Active@ Partition Recovery User Reviews

• 4.0 stars

  "Works. What a relief."

  May 16, 2011  |   By davjoh1

  Version: Active@ Partition Recovery 3

  Pros

  The professional windows-dos will restore a partition.

  Cons

  They can be more upfront about which version will restore a partition.

  Summary

  The professional Windows-DOS will restore a partition. In my case, it wasn't overwritten. I haven't seen where it works in DOS yet.
  They can be more upfront about which version will restore a partition. It's not so easy to think it through when your feeling desperate. I bought the DOS only version before finding out that I needed the Pro version.
  
  Updated on May 16, 2011

  I have later found that 'Mini Tool Partition Wizard Home Edition 6.0' will restore partitions and it is free. Fortunately, I don't make $80 mistakes too often. That was $35 or so for Active Partition DOS and $50 for Active Partition Windows-DOS.
  
  Updated on May 16, 2011

  I used Active Partition Recovery 6.0.
  
  Updated on May 16, 2011

  They were very kind to refund what I paid for the DOS version.

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• 5.0 stars

  "What a relief!"

  July 8, 2010  |   By mark_c_uk

  Version: Active@ Partition Recovery 3

  Pros

  It works!!!
  
  Acceptable price, great GUI and help files.

  Cons

  None... really!!! I was just so relieved!!!

  Summary

  (Version 5.5) Great program, after downloading and watching every % of a 4 hour superscan it found my 'missing' partition and restored it too! (after purchasing full version). Worth every penny and as another review said - this saved my backside too!!

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• 5.0 stars

  "Great Program"

  August 13, 2009  |   By Practice

  Version: Active@ Partition Recovery 3

  Pros

  Will fix damaged partitions.

  Cons

  I haven't use this allot so can't say there are any cons at this point.

  Summary

  If course, if your hard drive is defective and/or failing, then your only option is a data recovery center. If this is the case, I recommend OnTrack at OnTrack.com. But if your hardware is good and your partition was damaged for whatever reason, then this program should work great for you. This is the best one I have personally used and I highly recommend it.
  
  The most common use for this will probably for people with external storage, like USB drives, that did not use the Safely Remove Hardware option when removing it and has damaged the partition, and Windows is asking to format the drive. Internal drive partitions can also be damaged on other ways.

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• 4.0 stars

  "It worked! It worked! It worked....phew!!!"

  July 6, 2009  |   By gclark20

  Version: Active@ Partition Recovery 3

  Pros

  Interface is easy on the eyes and intuitive enough to operate without alot of ramping up. Need to loss weight? Sweat through a superscan...free of charge!

  Cons

  My only gripe: I was dissappointed with the 'Save scan Results' option which made the app crash the first time causing me to sit through another 4 hours of superscan.

  Summary

  At the end of the day it worked as promised. My deleted partition was found and restored without loss of data. Thanks for saving my backside!

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• 5.0 stars

  "Recovered the partition with smooth and ease"

  January 29, 2009  |   By neo_expert

  Version: Active@ Partition Recovery 3

  Pros

  I have recovered my partition within minutes . I have tried almost 5 other softwares without any success. Then tried this software (Full version) and it worked for me.

  Cons

  When I tried to recover the partition, it showed an error message saying to read the help file. However the help file is not much useful

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• 1.0 stars

  "Download @ your peril!"

  February 21, 2007  |   By dane_dare

  Version: Active@ Partition Recovery 3

  Pros

  Pleasant GUI combined with a satisfactory Wizard. To summarize this program is Nice to look at.

  Cons

  Unfortunately the program fails to perform. Try B4U Buy has been rewritten to Buy B4U Try. This software is useless, unless you want to believe the extravagant claims and trust door to door sales men or have a stash of cash to waste to give it a whirl on the off chance it works, otherwise I suggest stay clear! There are better, cheaper programs out there.

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