Pros
It works where others failed -- as others have said! It also maintains the original names & the files open right up. Also, the free version seems to let you choose up to 20 gigs of data or 3 folders at a time --- and it lets you start again with no limit. Other software limited me to 1 gig & 2 restarts. So, in 5 sessions = 4 hours, I was able to recover all my lost data -- for free. I think I will buy this software next time so I can get it all back in one shot. I'm so pleased with it.
Cons
That it did not have a statement telling me how far the free version would go . I had to experiment with what it would allow me. But, I again, I am so pleased that it works.
Summary
It just works!
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Pros
EASY INSTALL/USE
FREE FOR IMAGING FILES
Cons
SOMEWHAT SLOW
Summary
JPEG files from a digital camera SD card were visible on the camera but when transferred to PC these were unreadable due to files being corrupted.
I tries/downloaded at least 7 other programs unsuccessfully, (one i have to pay for). ZAR recovery was FREE and worked instantly , recovering over 600 files which opened in their full resolution and without issues.
This is the kind of software I would recommend to everyone that need to recover data.
Thank you for helping recover our precious memories!
wait...did i mention that is was FREE???!! (for imaging files). Cheers.
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Pros
There's a free trial!
Cons
It didn't work
It isn't totally free
Summary
I was trying to recover data from my corrupted/damaged micro SD card. The program started to work but after 1 second the data transfer rate went down to zero and the program did nothing. I had tried disabling my antivirus. In the end I used the good old command prompt to fix my card...
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Reply by Thomas5020 on May 12, 2014
And yes, I did leave the program quite a while, it still did nothing
Pros
- Smaple Interface
- Very good data retrival
- Good even for first time user with liitle computer knowledge
Cons
- A bit slow (12 to 13hrs for 158GB data on 500GB Seagate Portable) for scanning
Summary
Stumbled upn this in internet search. Tried free version on sample data and then purchased keys.Used on Seagate USB 2.0 Portable drive 500GB capacity with 158GB data (mainly videos and pictures) along with HP110 mini 3738TU. Using for the first time. ZAR is just simple and easy to put in to use. Then it progressed smoothly to compele the drive in 12 hrs time. Retrived data transfer took another 17 hrs. In all it accomplished the job very professionally with gruelling perfection. Also retrived 4GB deleted data. I am very happy about this and all this me, a firt time user.
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Pros
Quite fast
Very easy to install
Retains folders in tact
You can choose what you want to recover
Cons
takes a long time to transfer from recovered folders to another destination (took me about 12 hrs for 550 gigs) This is probably normal but it is still a long time.
Summary
I purchased ZAR in desperation after having purchased Stellar Phoenix only to find out that the supplied keys didn't work. This worked straight away and when I finally got the keys to work on Stellar, I found that ZAR recovered much more data. I am very happy with this product and have used it on a hdd that I accidentally formatted, a hdd that became corrupt due to a virus and a hdd that somehow lost its registry. 100% success in every case.
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Pros
- Actually worked, when other software I tried failed
- FREE version
Cons
- Took a lot of time to complete (16GB micro SD card needed a few hours)
- Looks like it "hangs" when catches bad sector
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