File Recovery
Terry Currier, Vice President
WINNERS
2013 Southwest Technology & Computer Conference
Programs
Avira UnErase Personal CD Recovery Toolbox Data Recovery EASEUS Data Recovery
Wizard FreeUndelete Glary Undelete mmCARD Recovery NTFS Undelete Pandora Recovery PC Inspector File Recovery Quick Data Recovery Pro
Recover Files
Recuva File Recovery
Restoration file recovery
Scavenger Version 4
Search & Recover
SoftPerfect File Recovery
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery
TOKIWA DataRecovery
Undelete Plus
WinUndelete
Tested On 74 Files – including: MP3, DOC, PDF, JPG,
video, Excel, Zip, HTML, and Exe
Flashdrive
Files were deleted and drive formatted
SD card
Files were deleted and card formatted
Hard drive
Files were deleted and drive defragged
Ashampoo
Cost $14.99
Flashdrive – after formatting found nothing
SD card – recovered all 12 JPG, but 2 could not be used. Recovered all video
Hard drive – Hung up and I stopped it
Avira UnErase Personal
Free for personal usage
When recovering files it ask for a character for the first letter/number. It only gives 8.3 filenames.
Flash drive – it recovered most except for video and zip files
Hard drive – with no filter or direct folder to point to it found 14,241 deleted files. Could not find the ones I wanted.
Data Recovery (Tokiwa)
Download.com
Data Recovery (Tokiwa) Besides being free this program has a plus in that
it does not need to be installed. It starts up just by clicking on the file. After that just click on the drive and tell it to scan for deleted files. You can speed up the search by typing in part or all of the file name you are looking for.
For the flash drive it found everything
With the SD card it found the .mts but not the .jpg files.
With the hard drive it would take too long to run
Data Recovery (Tokiwa)
Scan of external hard drive
Data Recovery Wizard
from EASEUS www.easeus.com
Data Recovery Wizard from EASEUS Price: $69.95. They released a new version which will
allow you do recover 1GB of deleted files for free.
With the flash drive is found everything.
With the SD card it found the all, but 1 could not be recovered
With the external drive it said it would take about 7.5 hours. I stopped it after about 3.5 hours, it did not list the folder I deleted files from (\Deleted files)
It does have a preview option and for the hard drive you can specify a folder saving time. Also search by file type, date, size, or other parameters.
Data Recovery Wizard from EASEUS
Data Recovery Wizard from EASEUS
File Scavenger
File Scavenger
Cost: $49.95
http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm
Looks like it would recover everything (demo version), but with the scan of the external hard drive it did not find the deleted files folder (lots of others.)
File Scavenger
Limited recovery
FreeUndelete
FreeUndelete
Flash drive – recovered all but one video
SD – recovered all but one video and one JPG picture
Hard drive – very fast scan (under a minute) for the whole drive. It found others, but could not the deleted test files.
Glary Undelete
Glary Undelete
Flash drive it found everything, but with the SD card it found the .mts video files but not the \DCIM folder or .jpg pictures.
It completed a scan of the hard drive in under an hour. For the hard drive it did not find the files I deleted.
There is a preview feature to insure it is the jpg file you wanted.
Glary Undelete
mmCARD Recovery
mmCARD Recovery 3.5.3.9
cost $27.00
Strictly for digital pictures, and multimedia
My Canon video camera records its HD video in .mts format files. It did not find any of those in fact it showed them as .jpg files.
NTFS Undelete
NTFS Undelete
Cost: $39.95 with updates for two years. From ESupport. Demo only program, and their license says only for one computer.
It did scan my 2GB flash drive and found everything. There is a preview feature for graphic files (jpg, png, and gif), and it even showed a preview for pdf files.
For the SD card it found the .mts files, but not the .jpg files.
With a quick scan of the hard drive it completed the scan in under two minutes. But it did not find the deleted test files.
It has a filter feature so you can put in all or part of the file you are looking for. Also filter by date, or size.
Pandora Recovery
www.pandorarecovery.com
Pandora Recovery
It has a preview so you can see which pictures you want to recover.
For the flash drive it found everything except for the two video (mpg & mp4)
With the SD card it found all pictures, and video
On the hard drive I could point where to look, it found everything.
Pandora Recovery
Pandora Mobile Recovery ($19.95) is a portable version of Pandora Recovery that requires no installation and is distributed on a 1 GB USB thumb drive as part of the Pandora PowerPack. Pandora Recovery can be run directly from the USB drive and deleted files may be recovered to the drive.
PC Inspector
PC Inspector File Recovery
Free, but very slow with the scans. Does not work quite right with Windows 7
On Flash drive it discovered everything, but crashed before restoring.
With SD recovered only video files
Did not try with external USB hard drive it would take far too long
PC Inspector Smart Recovery
Only recovers graphic files and wav
Quick Data Recovery Pro
Quick Data Recovery Pro Scans are very fast
Found everything on flash drive. Did not find the .jpg files on the SD card Hard drive it did not file the deleted files from
the \Deleted files folder.
Cost $49 or $79 for pro-plus version
Recover Files
Recover Files
Cost: $39.95 (use to be free years ago)
Trial version looks pretty good. Nice break down of deleted file types. Scan is fast and looks like with would get everything from the flash drive. It will give you 30 days to try it out, but it will recover only one file and limit it to under 256MB.
With SD card it only found the .mts video files.
Hard drive again did not find the files
Recuva File Recovery http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Cost – used free version (no support)
Recuva File Recovery
Flash drive – found all of the files
SD Card – Found only the .mts video files
Hard Drive - Able to point which folder: Quick scan it found nothing. Did a deep scan it took 2 hours found most of the files.
Search & Recover
From iolo technologies www.iolo.com
Search & Recover From iolo technologies www.iolo.com
Flash drive - it found and recovered everything.
SD card - it found everything but one picture could not be
used.
External hard drive it took over 4 hours to scan – would be nice to be able to direct it to a specific folder. It did find everything.
On the toolbar there is a “Filter Results” feature. Once inside it I can tell it to look for. I do wish it was at the start of the search.
SoftPerfect File Recovery
from SoftPerfect www.softperfect.com
SoftPerfect File Recovery
Very fast scans, no installation is required. Small, 500KB, standalone file.
Flash drive - found and recovered everything.
SD card it found the video files only.
Hard drive it did not find the files deleted in the Deleted files folder.
WinUndelete
WinUndelete
Cost $49.95 demo version
You can specify what type of file you want it to scan for.
Scans are very fast.
SD card it found the three .mts (HD video) files, but for some reason it did not find any .jpg (picture) files, even after telling it to specifically look for them.
Undelete Professional from Diskkeeper $49.95 www.diskeeper.com
Undelete Professional
Undelete® file recovery software replaces the Windows recycle bin with a catch-all Recovery Bin™ that intercepts all deleted files, no matter how they were deleted. The Recovery Bin displays information about each deleted file including the file owner, the date and time the file was deleted and allows for easy recovery.
It does not have a preview window to make sure of what you are recovering.
It found and recovered all the MP3 files on the flash drive
It found 18 pictures files on the SD card, 6 of which could not be used.
No problem recovering anything with external hard drive. Zip, Doc, images, or MP3 files were all useable.
After formatting - I could not find anything after a format.
This is from a previous test I did about 4 years ago.