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.