Comments on: What are the Best Data Recovery/HDD Recovery Softwares/Techniques?

By: Sergey Vasilenkov

Sergey Vasilenkov — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:32:59 +0000

One of the best solutions on the market is Easy File Undelete software:

http://www.munsoft.com/EasyFileUndelete/

It uses unique modern algorithms to recover files that other software either recovers incorrectly or is unable to detect.
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By: Drago

Drago — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:59 +0000

I would say that this website offers the best free of charge solutions for data recovery issues. Check it out: http://www.freesoftwareworkshop.com/freeware/data-recovery/
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http://www.freesoftwareworkshop.com/freeware/data-recovery/

By: Compufix

Compufix — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:25:59 +0000

If you want the best go with a professional data/file recover program such as the experts use. R-Studio Data recovery. This will recover everything. I purposely formatted a hard drive to see how it would do and I recovered 95% of all the data. If you want a trail version of this software go to http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
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30 years building/repairing computers

By: Jessica Queller

Jessica Queller — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:04:59 +0000

If you have a lot of free space on your hard drive and accidentally emptied only one or two items from your Recycling Bin, I’d recommend a small Windows program called Recuva.
http://www.recuva.com

If you accidentally formatted your entire hard drive or deleted many files, I’d recommend a Linux live CD and Photorec.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/recovering-windows-files-with-a-ubuntu-cd-iii-deleted-files/
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By: achan_gendut

achan_gendut — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:43:59 +0000

I prefer use combination of freeware data recovery programs and doesn’t have a favorite programs. each program had plus excess and weakness. and I always choose portable version.
there’s many freeware portable data recovery like :
Recuva (recuva.com)
ADRC Data Recovery (adrc.com)
Avira Unerase Personal (free-av.com)
FreeUndelete (officerecovery.com)
Glary Undelete (glarysoft.com)
Pandora Recovery (pandorarecovery.com)
PC Inspector File Recovery (PCinspector.de)
Softperfect File Recovery (Softperfect.com)
Testdisk (cgsecurity.org)
or use linux live CD backtrack2 that specialize to recover lost and deleted data.
for purchased data recovery program I choose Get Data Back
hope it help
regards

Chandra
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By: gijoe1701

gijoe1701 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:09:59 +0000

My best experiences has been with mirrored RAID.

This essentially means that all data is mirrored to another drive. If one of the drives fails then the other drive is there to do the job seamlessly and can function until the faulty drive is replaced.

Most new motherboards support RAID arrays with SATA drives which now make this option open and affordable enough for home users. SATA supports ‘hot-swapping’ which means that you most likely dont even have to shut down your computer to change out the faulty drive!

I personally use SAS drives at RAID 5 through the use of a seperate controller card but that can be cost prohibitive for most.

Other than that, I use Norton Ghost which creates a snapshot in time of your computer and archives it to disk or DVD. If you need to go back to that snapshot, you can use Ghost to do it. Through the use of incremental backup techniques, this can be an effective means of making your system robust.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID