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- Price: Free to try (Copy-disabled); $79.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 03, 2007
- Total Downloads: 889,119
- Downloads last week: 1,772
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 91 votes
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Reviewed by: CNET Staff on February 27, 2009
Accidentally deleted your files? GetDataBack Data Recovery can track them down--for a price. It even works with corrupted drives and those not recognized by Windows. This version only recovers files from FAT drives, but it does offer a search tool for quickly locating a file by its date, name, or size.
If you suspect your actual disk is about to bite the dust, you can create a drive image to use during recovery. The utility can't make rescue discs, however, so if you want to do that, you'll need to build yourself a bootable Windows PE disc and add GetDataBack Data Recovery to it--the publisher's Web site has instructions.
Although the application proves quite adept at locating deleted files, and you can view their contents, the demo won't recover them. We can't vouch for how well this core feature works. GetDataBack Data Recovery seems worth trying, but if you actually want to recover any lost work, this demo won't do you much good.
Publisher's description
From Runtime Software :GetDataBack Data Recovery is a highly advanced data recovery software that will help you get your data back when your drive's partition table, boot record, or FAT/MFT or root directory is corrupt, a virus has hit the drive; when files are deleted; or when the drive is struck by a power failure. The software can even recover your data when the drive is no longer recognized by the operating system or when all directory information is lost. Advanced algorithms will make sure all directories and subdirectories are put together as they were, and that long filenames are reconstructed correctly. GetDataBack Data Recovery is safe because it's read-only, which means the program will never attempt to write to the drive you are about to recover.
Version 3.3 added support for Virtual Image files.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.3 added support for Virtual Image files
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 91 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery 3.3
Pros: After a power outage our second hard drive which we use for data storage was no longer recognized by Windows - no files, no folders, no pictures, no music, nothing. Since I was out of town, my wife decided to re-format the drive to see if it could still be used. Then she copied some of our photos off of a CD onto the drive to prove it would work and left the rest up to me when I got home. Having little hope, I started GetDataBack and went to bed while it began scanning our 160GB drive. Next morning it showed a huge list of recoverable files. I told it to recover them (to our main Windows C: drive in My Documents). Later we went through the recovered files. As far as we could tell everything was there except for two photos - yes, just two! - and one garbled music track. In additon, it recovered some photos and documents we had deleted over six months before. We were suitably impressed .....
Cons: It may take hours and hours to scan a large drive.
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Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery 3.3
Pros: get all data less than half hour from 18gb my missing file, where i can get this program with activation code?
Cons: still can't save my lost data from this progam without activation code
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Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery 3.3
"Not good for recover .doc , xls , jpg files from cluster."
Cons: I have rescued a lot of .doc , .xls , .jpg and other files that have been stores automaticly as Cluster files. I assumed I could get my files back to the original but the program did not help me out with that .
Could it be that I have used the wrong program ?
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Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery 3.3
"Right now, I choose this as the best."
Pros: This software found more lost files than the others that I have tested so far.
Cons: None. It works perfectly, and so far, it's the best I've seen.
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Version: GetDataBack Data Recovery 3.3
"It works ! Pretty simple once you RTFM."
Pros: Simple interface, mostly automatic operation. Read the manual and it works better than if you click and hope. I recovered the vast majority of my files from a drive that registered as unformatted, and wouldn't boot or read at all through Windows.
Cons: There's 80 cons. $80. Seems steep for a single program, but since it works, they are forgiven. I just wish for that money that you got some of the other programs they offer as well. They do offer upgrades for the money, so in the long run....
Summary: I tried about 10 different programs to try to recover my files. About half of them failed to even read the drive at all. It's very nice that you get to try out the demo program and verify that it does indeed find all your files, before you shell o... read more >>
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