CNET Editors' review
The data-recovery skills of FinalData Premium are impressive, though the interface could benefit from minor improvements. Select a drive, and in a matter of minutes deleted folders, files, URLs, images, and more will be resurrected. Alas, it's difficult to tell how far into the past the program is digging. Are these files from five days ago or five years? Moreover, since all folders are displayed in boldface in your list of results, it isn't clear which are empty and which contain files. FinalData Premium is fast and powerful, however, so data sleuths may find the interface compromises worth weathering.
Publisher's Description
From FinalData:
FinalData Premium, also known as FinalData Enterprise, can recover data after formatting or the loss of a partition on the hard drive, and can recover files destroyed by the CIH, Worm, and Love viruses. It can recover data from damaged sectors of CD-RW and CD-R media. If you need to recover important e-mail or Microsoft Office files vital for your business or pleasure, FinalData can recover them. Also, the program has the ability to permanently delete unwanted files from your hard drive. With FinalData, data recovery is only three clicks away. This do-it-yourself software can retrieve data effortlessly in minutes without the need for expensive data-recovery experts.
The program has been rigorously tested against the highest standards of reliability and quality assurance. The application is powerful, easy to use, and convenient for any Windows user. With FinalData, computer novices and computer-savvy individuals alike will be recovering data like data-recovery professionals. FinalData, the true Windows-based data-recovery solution, will recover files that have been lost by quick formatting, Fdisk, FAT damage, MBR damage, or directory destruction. It will even recover files after you have emptied the Recycle Bin, and it recovers data from FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
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All versions:
2.8 starsout of 15 votes
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Current version:
2.9 starsout of 15 votes
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My rating:
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"Can I give a red or negative star?"
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
Pros
Easy to use. Quick to determine that this software doesn't retrieve data from corrupted drive.
Cons
It won't read drive data from corrupted drives, when others will. Way too expensive! I have a fairly new drive w/ corrupt info, and this program doesn't even recognize if drives with corrupted files are connected. Don't waste your money, unless you have a very simple need and lots of money to waste.
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"(Standard Version) Excellent product."
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
Pros
(Reviewing Standard version, fewer features than Premium at a lower price).
Yes, you need to pay for it to actually recover your files, but at least you can see what would be recovered first.
No problems installing/running on Windows XP SP-2.
Recovered ALL files from two partitions that had been deleted, resized and reformatted - some 30000 files in all.
Other products I tried would only recover selected file types - FinalData found everything.
Cons
None. Although it's a little dated this product still holds its own.
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"Didn't work"
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
Pros
Nothing
Cons
The editor's review states: "Some features limited". Yes, that's true, the trial version will not recover data from CD. Started the program, it read the CD drive and then when it came time to hit "restore" I was told that the trial version would not recover data. "Buy the software" the program stated. Talk about a tease!
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"Worthless"
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
Summary
Fails to run not only in XP but 2000 sp4 as well. Don't waste the time.
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"Would not run on XP"
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
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"Didn't work"
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
Summary
I couldn't run it on my PC. I have a new one, with WinXP installed on it.
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"Why does it say it recovers damaged office files?"
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
Summary
I can't understand why they say it recovers damaged office files. It does not as far as I can see. I tried other demos that DID work so I know they were not unrecoverable.
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"Does not recover Access and poor word and excel recovery"
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
Summary
pretty lame for office recovery, I tried other more specific utilities for office recovery and they worked much better. well they actually worked!
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"Expensive but worth it"
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
Summary
Tried every other similar type program and the demo version was able to see my files so bought the software to recover my files. Bought it and was worth the money.
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"Great, but..."
Version: FinalData Premium 2.0
Summary
The scanning takes too long (a 30GB HDD took 9 hours to finish scanning), and the price ($200) is too high for these features.
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