Would have liked to check this one out. Unfortuntely when I received the email in relations to this giveawayoftheday (March 13 at 9:47pm) and immediately logged on the site to download, it was not even available. Go figure why sending it if it's not avaialbe, I wonde.

reply 44#
I'm sure that there is no software can recover files which were rewritten.

reply 37# You could install in one partition and save to another partition, as long as not installing and saving to the partition which you have data to recover from. That's OK.

reply #37

You can install the program on a usb drive and recover files to the usb drive.

It’s really magic and great!
It recovers my lost file,thanks Data Recovery Wizard very much!
o(∩_∩)o..

My .2 cents...don't waste time with this product.
Use Recuva.

Easy install...
I tested it on my HD 5 times
delete 30giga files
start it
search
found all files
restored everything

the best free

works very well with vista
THANX GOTD

cool it's easeus
save my hdd many tims. but already i have this one. should no miss this chance

42# this is freee!!! don't be rigorous
I don't think anything can recover the overwriten files.
it works well on my machine, at least now.
worth to own!

Recoverable.......unless you delete with a program like Eraser first. ;)

To #31 This is not Easues Data Recovery Wizard but EASEUS Deleted File Recovery. Diffence program and not as good.

Why are all theses people talking about needing file recovery when Windows crashes?
Windows doesn't delete any files when it crashes, the only problem you will have is if you format your drive or reinstall to the same drive.
In that case files will be deleted that even the best recovery programs cannot recover.
I'd recommend a Live boot disk for these people.

This Application, as any other, is worth having "Just in case"
Would you rather be saying "If only" when the time comes?

Hey, everybody makes mistakes every now and then, including me. I'll test this out to see how it works for us... just in case. Thanks for your reviews, folks. Most people do NOT backup regularly, including professionals. ;-)

Regards,
Cheri

Can this recover excel files that were rewritten?

if anyone is missing todays' offer, Undelete Plus is an alternative freeware program providing a pretty good job - pretty intuitive and filters make searching for a deleted file an easy task - small download size (only 852 kb)

secure download here > www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Undelete-Plus.shtml

There are other software that kan recover even overwriten files
So forget this crap.
You just need an MFT editor than you kan edit the tabel and just take away the first singn in the old filename and "wips" the file is bak again it is not so clever to undelete an file that realy exist on the harddrive and only is marked as deleted for the OS.
It will be much more intresting if it has the ability to recover owerwriten files.

#37 Victoria

Installing the program will overwrite deleted files.
So you should install EDFR in another partition(on the same drive) or even on a usb (flash)drive.

(If you have nothing to undelete right now...go ahead and install it)

Recovered files should be saved to another (usb)(flash)drive to increase recovery levels.

I'm sorry GAOTD, but this software sucks. I installed it fine. I used it once and tried to recover some files. That failed. Next I closed it to get my recorder to make a review. Then when I opened it again, it wouldn't respond. The end. Programs is worthless, which is a hint of why it is free today.

Thank-you.

TedM

re. #18 & #21 (Bob)

Indeed there is a newer version of Restoration - Restoration 3.2.13. Got it - thank you!

Not really sure how different v3.2.13 is from v2.5.14 is - one website stated "Added Windows NT/2000 support." and "Added vacant clusters scan and all clusters scan function." in this newer version. v2.5.14 worked on XP already, so it needed to be updated to work on NT/2000???

I have run both concurrently (can do this since you just run the .exe!) - what is interesting is the "newer" version has the "Include used clusters by other files" option box grayed out (unavailable) where the "older" version allows checking that option...

The only difference I see in the two versions and their recovering capability is that the older version shows a file date format of YYYY/MM/DD and the newer version uses the MM/DD/YYYY format.

What do you think?

I found this a pain to install, not the usual standard that GOTD normally gives out. Clearly a Software manufacturer issue, not GOTD.
The warning about recovery and where to install was good and important. Glad that wasnt missed.
I gave this a try as I know a lot of the things Ive deleted of late. I found it a very poor show to be honest. As others have said there's better out there cheaper (as in if you were purchasing this programme)
One thing I wasnt to happy with was it went to check for updates, my Security software went haywire and wasnt happy with this prograame and the way it contacts home at all. It's not had many problems before with other software ive installed. I guess it's just the way it's been set up (the programme's update, not my security) that upsets my security. I denied it access anyway.

