Recovery Software

Art Scott

I was wondering if anyone has a trusted recovery software they have invested in ..... in the event that a hdd dies or a cd/dvd or flash card dies or becomes corrupt?

I am looking for a software that is affordable and will work on all types of storage media.

yes I googled, msn'd, yahoo'd.....

I am here posting cause I would like to hear from people not paid to say this or that product is great.

marklarry28

Scott,
I use "Active Undelete 5.1" $39.95, works really good.
http://www.active-undelete.com/

I had use this 3 times.

1- My friend deleted his pix from his memory card. restore all
2- My client formated her harddrive, I couldn't restore. I sent the HD to a restore company, they couldn't restore as well

3- I had another client with a damage HD, restore all important docs.


I highly recommend this tool, works great for me and have a affordable price.

claudermilk

For CD/DVD, I've had amazing success (100%) wiht IsoBuster. The price is right,too. I will send them the upgrade fee since the utility saved my butt, though.

Art Scott

Greatly appreciate the answers!!!!

wxwax

Photorescue is highly regarded. But it doesn't do hard drives.

SpeshulEd

if its a problem with a compact flash card, you should be able to run "chkdsk" in windows and it should fix the problem.

I've had to do this before with audio on a corrupted card. Got my whole recording back.

Not to mention, its already a windows utility on your computer.

As for hard drives, I've used HDD Regenerator in the past...I found a free download on the web someplace, but it looks like they sell it on their webby for $60 (I think I'd look for the free copy myself) http://www.dposoft.net/ - I've read about it on computer geek type message boards and its held with pretty high regard.

Richard

I have used PhotoRec successfully to recover Canon raw files from a CF card that I accidentally erased. It supports many different file types. It will work with hard disks and CDs as well, though I never tried those. It's freeware, but it is a bit geeky. There is a companion program called TestDisk which can recover lost disk partitions, but again, I have no personal experience with that. Fortunately.

FWIW.

Art Scott

Thanks to all ....I do appreciate it.