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4 stars
Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery for NTFS
"A useful commodity to have at hand"
Pros: Recovers any/all data, even if the primary partition has been deleted via Fdisk. Logical display, similar to earlier Xtree or LapLink programs, puts you in control! Following initial scan actual recovery/saving of data is quick.
Cons: Price is slightly high...
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery for NTFS
Pros: I recently accidentally formated my data drive with all of my sons baby pictures, over 10 gigs of music, all of my document files, outlook email files and other data files. I was able to recover ALL of the 18 gigs of data that I lost. Seen some reviewers claim that it took 20 hours to scan, but I had a 120GB HDD and it only took 42 minutes I guess it depends on the amount of data there is on the disk. The copying was superfast, just like copying data from one HDD to another. The life saving comes from the fact that if it didn't work my wife would have ended my exixtence for losing our sons baby pictures
Thank you GETDATABACK!
Cons: The interface is not as polished as it could be. If you accidentally close the app you have to scan the drive all over again. The price was a bit steep $79 for the NTFS version.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery for NTFS
"Recovered all my data, and then some"
Pros: Recovered data from a 200Gb NTFS partition, that was partially overwritten by a DOS (FAT) format. I downloaded and purchased "Active UNDELETE" after reading reviews of that program, and it found ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on my HDD to recover. Total waste of money. GetDataBack was a different story.
1. First and foremost, I got all my data back (as far as I can tell).
2. Easy to use interface, with step by step instructions.
3. Demo version allows full scan of drive and displays directories and files that have been deleted, and gives the ability to test the file to see if it is good or not. Their documentation states that if the file appears the chances are good it has been recovered properly. I found this to be true.
4. Let's you choose what files or directories to recover, or you can recover the whole NTFS drive in one shot.
5. All file names in tact, I did not have to do any renaming.
6. Allows user to save the scan, so you can go back later and choose which files / directories to recover. Great feature, but I did not use it. When you're in a panic about getting your data back, I don't want to even shut my computer off!
7. Warns you not to save data to the same drive. This seems obvious, but good to have the warning anyway.
7. Really quick scan. 143Gb of data in an hour or so. Don't quote me on the exact time, all I know is that it was really fast compared to the "other" program I bought.
Overall, a very good program. If you're like me and just want to push a couple of buttons, see your data, and get it back, all with as little hassle as possible, this program is for you.
Cons: Price. Wold have liked to see it in the $25 range. Still, well worth the money.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery for NTFS
Pros: GetDataBack is one of the best tool around yet to recover lost data, but let's be fair: If you really want the most data recovery possible, you should try 2 or 3 different applications as they are slight differences sometimes on the files they get, which is hard to notice when you got huge amount of files to recover. GetDataBack has three good abilities: it says the number of files and sizes per document, which is perfect for comparisons with documents retrived from other recovery applications. It also tells you which files are deleted, hidden, or system-bound, to separate them from the standard files, and in the option menu you can select that no deleted files be retrieved. Finally, it is very long to scan, but when it's done, the copy transfer is very fast (if you decide to buy it). So fast that I always need to verify if everything is transferred well.
Cons: Well, the scan at the beginning is awfully long, and it seems I got to restart from zero if I closed it by accident. PC File Inspector opens on prompt, compared, but as I said there may be a few files that GetDataBack is getting that File Inspector won't and vice-versa. It happens with me. The other flaw is that GetDataBack separates FAT and NTFS in two applications. That may be a good thing? I like when an application just gets everything at once. Haven't tried R-Studio and Easy Recovery, but my guess is that using GetDataBack and File Inspector with a bit of file perusing to retrieve missing parts is the optimum option. I'm told that with some dead drives you won't get 100 per 100 per cent anyway, but nearly.
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5 stars
Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery for NTFS
"Great Product, Highly recommended."
Pros: I tried many freeware programs to recover data from a harddrive that was unreadable in Windows, to no avail. Some of them could read the files but they couldn't reproduce the directory structure. GetDataBack worked quickly and restored all the data I wanted with the directory structure intact.
The harddrive in question was unbootable, unreadable by many programs, had an MFT error, and many programs said it was corrupt.
None of that mattered to GetDataBack.
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