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Wednesday, July 09, 2003

Data recovery utilities on pcq essential D

File Scavenger 2.1
This is a handy utility for recovering corrupted data, quick formatted hard drives, or even files that have been deleted from DOS or the Recycle Bin. It can also recover data from crashed hard drives or files damaged by viruses. It works on Win NT/2000/XP and undeletes or recovers data only for NTFS volumes. It has three search modes, Normal, Exhaustive and Defunct volume search. Normal search is the fastest. It searches for recently deleted files and displays files that it can recover. Exhaustive search is good if the disk has been reformatted or gotten corrupt. It scans all sectors of the volume and therefore also takes longer. The Defunct Volume search scans the drive for volumes that no longer exist, including broken RAID volumes. This mode takes the longest to scan the disk and therefore should only be used as the last resort for data recovery. File Scavenger lets you search files by name or type (like *.DBF for database files or *.doc for Word documents). Along with filenames, it also shows the chances of recovering data, that is good, poor and so on. The trial version is limited to recovering only up to 32 kB of data, which can be useful for recovering small documents. 

GetDataBack
This software is available for NTFS and FAT file systems. It has a simple and easy-to-use interface. The utility can scan a physical disk, a partition of the physical disk, a logical partition or an image file. It also allows you to create an image file of the specified disk. After it has scanned the specified disk, it shows you the file names it can restore from the disk. These are displayed in a very organized tree structure. One good thing about this software is that it allows you to directly access the files it found. You can open, view or run, any file you want, depending on the file. It also offers two search modes. The first one completely scans the disk and the second can do a partial disk scan. In the partial scan, you can specify the sectors you want to scan. It also gives you details about the disk that you’ve selected to scan. While this may be a good utility for recovering deleted files, it won’t recover corrupted files.

BadCopy Pro
This can be used to recover data from corrupted or defective mediums, like bad floppy disks, CDs or hard disks. It’s a fully automatic and professional data recovery software which can recover and restore nearly all kinds of data, including images, applications, documents and MS-Office files. It also offers three disk scan options. The first tries to rescue corrupted files, and the second and third are rescue lost files mode 1 and mode 2. If it can’t rescue data from one method, it’ll ask you to use the next alternative and so on. The evaluation version can only scan for lost or corrupted data, but not recover them. The utility only tags them as file1, file2 and so on.

Drupad Parsai 

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