https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/ en Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125097 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:36:11 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125097 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125096 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:07:55 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125096 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125095 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:34:51 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125095 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125094 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:05:24 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125094 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125093 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:19:16 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125093 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125092 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:57:51 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125092 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125091 "Will it be possible to re-install the software after Windows reinstallation using given serial number?" iCare Data Recovery phones home, so unless the developers say otherwise, I'd *guess* probably. * * * #5: "when i select advance recovery, there will be a “recover” button. if i click “recover”, will it scan the drive first or will it recover all the deleted data? i dont wanna recover all my data, just the selected ones." iCare Data Recovery works much like recuva & many (most?) other, similar apps -- you tell it what to scan, click the button, & it parses the data it finds on that partition. When it's done scanning, which can take quite a long time [it has to look at everything -- not just files you know about], you're given a list of files you can try to recover... check the box next to those you want. iCare doesn't leave that file view after you've recovered however many files, so you can make new selections & recover those too.]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:54:51 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125091 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125090 "That means that the program could be distributed as a simple archive, without an installer, and work without problem from any folder. ... The key is written to the registry, so the program is not truly portable." FWIW, while I haven't done testing with a mod of v. 4 yet, with prior versions I've used the portableapps.com format to store that registry key in the folder with the app -- no registry writes nec. Alternatively there are LiveXP packages that use/integrate portable apps... it takes ~10 minutes to create a bootable WinPE-like ISO, & when booted, it adds start menu shortcuts etc. for apps found in a special folder -- as part of that process it can add registry entries, run scripts setting up an app etc. * * * #16: "FOR BEST RESULTS SAVE FILES TO A EXTERNAL DRIVE, STICK OR DISC." FWIW, the important thing is to not write to the drive/partition holding the lost files, or you might overwrite them, making recovery impossible -- if you're recovering files from your system drive, it's best not to boot into that Windows install at all. External drives/devices work fine, though they're a bit slower usually, & more subject to AV software interference. * * * #17: "When I installed iCare 4.0 over version 3.8 I did not get any “Register” button. What happened? " I had this happen on *virgin* Windows installs [ones that had never seen iCare's app] -- I suspect it's a prob. with the program launching it's registration window process. About 1/2 the time re-install helped/worked. * * * #18: "I deleted a folder that was “too big for the recycle bin” Will this program be able to recover this? " Bearing in mind that each write to the disk/partition with the deleted folder lessens your chances, it's certainly worth a try. Note that you may/may not see the folder itself -- look for the files that were in it. When you do a deep scan a recovery app tries to piece together the chunks of data that made up individual files -- one app **might** work better than another on a case by case basis, so if you want/need the deleted files badly enough, it's worth it trying several. You can also try apps like EASEUS Part. Master or Part. Table Doc., or some of the Paragon apps that include rebuilding the MFT [Master File Table]... Note that with those 3 I'd suggest a sector X sector backup or clone 1st, just in case it makes things worse. * * * #19: "This software is not portable, so if you want to install on another system or to reinstall after a format, it will not be possible unless you keep the registration key or save the registry keys it changes (could use a sandbox software to catch the keys)." After modding it with Portable App Creator [portableapps.com forums], the last version at least has been running fine portably since last summer. Note that I did not worry about the many registry entries for "dsoframer.ocx" & it seems fine that way. [FWIW file recovery software that's non-portable is IMHO of very limited use (unless you enjoy yanking out -- or sector x sector cloning -- hard drives, so that was/is my main reason for making it portable.] * * * #20: "... So, if it absolutely critical that you do not lose any data at all, do not use the preview feature." You actually shouldn't be running anything on or from the disk/partition with the lost file(s). If the disk/partition you're recovering from is strictly storage, or another OS with a multi-boot PC then normally it's not a big problem -- Windows OTOH is constantly writing to disk, what with the swap file & constant registry & log changes. In fact, if you delete the wrong file on your system disk/partition [i.e. the one with Windows running on it], it's not a bad idea to immediately pull the plug -- you can run Windows error checking/repair later, after you've recovered what you need to.]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:45:10 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125090 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125089 [more on this later], but the results were the same. That's Not to say either is perfect -- unfortunately not long ago, because of a stupid mistake I had reason to try both apps along with several other recovery utilities, & none would recover a few very large video files, at least without a deep scan that would have taken 3X the time it took to re-create the missing files. And that was immediately after a simple delete on a drive that isn't, wasn't used for anything but storage & had not been written to, so there was zero chance anything was overwritten. The twin morals of the story are 1) back up, & 2) try not to do anything stupid -- like I did. ;-) iCare Data Recovery 4 is an update to the version 3.8.1 I believe I picked up at GOTD back around June of this year -- the iCare site lists change-logs, but the biggest difference you'll see is nicer graphics during scanning & recovery, plus a new [somewhat flaky IMHO] registration process... as in the included Help file you used to click a button in the program's window, but now get a separate, initial registration dialog. Sometimes it wouldn't appear, leaving no way to register the app, & a couple of times it froze on me, once requiring a hard boot to get rid of the running process. Installation mainly does 2 things -- it expands the 17 needed files into the program's folder [~6 MB], & it registers "dsoframer.ocx" with Windows... otherwise 2 iCare keys + 1 for uninstall make up the ~200 new registry entries. To give the deep scanning a whirl I ran some tests on an 8 GB USB stick [deep scanning large disks/partitions takes a loooong time], & found that iCare Data Recovery would only access the device in "Lost Partition Recovery" & "Deep Scan Recovery" modes -- Recuva doesn't have that limitation, allowing me to do a quick scan, which in this case was all that was required [to test I copied & later deleted 2, 2 GB video files, 1 doz graphics files, + 3 P/Shop images (~30 MB ea)]. iCare's deep scan also found a huge number of files deleted weeks ago -- a couple quick spot checks showed recovered files that were usable, but it would take a couple of days to check each & every one. I turned the older version of iCare Data Recovery into a portable app [using Portable App Creator], & expect this version 4 to work the same way -- beyond personal preference, it's a HUGE plus with data recovery, backup/restore, partitioning apps etc. -- here's why it's so important with data recovery... Simplified, storage devices/hardware have a table of contents listing where every part of every file is located physically on that device. This storage itself is divided up into small chunks of data -- a file fills up 1 sector, then the next, then another & so on until the complete file's written to disk. That 8 GB USB stick has ~16 mill. sectors, so there's a LOT of these small pieces making up the average file. When a file gets lost [e.g. deleted] it's not in the TOC any more, so data can be overwritten -- overwriting 1 small sector can destroy a file, so if you lose a file, the Very Last Thing you want to do is write to that disk. If the disk/partition with the lost file is also the one with Windows on it that you boot from, you have 3 choices -- 1) physically remove the drive & plug it into another PC/laptop, 2) boot into another OS [e.g. a WinPE type environ] & clone the drive (sector by sector), running recovery software on that clone, or 3) boot into a WinPE type OS & run data recovery software there. Obviously # 3 is easier, but it only works if you can run the data recovery app, & 9 times out of 10 that means it has to be portable. [Boot-land.net has packs for download that, using your XP, Vista, or 7 install disc/ISO, can give you a bootable WinPE-type OS in ~10 minutes. For more forensic type use some might be interested in moa -- check sanbarrow.com]]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:50:12 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125089 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125088 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:11:34 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-0/#comment-125088