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5 stars
Version: Kernel for FAT-NTFS 4.03
"It WORKS, when others didn't."
Pros: I had a bad sector on a SAT drive that locked it up (dskchk would stop, as would most other utilities). I took it to a local "Computer Nerdz", they tried recovery for 2 days, charged me $59, and said "it stops and can't get anything off it". Said to try a HD recover place ($300 minimum).
So I tried all the freeware here, and nothing worked (some got "some" files, but didn't keep file names. Downloaded this trial, and the ability to set the start and stop sector, allowed it to "see" after the bad sector. It found tons of stuff, so I paid my $49.00 (NTFS version), and after running for 6 hours found and recovered what I was looking for, about 5000 photo files from the past year I hadn't backed up (learned my lesson there!), all with correct folders and names. It did mess up a few .jpgs (which were probably already messed up), but all my original CR2 files and .jpg originals look great. The trail will show you if you can recover anything. WELL WORTH THE MONEY!
Cons: Not to easy to figure out. To get best recovery setting number of sectors to check at one time to a minimum helps keep it from stopping on a bad sector, but also increases run time a lot. Trial runs very slow (probably has setting to minimum), once you buy it, seems to run much faster.
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