Review of Recover My Files Data Recovery Software
Written by Shareware Rating on September 26th, 2010 in Reviews.
Tags: Data Recovery, data recovery software, disk recovery, File Recovery, recover deleted files, undelete
Recover My Files Data Recovery Software is a powerful utility which will recover deleted files or formatted or corrupt hard drives.
Recover My Files is safe, secure and reliable. Recover My Files is designed so that it does not alter the contents of the drive being searched. This way you can evaluate the software with confidence and determine if your files can be recovered.
The version of Recover My Files that is downloaded from our website is fully functional. It will allow you to preview the contents of documents and graphics that it locates on your computer. You must purchase a product activation key before you can save your files. You must save files to other storage media (eg. Second hard drive, floppy disk, USB drive, network, CD or DVD etc).
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What type of search should I run on my computer with Recover My Files?
When you start Recover My Files data recovery software using the desktop icon, you are presented with a wizard screen that provides two data recovery options, “Recover Files” or “Recover Drive”.
As a general data recovery guide:
- if you have deleted files, first use the “Recover Files” option;
- if you have a corrupt or formatted hard drive, first use the “Recover Drive” option
- try the “automated” mode first, as it is pre-configured for the best and fastest search on most systems.
Running the “Recover Files” search
The “Recover Files” options is best used when you hard drive is running correctly, but:
- individual files have been deleted and emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin;
- files have been deleted and bypassed the Windows Recycle Bin;
- files have been deleted by a virus, trojan or worm;
- a file of the same name has saved over another important file;
- files have been lost by some other unknown cause.
To search for deleted or lost files, click the “Recover Files” button then “Next” to proceed. (NB: If your data loss problem relates to loss of data from the entire drive, select instead try the “Recover Drive” option).
Running the “Recover Drive” search
The “Recover Drive” options is best used when:
- a drive has been formatted;
- a drive has been formatted and windows has been reinstalled;
- a Windows recovery or system restore has resulted in a fresh installation of Windows and the previous user created files are missing;
- a drive letter has gone missing;
- the drive is recognized by your PC as RAW and not files can be read;
- or some other problem has effected the entire contents of the drive.
Recover Drive
The Recover Drive search is best used when:
- a drive has been formatted;
- a drive has been formatted and windows has been reinstalled;
- a Windows recovery or system restore has resulted in a fresh installation of Windows and the previous user created files are missing;
- a drive letter has gone missing;
- the drive is recognized by your PC as RAW and not files can be read;
- or some other problem has effected the entire contents of the drive.
Click the Recover Drive button, then click the Next button.
Selecting the disk for data recovery
The next wizard screen performs a scan to identify the devices (hard drives, digital camera, USB drive etc) that are connected to your computer. Select the device you wish to search by clicking it with you mouse to high-light it.
When running a “Recover Drive” it is usually best to select and search the entire “Hard Disk”.
Look for the “hard disk” which is the size of your problem drive (“Hard Disk 0″ is usually where the C: drive is located, a secondary drive is “Hard Disk 1″, etc).
When you perform a recovery on a hard disk, you are telling Recover My Files to ignore any partitions (drive letters) that are found on the disk, and treat the entire drive as a single block of data. In many cases this is the best way to undelete all possible files and get data back. (Note: by searching the physical drive, Recover My Files will also find and display existing files which have not been deleted or lost).
“Automatic drive recovery. (Recommended)”
During an automatic drive recovery, certain pre-selected file types are used to assist in locating the missing file system. Recover My Files searches for these file types by locating the header / structure and footer and then uses the information found to help pinpoint the missing file system. These files are called “Lost Files”.
In Automatic mode, the pre-selected Lost Files types are Avi, EXE, iTunes, Jpeg, Microsoft Excel and Word and Zip files.
“Drive recovery using selected file types”
This option allows the user to manually select the file types to assist in locating the missing Filesystem.
It is suggested that you only use this option to change the pre-selected file types if you do not have any of the pre-selected file types on the problem disk. For example, if the problem drive had only HTML files on it, it would be necessary to select the HTML file type.
In most cases the common pre-selected file types will be adequate and additional file type selections will NOT be required to locate the entire file and folder structure containing all files.
You may consider adding it to the list if you have a specific file type that is essential to recover. The benefit of adding a file types is that in addition to helping locate the file system, you are simultaneously searching for the Lost File type by looking for its header, structure and footer. If the file system has been destroyed and cannot be recovered, you may still find the important file as a Lost File. However, be aware that adding file types will slow down the search. We suggest that you do not select more than 10 file types at any time.
