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<title><![CDATA[By: Tony]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108315</link>
<description><![CDATA[^^^^ Windows Vista 64bit]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:33:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tony]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108314</link>
<description><![CDATA[Install went fine, registration went fine...but when I go to use it, its not finding ANY drives, I just get a blank page with nothing to select to make any type of recovery. All of the buttons work, because when I click one it tells me to select a drive...but there are none to select. Cant figure out why its doing that, but as it sits it worthless, just a blank screen with some buttons.

Running Windows Vista.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:29:36 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Violet4714]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108312</link>
<description><![CDATA[---sorry if this goes thru twice...would like to blame bad gateway, but it was me---


this program reminded me of prior giveaway "Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Professional 4.3.6"


tested on XPSP2, MCE, 32


iCare Data Recovery: 
required direct disk access; fixed window size on opening, can resize to fullscreen after choosing recovery type;requested internet access during recovery process; options to filter, find file by name/type, preview, choose list or thumbnail; blue "u" for unknown, red "d" for deleted; if a help file was included, i didn't see it (sorry)...


Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Professional 4.3.6:
required direct disk access; resizeable window on opening; RPC request during recovery process; options to filter, find file by name/type, preview, choose list or thumbnail; blue "u" for unknown, red "d" for deleted; help file within program; ability to view state (text/hex/image); ability to save prior scan results, so re-scan is not required (i only tried this with deep scan)...


these two programs were quite similar to me...


Recuva:
on my pc opens fullscreen, can be resized; does not ask for direct disk access or internet access (unless update check is selected); options to filter, find file by name/type, preview; ability to view state (text/hex/image); at-a-glance views (red/unrecoverable, green/excellent, etc), filename, path, last modified, size, state, comment (EX: No overwritten clusters detected); if a help file was included, i didn't see it (again, sorry)...


file recovery, light scan, 1gb flash drive:


iCare Data Recovery: 
just under two minutes; 77.42mb; variety of files (png, ogg, zip, etc.); zips were corrupted, mileage varied on the others, but overall good...


Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Professional 4.3.6:
just over two minutes; 57.36mb; and again: variety of files (png, ogg, zip, etc.); zips were corrupted, mileage varied on the others, but overall good...


note: iCare recovered file "$RmMetadata"---@20mb; Easus recovered "My Music", "My Pictures", "My Videos" that i had copied...which accounted for the size difference (the iCare files were larger)...


Recuva:
@2 seconds!; 57.3mb; and again: variety of files (png, ogg, zip, etc.); zips were corrupted, mileage varied on the others, but overall good...


note on recovery: iCare and Easeus placed everything in same-named recoved files (EX: images, music, etc.); Recuva placed everything in the selected file, unsorted (you can choose &amp; sort them then recover to a specific file---a little more work, but probably sorted better for you in the future)...


file recovery, deep scan, same 1gb flash drive---formatted to FAT from NTFS after moving files to pc (too much coffee tonight...):


iCare Data Recovery:
two flash drives showed up to select from: both showed FAT, &amp; contained the same files (?); @two minute scan (each); 685mb &amp; 685.26mb; this recovery also included CAB files; results the same: zips were corrupted, mileage varied on the others, but overall good...


Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Professional 4.3.6:
@five minute scan; showed one drive, two results to choose from: NTFS &amp; FAT16; @1.40gb; again: this recovery also included CAB files; results: not all zips were corrupted, mileage varied on the others, but overall better...


note: the NTFS file (744mb) contained the files that were moved to my pc before format---these had the best results (zips seem ok on quick test, .exe ok, images good, one unidentifiable file); the FAT file contained the items recovered during the light scan...


note: no, i do not have any idea how i recovered over 1gb from a 1gb flash drive...


