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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: September 25, 2007
- Total Downloads: 394,501
- Downloads last week: 6,882
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 311 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
The name Pandora originates in Greek mythology, and it means "all-giving." It's an appropriate name for Pandora Recovery, which can give you back files you've deleted--even those removed months ago.
Pandora functions on NTFS-formatted volumes by scanning the hard drive and building an index of existing files and deleted file markers. This, in turn, allows the dead files to be brought back to life--as long as the file format is currently supported by the computer. Users can browse for deleted files, search for specific ones, preview certain file types like images, and get an estimate on the chance of recovery and the amount of time the procedure will take.
The program offers a guidance wizard to make sure that you're able to find deleted files. Pandora cautions you to recover deleted files to a separate drive from the one which they're being recovered from--sound advice, and the program makes it easy to recover to an external hard disk or portable drive. The interface isn't anything special, but combines Windows XP Explorer-style navigation with its own toolbar for an effective if uninspired layout.
There's also a portable version of the program that usually retails for $40.
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. Pandora Recovery actually recovers files permanently removed from Recycle Bin, files originally deleted using Shift + Delete keys bypassing Recycle Bin and files deleted from DOS prompt. Pandora Recovery lets its user browse, search preview and recover deleted files. 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 the tree of deleted files where show deleted items only button comes handy. It also allows user to search the tree. Finally, it has ability to scan drive clusters, picking up files whose MFT record has been reused by OS, damaged or recreated (it can pick up files from formatted drives).
Version 1.3.7 improves cluster scan. The list of supported types for the cluster scan is expanded to include MP3, DOC/DOCX (MS Word 95-2007), XLS/XLSX (MS Excel 95-2007) and PPT/PPTX (MS PowerPoint 95-2007).
What's new in this version:
Version 1.3.7 improves cluster scan. The list of supported types for the cluster scan is expanded to include MP3, DOC/DOCX (MS Word 95-2007), XLS/XLSX (MS Excel 95-2007) and PPT/PPTX (MS PowerPoint 95-2007).
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User reviews of Pandora Recovery 1.3.7
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 311 votes
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Pandora Recovery 1.3.7
"One of the best free recovery software"
Pros: It's working, it's verry FAST and it's really FREE :)
Faster than any other program I've tried.
Of course there is a slower "surface scan" option but usualy I found the files I was searching for only by using the automatic quick scan. For example the program finished in only 10 secconds scaning a 80gb partition and all the files I was searching for was properly recovered!
The GUI is verry simple, if you are an old computer user you will love the clean "style". No colours, no useless pictures, no nags, no screens ...
I also scaned this product with Avast, AVG, Avira and BitDefender. Nothing was found.
Cons: There is no support for old FAT32 partitions. However recovering files from NTFS partitions is working properly.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Pandora Recovery 1.3.7
Pros: Easy to use. Is totally free. If you cant remember the name of the file it will let you search for similar named files.
Cons: Nothing. It's all good
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Pandora Recovery 1.3.7
Pros: Easy to install, easy to use, finds all the files. Does exactly what I want it to do.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Pandora Recovery 1.3.7
"This is the best freeware undeleter on this site"
Pros: I've tried out 4 different undeleter programs today. I definitely recommend Pandora Recovery because its fast, completely free, easy to use, and has basically all the options you could hope for. I might sound like they're paying me to say it but I'm really just an ordinary user that is extremely pleased with the software.
Cons: Just note that if you download/install this to the same drive that the files you're trying to undelete were, then you might inadvertently overwrite them. This is true for all undeleter programs.
But the software itself is basically perfect as can be.
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0 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Pandora Recovery 1.3.7
Pros: Usability OK!
Cons: Product is just Poor... doesnt work ... lacks function... not worth the effort....
Tried it 2 times... contacted owner...waste of time... Leave it alone!!!!!!!!
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