- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (3 recovery actions trial); $39.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 14, 2007
- Total Downloads: 77,984
- Downloads last week: 300
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 19 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Like a rescue team for your hard drive, Search and Recover restores files accidentally deleted or lost due to reformatting or disk corruption (using the new StrongScan search).
Finding files is Search and Recover's strongest point. You can filter files by name, type, size, or restoration probability, and save searches for later use or perform another search from the results of the previous one. Search and Recover offers the useful ability to search deleted files by text, and it displays found items as raw data, text, HTML, or image files.
Although it can also restore deleted files from CD and DVD and external devices such as digital cameras or Zip drives, its interface doesn't make it convenient to pick several files for recovery. Besides recovering the files you want and using disk imaging to prevent file loss, Search and Recover lets you permanently erase unnecessary or embarrassing files and folders.
The trial version lets you recover only three files, but that's more generous than most similar programs. Considering its price and its bevy of features, Search and Recover is worth a look.
Publisher's description
From iolo Technologies :Recover data deleted from your PC or digital device. Reclaim documents, folders, music, photos, videos, system files, and more. Recover e-mail from these popular clients: Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, Eudora, and Thunderbird. Rescue data from hard drives, floppy disks, CD/DVDs, cameras, music players, flash drives, and dozens of other media and devices. It can also recover data after PC disasters, even years after files were lost.
Verison 4.7 adds CD/DVD recovery and features new SmartScan technology.
CNET Editor's Note: The Download Now link will download a small installer file. Remain online and double-click the installer to proceed with the actual download.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.1 stars out of 19 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Search and Recover 4.7
Pros: One of the best recover software you can get. You can search in categories. I found all my photos after a total crash and formatting. The software show all pictures, make it easy to recover specific files.
Cons: When you purchase Iolo software, do it on Iolo.com. Otherwise you probably get an one year subscription which you have to renew every year (very expencive).
You should purcahse the standalone version.
Iolo don't answer mail (that give this software only 4 stars).
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Search and Recover 4.7
Cons: there's freeware available that works better. i paid for full vesion and it couldn't recover, actually even find, anything. but other software, freeware here did.
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Version: Search and Recover 4.7
"Waste of money, do not use for lost itunes music files."
Pros: It found some files, but none I wanted
Cons: It failed to find the itunes files I lost from my hard drive (no, I hadn't backed them up and hundreds of pounds of music have vanished!).
Summary: What is the point of paying for something that claimed to recover lost music files and then failed to find the lost itunes files, even though most of them must be there somewhere!. A waste of money for what I needed.It found loads of pictures and o... read more >>
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Version: Search and Recover 4.7
Pros: Price: $20.
Cons: Did not work on camera card.
Summary: Tried version 5.0.6 on a 1 GB SD camera card. WIN 2000 explorer found 6 photos, but this program didn't find any. More expensive programs found all 25 photos.
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Version: Search and Recover 4.7
Pros: allows you to recover data from reformatting or hard drive failure, or accidentally deleted files.
Cons: Slow as malasses. when recovering a file you can't minimize the program in order to access the desktop. didn't recover file names.
Summary: My external hard drive failed due to a power outage. i removed my external hard drive(my book WD) from it's case placed it in a hard drive enclosure and still wasn't able to access the hard drive. i did a quick format on the drive installed this pro... read more >>
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