Pandora Recovery
Excellent
Full user review
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"CRASHED!!!"
Pros
1.) Free
2.) Probably good for smaller storage disks
3.) Some people claim that it allows you to save original folder structure for any files you want to recover however since my scan froze I couldn't see any options for that
4.) Allows you to view list recovered files before scan is completeCons
I ran the scan for my 300 gb external harddrive and it gave me an initial 3 hr scan-time estimate. Other programs I tried estimated on average 5 hrs. One hour in the estimate changed to 11 hrs. The progress bar stopped moving from that time on and I let it sit for one day before closing the program. This is the first program I tried that never completed the scan. It found about 2000 files and did not organize them in their original folder structures. Other programs found >20,000 files. I'm still hoping to find a program that saves original folder structure :p
Summary
Well it's free, so if no other program works for you at least you get some files back here.
This sw also does not recover avi files
Updated on Apr 22, 2012