https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/ en Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72122 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:27:48 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72122 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72121 THIS IS FIRST RATE STUFF! At this pace I will have finished the recovery by tomorrow! I am very happy. Of course there will be a load of old temporary internet files, but it is up to my friend to scour through all the pics and decide what they want and don't want. To the Author(s) / Developer(s) you have created a very nice piece of software here, I will defenitely be referring to everyone I know that needs to perform data recovery! For ease of use and successful recovery this is the best I have tried yet! Well Done! Thankyou GAOTD! You have hit the bullseye with this offering!]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:36:59 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72121 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72120 Active Boot Disk. It's pricey, but a trial is available. #23, sarah/mmmcherries, see if there's a computer user group in your area. They can help you with issues, and most have computer classes. Or find a geek who can help. For learning about computers, there's Help and Support built into most versions of XP/Vista (it's generally a hybrid of OEM and Microsoft help). Apart from the web, there are computer books for beginners and DVD-ROM tutorials. I'd start with Windows Help and Support and whatever your OEM provides, you can learn most of the basics from that. It should be on your Start menu, and should also appear when you press F1 (after selecting an empty area of your desktop, otherwise you may get program-specific help). #53, Bruce Slemmer, and others asking about CDs and DVDs, they use a different file system. Various other recovery programs support those, such as iolo Search and Recover. #61, Terry, see #84, Fubarfan2, for a good explanation of DEP. Full DEP protection is normally off unless you select it. However, that's not your registration problem. You didn't say what version of Windows you're using. Some programs need to be activated from an administrator account, and some Vista programs need the program and/or Activate to be run as an administrator (if I comment on an offering, I note that sort of thing). I assume that you extract the contents of the giveaway .zip files and read the Readme before installing (while extracting first isn't always necessary, it can be, and I strongly recommend doing so). FYI, on NTFS XP/Vista volumes, some types of .zip files should be unblocked before extracting, such as Microsoft Sysinternals utilities. Right-click the .zip file, select Properties, and if an Unblock button is present, select it. Normal GOTD giveaways don't require unblocking. Some general notes on recovering. As others have mentioned, anytime your computer is on or booting, at least your system drive/partition/volume is being modified and potentially recoverable data is being lost. Defragmenting a volume overwrites most recoverable data. Recovery must always be done to another volume because recovery programs don't recover files in-place, they make another copy, which can overwrite recoverable data, including the very file being recovered. Some comments on Recuva, especially for those who said it didn't work. Make sure you have the latest version, and pay attention to the options. The Deep Scan is a sector scan, and looks for file signatures rather than relying on the file tables on the disk (only try it if the normal scan doesn't find what you need). Recuva has a heavily context-menu (right-click) oriented UI. Files whose condition is anything other than excellent cannot be fully recovered (I hate the way it lists files which can't be recovered at all). Files, even large files, listed as having excellent condition may still not be recoverable, the condition is merely an estimate based on the information in the file tables. Recuva could be improved in many ways, such as not listing files whose sizes are larger than the free space on the drive as being recoverable.]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:11:21 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72120 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72119 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:28:17 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72119 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72118 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:06:41 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72118 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72117 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:35:25 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72117 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72116 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:21:01 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72116 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72115 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:56:31 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72115 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72114 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:47:56 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72114 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72113 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:48:38 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multi-recovery-stage/#comment-72113