CNET Editors' review
This application recovers data from deleted or damaged hard drives, but demo restrictions hamper user tests. DIY DatRecovery iRecovery FAT/NTFS's basic, tabbed interface merely displays configuration settings and activity logs.
Novices will appreciate the simplicity of choosing the disk and partition to recover, while advanced users can alter numerous settings to improve the recovery progress. You can attempt recovery many times as this program doesn't alter the damaged drive but recreates the found data in memory to save it to another drive.
Directory and file searching are made easy through a wizard-like approach, but the scan process took quite a while. The program successfully identified our test machine's file system and listed recoverable data, but demo restrictions limited recovery to a single folder. The program works off a bootable CD to help recover damaged single-drive systems.
It is easy to use for novices, but configuration options offer strong tools for advanced users. Anyone suffering from a damaged hard drive will find this application's results acceptable.
Publisher's Description
From DIY Datarecovery:
iRecover supports all major file systems: FAT, FAT32, NTFS (all versions) and Linux Ext2. iRecover is a one-stop solution for undelete, unformat, partition, RAID, and image recovery. Windows 2000/XP/Vista basic and dynamic disks are supported. iRecover offers a powerful RAID 0 and RAID 5 recovery module that will automatically detect RAID parameters such as stripe size and disk rotation.
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"Saved my life!"
Version: iRecover 3.4
Pros
Helped me recover 3 years of college work, amazing product even as a trial version
Cons
A little hard to find the correct files after recovery
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"Life saver"
Version: iRecover 3.4
Pros
External drive had multiple errors that lost 75000 business files. All of those files were found and restored. Easy to use and a lot cheaper than the other stuff I looked at.
Cons
It takes a while but when you have that many files on a terabyte drive you would expect it to take some time.
Summary
IF you have had a crash it is a great program even for the novice.
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"Works better than other programs!"
Version: iRecover 2.1
Pros
It recovered all my data off a 500GB drive in several hours. Most other programs I looked at couldn't seem to do this! Can recover well from dynamic hard-disks with missing boot sectors.
Cons
First of all, it is quite expensive, and although it recovered every file, it did not restore them all to the right place but instead, loads of my files were restored to a 'LostDirs' folder meaning I had to re-arrange them.
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"1 tool to recover them all"
Version: iRecover 3.1
Pros
My new employer had a dead LaCie bigdisk with a lot of data on it. This device is a raid 0 array and the problem was that the controller had failled. Fortunately the two disk were in perfect condition.
In nearly one year a lot of people tried to recover the data. The informatic service in particular failled at it, and my boss was beginning to resign on that issue. Wanting to make a good impression I decided to give it a try. I try some software tools without any good results. These tools didn't find the correct parameter for this raid array. The fact is that the files on these disk are not common and I think that most of the recovery tools base their analyse on known format.
And then I find that iRecover tool. The process was very long. But like we say in french "petit train va loin". The software made it and found the good setting to get these data back. With the trial version I saw the root directory and all the sub folder. I rapidly ordered the full version and begen to recovery. My boss didn't beleive it at first.
That's a really good software I most say. I'm sure that it offers A lot of other features and I don't know if it is all that good. But to recover data from a hardware raid 0 that has failled it work's well!
To steps are easy and intuitive. The software mostly make everything by itself.
Thanks!
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"good"
Version: iRecover 3.1
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"Recovered ALL photos from SD memory disk"
Version: iRecover 3
Pros
In a hurry to take a photo using dying batteries in my camera, I mistakenly chose 'format' when presented with cancel/continue as it was malfunctioning. It was the end of a long day of photo taking.. 140 photos gone.
I scoured the web for all undelete and unformat applications. None were fully effective.
I found DIY DataRecovery IRecover and crossed my fingers. It was very very slow and thorough. It took about 4 hours to complete.
I was happy beyond belief. All the photos were there to restore. The software saved our precious photos and my sanity. Thank you!
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"Worked for me"
Version: iRecover 2.1
Pros
I needed to recover a couple of files which I forgot to copy before re-installing Windows. This application did it quickly and didn't charge. The other applications I tried all found the files but wouldn't recover them without purchasing a full license
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"It did what it said it would do"
Version: iRecover 2.1
Pros
Intuitive interface; clear instructions; useful help files; a convincing trial version that convinced me to but the full product in case I have other horror stories of so called "experts" telling me that my data is unrecoverable.
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"Maybe it's good, but it doesn't work"
Version: iRecover 2.1
Pros
It works fine on Windows when recovering files from FAT32 drives.
Cons
When runned on Windows XP SP2 and Seagate SATA drive I couldn't recover files from Ext2 partition no matter what I tried. The program reports an error (it can't find valid Ext2 partitions ?!), although the partition is valid and Linux installed on it is working like a dream. To put it simple, THE PROGRAM DOES NOT WORK FOR EXT2 PARTITIONS ON A SATA DRIVE.
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"What a MAGIC set of tools.... I HIGHLY recommend both iRecover and DiskPatch!"
Version: iRecover 2.1
Pros
What a MAGIC set of tools.... I HIGHLY recommend both iRecover and DiskPatch!
I successfully recovered all data from a 147GB data partition with iRecover. Then with DiskPatch I (i) rectified the drive geometry, (ii) fully recovered the whole 147GB data partition, (iii) fully recovered the XP Pro partition and (iv) now have the 320GB SATA II disk booting again!
Great set of must have tools.
Thanks DIY DataRecovery team.
zsleo
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