- A well designed user interface. Do it yourself data recovery software is often used by people with little computer knowledge. If it is not easy to use, it will not be any use to them; it may even do more harm than good.
- Developed by a company with a track record in data recovery. It takes time and continuous effort to develop and refine software to create one of the best data recovery utilities. Data recovery is a lucrative market segment and many new software companies are jumping on the bandwagon. There are also cheap or free products that may be capable of some basic undelete tasks but fail in cases where the data is still recoverable.
- Support for many different file types. The hallmark of a professionally developed data recovery software is that it can detect and piece together files of many different types, even where other clues to their location have vanished. The Power Search Technology in Uneraser and other Diskinternals data recovery tools can detect more than 160 different file types.
- Searching and filtering. An effective data recovery software will recover thousands of potential deleted and lost files, many of which will be files you are not interested in. Searching and filtering functions will save hours of looking through recovered files and help you find the ones you want quickly.
- Comprehensive file preview. Many data recovery products only have a basic viewer for recovered files that typically can display only popular image file types, showing everything else as raw text data. This is useless when trying to recover other types of file such as Microsoft Office documents. Together with search and filter functionality, a good previewer can save a great deal of time when trying to recover lost files.
- Run without installation. It is very helpful to be able to run the data recovery program without it having to be installed in the Registry of the computer it is run on. Although the DiskInternals products use an installer for convenience, they can be installed on to a USB drive or copied to CD and then run on another computer.
- Try before you buy. Unfortunately, not all lost files are recoverable. No-one wants to spend a lot of money only to find that their data cannot be recovered, so it is essential that a do it yourself data recovery product can be run in trial mode so that you can see whether it is able to find your files.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Features of good data recovery software
I am sometimes asked what qualities or features I consider to be important when choosing data recovery software to recommend. So here is a list of the things I look for.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Why Uneraser?
My intention in this blog is to write about various aspects of data recovery. For the benefit of those who find their way to these pages early on I thought I should write a few words about why we recommend Uneraser if you need to recover deleted files on a Windows computer. I will start with a little history.
Tech-Pro.net had its origin in a site developed many years ago in my spare time containing articles and information for IT professionals. It made a little bit of money from Google AdSense but was essentially non-commercial. Eventually the need arose to try to generate some income from the site. After an unsuccessful attempt at being a software developer we decided to focus on promoting software developed by other companies.
My original intention was to promote anti-virus and security software such as Kaspersky Anti-Virus which I believed to be the best product of its type on the market. I still do believe that, and we do still promote it, but the volume of anti-virus sales generated by the site has never been great and it became obvious that we would have to try something else if Tech-Pro.net were to be made into a business.
The greatest number of visitors to the site were looking for information on data recovery so it was decided to try promoting data recovery software. We evaluated and started to promote one file recovery product from a well-known developer of PC utilities. This sold quite well, but we did receive a few complaints about the product's performance and there were a number of requests for refunds so we decided to try to find something better.
This led us eventually to DiskInternals, a software company based in Ukraine that specializes in developing data recovery tools. We found that their products worked very well and were actively being developed and improved by a small team of people. This is important. Creating a basic functional data recovery product is not particularly hard but the amount of research and development needed to produce one that will succeed where others fail requires significant resources. Uneraser's Power Search Technology - which can recover lost files by searching for the "signatures" of specific file types - gives it and the other DiskInternals products a major advantage when trying to recover files that were deleted long ago or from a trashed hard drive.
Another example of the superiority of DiskInternals products is the ability to preview files in a "what you see is what you get" viewer before recovery. Most of the data recovery products on the market provide a basic viewer for GIF, JPG and BMP images, a text viewer for other files and nothing else. Uneraser can display all popular image formats, all of the Office document types and many other types of file. This is useful to enable you to identify recovered files when the original filename has been lost, but importantly it also allows you to see whether a file can be recovered intact using the free trial version, so you don't have to buy the software only to discover that your data isn't recoverable.
Uneraser beats the competition in other ways too, such as its ability to search for a file using a word or phrase, or even by the date it was last modified or the file size. A deep scan of a hard drive can produce literally thousands of recoverable files, most of which will not be what you want or will be fragments of files that are of little use. The search tool can really cut the time it takes to locate and recover the deleted file you are looking for.
Where most data recovery software requires you to save recovered files on another drive to avoid the possibility of overwriting data you may wish to recover, Uneraser offers a greater range of options. Files may be burned direct to CD or saved to an FTP server.
For all of these reasons we feel that Uneraser is the best deleted files recovery software for Windows currently available and that is why we recommend it.
My original intention was to promote anti-virus and security software such as Kaspersky Anti-Virus which I believed to be the best product of its type on the market. I still do believe that, and we do still promote it, but the volume of anti-virus sales generated by the site has never been great and it became obvious that we would have to try something else if Tech-Pro.net were to be made into a business.
The greatest number of visitors to the site were looking for information on data recovery so it was decided to try promoting data recovery software. We evaluated and started to promote one file recovery product from a well-known developer of PC utilities. This sold quite well, but we did receive a few complaints about the product's performance and there were a number of requests for refunds so we decided to try to find something better.
This led us eventually to DiskInternals, a software company based in Ukraine that specializes in developing data recovery tools. We found that their products worked very well and were actively being developed and improved by a small team of people. This is important. Creating a basic functional data recovery product is not particularly hard but the amount of research and development needed to produce one that will succeed where others fail requires significant resources. Uneraser's Power Search Technology - which can recover lost files by searching for the "signatures" of specific file types - gives it and the other DiskInternals products a major advantage when trying to recover files that were deleted long ago or from a trashed hard drive.
Another example of the superiority of DiskInternals products is the ability to preview files in a "what you see is what you get" viewer before recovery. Most of the data recovery products on the market provide a basic viewer for GIF, JPG and BMP images, a text viewer for other files and nothing else. Uneraser can display all popular image formats, all of the Office document types and many other types of file. This is useful to enable you to identify recovered files when the original filename has been lost, but importantly it also allows you to see whether a file can be recovered intact using the free trial version, so you don't have to buy the software only to discover that your data isn't recoverable.
Uneraser beats the competition in other ways too, such as its ability to search for a file using a word or phrase, or even by the date it was last modified or the file size. A deep scan of a hard drive can produce literally thousands of recoverable files, most of which will not be what you want or will be fragments of files that are of little use. The search tool can really cut the time it takes to locate and recover the deleted file you are looking for.
Where most data recovery software requires you to save recovered files on another drive to avoid the possibility of overwriting data you may wish to recover, Uneraser offers a greater range of options. Files may be burned direct to CD or saved to an FTP server.
For all of these reasons we feel that Uneraser is the best deleted files recovery software for Windows currently available and that is why we recommend it.
- See Tech-Pro.net's review of Uneraser
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