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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: February 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 748,181
- Downloads last week: 12,065
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 320 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 30, 2009
File recovery has never been easier thanks to Pandora Recovery. The program's wizard-like approach to finding and retrieving lost files will appeal to all users.
The user interface is about as straightforward as it gets. Clean and simple menu and command buttons run across the top of the paneled window, while a tree-menu containing hard-disk folders to browse resides in a sidebar. But what stood out the most was the program's wizard, which walked us through the process of locating long-lost files. It first prompts you to check your Recycle Bin, which sounds obvious, but is a necessary time-saver. The program has three search settings (Browse, Search, Deep Scan) and each has its own description so that you'll know which to choose. Depending on the search setting you select, the program's interface changes to accommodate the search. We started with a Deep Scan, which detects deleted file types. Once we selected the file types to include in the scan (All, Images & Photo, Archived Files, Music & Sounds) the program immediately went to work scanning our hard disk. Considering the task at hand, the program quickly pulled up deleted files.
We liked the quick help links located throughout the interface to answer specific questions, but the program does included a very thorough built-in Help file. Our only complaint is that it left files that had to be manually deleted during uninstallation. However, we highly recommend this free program for any user looking to quickly locate a lost file.
Publisher's description
From Pandora :Pandora Recovery is a powerful free tool that provides its users an effective way to attempt recovery of permanently deleted files. And that does not mean restoration of a file from Recycle Bin. The software recovers files removed from Recycle Bin, deleted using Shift + Delete keys bypassing Recycle Bin and files deleted from DOS prompt. Pandora Recovery lets its user browse, search, preview and recover files deleted from NTFS and FAT volumes, supporting hard drives, flash drives and memory cards. It successfully handles archived, hidden, encrypted and compressed files and recovers Alternate Data Streams (ADS). Pandora Recovery features classic interface wizards, hints and context-sensitive help. Pandora Recovery allows user to browse and search the tree of deleted files where show deleted items only button comes handy. Finally, it has ability to scan drive clusters, picking up files whose MFT record has been reused by OS, damaged or recreated (it can restore files on formatted drives).
Version 2.1.1 supports Data carving (surface scan) of Adobe PhotoShop PSD and MS Outlook PST.
What's new in this version:
Data carving (surface scan) of Adobe PhotoShop PSD and MS Outlook PST supported, access to Recycle Bin and GUI improvements.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 320 votes
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Version: Pandora Recovery 2.1.1
Pros: nothing great about this program
Cons: wherever i wish to search, browse or perform deep scan for the overwriting files n deleted files..it says no file can be open n then a screen comes out n says pandora has encountered some problem n bra bra bra...... tell me what to do then?
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Version: Pandora Recovery 2.1.1
"Highly recommended, worked better than anticipated."
Pros: Managed to recover about 80% of the files from a C: drive of a virus infected PC. The remaining 20% were probably so extensively corrupted that they would have beyond the scope of any reasonably priced commercial software to recover.
Cons: Nothing that I could find.
Summary: Pandora Recovery is a really 'user friendly' program and is quite straightforward to use. Unfortunately it can't be expected to recover all missing files, this may require some really expensive software and even then 100% recovery may be unlikely.... read more >>
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Version: Pandora Recovery 2.1.1
"Good FREE program does the job O.K"
Pros: Easy to set up and does the job to it's ability.
Cons: Haven't used it long enough to make a comment.
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Version: Pandora Recovery 2.1.1
Pros: It recovers recently deleted files all right
Cons: Nothing that I could find
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Version: Pandora Recovery 2.1.1
Pros: Worked for me
Cons: I have no cons...
Summary: Great work Pandora Recovery Team...
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