Recuva:
@two minute scan; 9.97mb      : (         ; JPG, PNG, mp3, one ZIP: all ok, CAB: clueless commenter does not know (sorry), all numbered (no names recovered)...


note: i do not know if this is because of Recuva being the only of the three that does not get direct disk access...i will leave that to Fubar whenever he returns, as i expect him to be his usual Frank self and correct any errors i've made (i blame the coffee, oreo's, &amp; 5am time...lol...)...


my preference until today was Recuva (freeware) &amp; Easeus (paid), tho' i was pleased with iCare...i was hesistant to test it until reading the comments about portability (haven't tried that yet), &amp; mike's comment about what hits the OS (i look for the OS impact comments the most---usually Fubar &amp; mike are great with this)...


light scans: freeware Recuva is way faster, results as good...
deep scans: still looks like Easeus...


iCare needs more testing, but portable is always good...and would appreciate any comments concerning the direct disk access question...


thank you iCare &amp; GOTD]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:37:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: GuruTJ]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108311</link>
<description><![CDATA[Installed and activated ok on win xp sp2 
use the GOTD download and nothing is required — you don’t have to do anything to register although that 32kb thing makes you think it isn't.

The readme file usually has an Activate.exe in it, this one automatically activates even if you think it didn't, don't knock GAOTD for an overlook on the developers part.
I get a lot of stuff from here and have for years, some good, some not so good but always free on the day it's given away.
Thanks iCare Recovery Software Ltd
Keep up the good work GAOTD team

~TJ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:53:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: graylox]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108310</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even the best online tutorial can't help me, when I am not able to go online, or when I have only a slow connection.
So it is an absolute requirement to attach a tutorial and help function to the programme. Especially for such a complex process.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:19:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Richard]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108309</link>
<description><![CDATA[***Though the software says it is not registered, it can recover files of any size***]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:14:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tkelly46]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108308</link>
<description><![CDATA[This program does not work when I click on an option like deep scan all I get is a blank screen were the I am supposed to select a drive or partition, I can reinstall it and it will work one time and then it does not work if I try it again! anyone else having this problem?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:40:47 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: BuBBy]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108307</link>
<description><![CDATA[<strong>@17 - Ray H</strong> 
<cite>If you click on DOWNLOAD,
and then go down to where it gives a choice of DOWNLOAD or LEARN MORE,
and then click on LEARN MORE, then scroll down, you will see on the left had side that it says “Compatible with Windows 7″.</cite>

Ray, You are clicking the wrong link - The "Download or Learn More" links refer to: Advanced SystemCare package, as is explained on the "Learn More" Page. Yes, the developers will support Advanced SystemCare on Windows 7.



BTW - I have got iCare to work on Windows 7 - but the fact that it doesn't crash or display error messages, doesn't always mean that it is problem free. There have been several "versions" of NTFS released over the years - and Windows 7 comes with a newer release of NTFS than shipped with XP, for example. The new version of NTFS is backward compatible with previous versions (XP, Vista etc) - but <em>iCare Data Recovery</em> could break when when trying to recover data stored using new NTFS features/attributes that the program doesn't know about. So a Windows 7 version doesn't necessarily mean a new install program, nicer buttons, and flashy progress bars, but what it probably will include is the ability to recognise storage features and attributes that were only introduced with the new release of NTFS that came with Windows 7.

In terms of the registered/unregistered problems - I'm not sure what I did wrong or right - but I just downloaded the GOTD giveaway version and installed it on Windows 7 x32, I have not seen any dialogs, buttons or prompts requesting registrations, and have had a 100% success rate at undeleting several files (over 50MB in size) across multiple drives.

It seems some users are having less success, running the setup and getting a "trial version". I'm leaving that problem for somebody else as I cannot reproduce it (After 4 separate &amp; successful installs)]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:03:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Mike]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108306</link>
<description><![CDATA[Tried it again and program worked properly. Folks this one works after all but be patient. Thanks GOTD.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:57:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Mike]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-v3-5/#comment-108305</link>
<description><![CDATA[Registration does not work. Bummer, Folks don't waste your time with this one .]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:49:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator>
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