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5 stars
Version: Zero Assumption Recovery 7.3.1
"This thing rocks..."
Pros: This is probably the best software I've ever had for recovering files... My children knocked my external HD off my desk one day while I was at work and when I came home my system told me that the drive I was trying to access had not been formatted (which I knew was untrue because it is the drive I had been storing all of my digital photos and video on)... I tried a number of options to get it to recognize the drive and data but nothing worked... A friend suggested ZAR to me and being desperate I figured $99 was a cheap price for all those memories so I bought it... This software recovered ALL 30,000+ photos and video (at least as near as I can tell, I have been able to find everything I've gone looking for) from the drive in question... After the recovery was done I then "formatted" the original drive and am using it today (of course I'm not putting my photos and videos back on it, just stuff that is no big deal if I lose)...
Cons: The things I don't like I believe are unavoidable given my understanding of how this software works... It took about 9 days to read my drive and recover my files on an old P3 800 machine (most of that time was in locating all the potential files on the drive, it was a mostly full 250GB drive)... It recovered a large number of "false files" that I had to delete as the actual recovery portion of the program ran, in order to keep enough free space on the drive I was recovering to but that is my fault, not ZARs...
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