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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
116,804
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Additional Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
April 29, 2007
Publisher's description of Data Recovery
FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS undeletion. Undelete NTFS compressed files. Undelete EFS encrypted files. Wipe out deleted files never to be recovered again. Runnable from floppy disk. Search by partial string in the file name. Undelete whole files in a directory. Neither installation nor DLLs is needed. Windows Vista supported.
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Editor's review of Data Recovery
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- "Data Recovery"
- Version reviewed: Data Recovery 2.3.1
This single-function application is a reliable and practical tool for recovering deleted files on your system.
Data Recovery requires no installation and runs in a neatly designed, straightforward interface. The program scans a user-selected drive and displays removed files in a sortable list. For a quick search, specify part of the file name. The list contains file details such as folder, file type, size, and attributes. You can then choose which files you want to recover and specify the destination of the recovered files. Data Recovery also has a wipe feature for completely removing the located files.
There aren't any bells and whistles, but users looking for an efficient and reliable file recovery tool will find this freeware handy and useful.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 22 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Data Recovery 2.3.1
Pros: Not having to install any software is a bonus. I had little faith that I'd find anything I was looking for, but then hundreds of deleted photo files reappeared on my flash drive. I was impressed.
Cons: It's not all that easy to figure out how to use it even though it's very simple looking.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Data Recovery 2.3.1
"No installer, uses MFT, found files that other free software couldnīt"
Pros: No installer, great for run from network and restore to network in order to minimize disk writes.
Uses the MFT to find files
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Data Recovery 2.3.1
"Works, but Barely; I recommend Pandora Recovery instead"
Pros: It works, barely.
Cons: It's buggy. I spent a good deal of time clicking on the buttons finding that they weren't doing anything when clicked. But oddly they worked once after clicking 3 to 8 times.
It lacks features (e.g. filtering) that are always available in these programs. Thus, once it's done scanning I had to scan through thousands of results (windows deletes a lot of files automatically) to find the ones I wanted. Fortunately it at least allowed sorting by path which helped me find what I was looking for.
I've tried out 4 different undeleter programs today. I definitely recommend Pandora Recovery because its fast, completely free, easy to use, and has basically all the options you could hope for.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Data Recovery 2.3.1
"not easy to understand how to use"
Pros: Free
Cons: It took playing around with it for a few minutes to finally figure it out and retrieve a file that I needed to restore
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Data Recovery 2.3.1
"It help me to undelete photos from my flash card"
Pros: I like it a lot because it is free and it allows me to undelete my deleted photos from my FAT32 memory card
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