Giveaway of the Day - Smart Data Recovery
February 6, 2008This giveaway is not available any more.
Smart Data Recovery is a data recovery tool for Windows operating system that supports the FAT and NTFS file systems. Smart Data Recovery is an effective and powerful, easy-to-use software program that enables the recovery of lost data.
Smart Data Recovery is compatible with almost all kinds of data storage – from computer hard drives to digital cameras. It also supports flash drives, USB drives, floppy disks, memory sticks, PC cards, multimedia cards, and secure digital cards. Smart Data Recovery is able to restore all sorts of files, including electronic documents and pictures.
It restores files from FAT32 and NTFS hard drives, has really simple interface and is compatible with Windows operations systems. Our aim is to prevent information loss, and prevent you from wasting your time and money. For different reasons, important documents and user files are sometimes lost. Without a recovery tool for documents and files, this may become a huge problem (one that leads to considerable inconveniences, and requires expensive solutions).
| User Rating: Rate It! | 82 comments |
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| System Requirements: | Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista |
| Publisher: | Smart PC Solutions, Inc |
| Homepage: | http://smartpctools.com/data_r... |
| File Size: | 1.97 MB |
| Price: | $49.95 |
This software was available as a giveaway on February 6, 2008, this giveaway is not available any more.
You can download the trial version of this software at http://smartpctools.com/data_r....
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Please note that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support; 2) No free upgrades to future versions; 3) Strictly personal usage.
THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWABLE BY LAW, END USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOWNLOADED SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
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To start with – I’ve already had a look at this program earlier. In fact much of the past week I have been “recovering” from an unknown “glitch” that wiped about 80% of my System/Boot Drive (including the entire windows folder) I returned to my PC to find it locked up, and rebooting… well let’s just say it wasn’t even almost successful.
I took a spare drive installed windows and booted from that so that I could survey the damage. At this point I had also found a backup RAID Array had lost it’s config, and on fixing that – those drives were not recognised either.
In a nutshell – while I wasn’t at the PC – I had effectively “lost” 2 of my 7 partitions (across 5 physical drives).
Now I used to do this for a living – and normally I would take a good look at the situation, map out what I needed to do, prioritize recovery and the order & dependencies on tasks, and so on. But this time – it was my computer I was operating on, so I turned everything off and went to bed.
Rushing into data recovery is often a sure way to end up worse than you started.
With a fresh head – I jumped onto another PC (fixing a dead pc, it helps to have a spare to work from). And had a look for what was available.
Straight from my bookmark folder – here are some freeware options. They are all basically “File Undelete” programs. I believe “Smart Data Recovery” is in that league. With it – you can get back a few files, if everything else is intact.
Recuva
Restoration
Undelete Plus
SoftPerfect File Recovery
The stakes were a lot higher for me, XP didn’t even recognise these as valid, formatted drives. No File System. No Drive Letters. The following (which actually has several programs available, looked to be a step up – and about as good as I could find in the “Freeware” or “Pay what it’s worth” support model).
Convar PC Inspector – File Recovery
But when you are recovering your data, if it is “Free” or “Fast” you shouldn’t care. The most important thing is does it work. If it works – you can put whatever price on it. On one of the drives were irreplaceable photos. Similarly – when it comes time to do true “data recovery” – perhaps rebuilding an entire file system from raw sectors – anything that works and makes your job easier (less stressful) is worth every single cent.
While I have no affiliation with them (I’d love a few licenses though, haha) the products at runtime.org really walk the walk and talk the talk.
Runtime Software
I use a freeware program called Eraser to shred files on my computer whenever I delete them. I know that many other people do same thing nowadays, in order to make sure that their deleted data is truly deleted so that programs like this aren’t able to recover them (done for security/privacy reasons). How then is this program useful except to test that your deleted data is truly erased and unrecoverable?
From BuBBy: If you have already manually run something to “shred” a file to make the file unrecoverable, this software will probably not help you recover the file. It is intended for people who perhaps realize half a second too late the file they are deleting is the wrong one. Obviously going back to shred the file is a fairly deliberate act. This software is to recover files that were deleted by mistake or unintentionally.
This software is free and small, so I think it would be no problem to install this and keep it on your hard disk for future use. Who knows when this software might come in handy.
And in case you don’t know, such softwares should be installed before the data is lost rather than later, because if the software “installs” on the sectors of the data you want to recover, the recovery would become impossible.
From BuBBy: That point is extremely important about installing new software or writing to the disk you want to recover from. Even running other programs from that drive can make your files ‘gone for good’. For example (and I haven’t checked this) does Smart Data Recovery write to the disk or generate any intermediate data files – I would suggest running recovery software from a different drive. In the case of trying to recover files on your Windows partition – even booting windows can overwrite those files.
Depending on how serious you are, having another drive to run windows and your data recovery from can make all the difference between success and failure.