos are already overwritten and corrupted. VirtualLab lets you browse a folder of deleted photos at a time.

If you lose a file you can't risk losing, you have to stop using that computer, because even searching the web and downloading Pandora could overwrite your file. As well, Pandora told me to save recovered files to an external device such as a USB stick to avoid overwriting more files. I was too lazy to even do that, but I was lucky.; Like this Reply to this comment


by cptcanuck2 March 14, 2009 9:55 PM PDT: Eureka! Pandora found 1 jpeg photo I deleted by accident. It wasn't easy though because the 2 file recovery programs I tried Pandora & VirtualLab don't have your old file names for almost all of the deleted files.

The only 2 things Pandora let me use to narrow the search was the file extension jpeg and the size of the file. I guessed my photo was between 95 and 125 kB, so I searched all the deleted photos within that range one by one. Otherwise, it could take forever, and most of the deleted photos are already overwritten and corrupted. VirtualLab lets you browse a folder of deleted photos at a time.

If you lose a file you can't risk losing, you have to stop using that computer, because even searching the web and downloading Pandora could overwrite your file, so Pandora says to physically attach your C drive as a "slave" to another computer to do the recovery risk free. As well, Pandora told me to save recovered files to an external device such as a USB stick (or the D drive) to avoid overwriting more files. I was too lazy to even do that, but I was lucky.; Like this Reply to this comment