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file recovery software recommendations

PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:21 am
by rookie2
now that I am finally on broadband I will finally get around to downloading a decent file recovery program (free/shareware if possible) - the photo gods have so far been good to me so dont want to push my luck any further

Is PC inspector still one of the best freebies?

cheers

R2

PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:02 am
by cawdor
Don't know about the freebies, but one of the best commercial data recovery programs is GetDataBack (FAT or NTFS). I have been using it for years, it has saved me a few times - well worth the money in my opinion.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:48 am
by Paul
Yep GetBackData is certainly worth the money, works every time even after a full format of the drive.
I tried most of the free stuff and it's nothing compared to GBD.
Just buy it, end of story! :D

PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:12 am
by Gordon
RescuePRO that comes on a mini disk with Sandisk CF cards worked very well on the only occasion I had to use it.

Gordon

PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:49 am
by rookie2
gordon wrote

RescuePRO that comes on a mini disk with Sandisk CF cards worked very well on the only occasion I had to use it.


is this just a recent thing with the the Sandisk CFs - I have a couple of older genuine CF cards but don't recall any mini disk.

as a beginner I think the getdataback program looks a bit full on - I would probably just take my PC back to my local guy who has done some upgrades and repairs

thanks guys

R2

PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:03 pm
by Critter
I use Recover4All with good success, provided I haven'd kept using the card/disk and overwritten the data

PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:07 pm
by Gordon
rookie2 wrote:is this just a recent thing with the the Sandisk CFs - I have a couple of older genuine CF cards but don't recall any mini disk.


I've only bought 1 Sandisk CF card, earlier this year, 2GB. It came with that, included in the package, so I cant say how long thet have been sending them out.

Gordon

PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:44 pm
by adam
Have a go with filescavenger as well :)

PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:32 pm
by Colcam
Bad Copy Pro http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/?rid=BadCopy&vid=3.80 has worked for me. I had a customer come to me to print some files on her SD card. She had 438 files on the card and NO backup. The card was corrupt, but all were recovered okay.
Col