After a trial through the day, I'll settle for giving this a 4 out of 10. It's basic but even so and there's better freeware out there to make it 'not worth paying for'

Ive deleted it off my system. Thanks for letting me trial it GOTD.

The program states that you need to install it on a drive other than the one you want to recover data from. What if you only have one drive?

I will pass on this because I have other programs that try to do the same thing. My only complaint about this and other undelete programs is this. For single files such as songs or pictures they work great. But how about a program folder? You can undelete the program but it undeletes without any folder structure. You're just given a list of files to undelete. No program will work if it does not maintain the folders that were installed. Am I supposed to guess what folders to creat and which folders to place the files? When an undelete program can work for a deleted folder I will be interested.

First thanks to GOTD! They provide a great service!

Regarding the EASEUS Deleted File Recovery I downloaded and ran it. The Install ran fine, and I was happy to see the many warnings the author uses to advise the user not to install on the same drive that you are looking to recover files from, and that the destination drive for recovered files should be separate as well. The GUI is decent enough, if not plain and simplistic. But it works. Not a lot of depth to the features. The granularity of the recovery process you can set up is limited, which is unfortunate.

In short this is a good deal at "Free" but I don't think I'd pay too much for this one. On the market it isn't worth (to me) more than $20 bucks (US). To get the features I'd want you need to step up to their more advanced version "Data Recover Wizard". But even then there are better alternatives "out there" that do a better job and have a much better interface. I will say though the EASEUS did a decent job with the OLH and general content (helpful to most users).

That all said I still like the program Undelete-Plus which is free, has a usual interface, and is very fast (www.undelete-plus.com). Although this program only recovers to an extent (hence the name "undelete"). It doesn't do a lower level recovery from a format for instance. But for everyday use it has saved me more than once!

I give the EASEUS Deleted File Recovery C+.

For me Easeus Deleted File Recovery is the worst data recovery software I have ever come across. I installed it with quite a bit of difficulty on drive D and then tried to recover some pictures on Drive E and wow it recovered some pictures but nowhere as fast as recuva nor as smartly as undelete plus both of which are free and I use successfully. Easeus recovered some pictures right and some folders also but all the pictures recovered are already present in the drive E at present with a different name and in a different folder. Just to explain on that. It recovered a picture as 31.jpg in Folder X. However there was never any picture in that name in Folder X in the first place. So what it did was to copy a picture named 71.jpg in another folder Y and currently present on the disk and put it up as 31.jpg in folder X. The same result for all the 12 pictures it recovered. Recuva on the other hand recovered 33 pictures correctly.
SO,Sorry I don't want a recovery software that restores existing files on the hard disk to a different folder with a different name. Thankfully I restored my computer succesfully with my Restore It 7 software to the state before this crap was installed without even needing to uninstall it.

Their other program(s) may be great for all I know, but there seems to be enough uncertainty about this product as compared to freeware that does the same thing maybe even better, that I am going to pass on this Chinese puzzle.

My Windows crashed 2 days ago and I lot a LOST of files I want to recover. Your "ESP" must be turned on because I have been looking for a file recovery program! Thank you thank you!! BTW # 24..as far as your saying "Best to not delete files that you want to keep", when Windows crashes, you have NO choice (DUH) unless you are wiser and listen to your daughter who says "back it up" and foolishly you don't listen. (me).. but to answer that comment, many people do not CHOOSE to lose their files. I'm giving this a twirl becuase I want my stuff back. Thank you GOTD either way. I'm so surprised that you give these things away for free, even only for a short time, and people complain about them. They're FREE for pete's sake people - nothing is free anymore - be grateful! Sheeshh! Thanks again GOTD - I DO appreciate you anyway. So many people are so ungrateful!

Easues Data Recovery Wizard did what data recovery specialists couldn't for $500--saved most of the data on a hard drive that had been accidentally reformatted by Ubuntu. I tried at least ten other programs for a variety of prices and finally sent it off to the pros, who were no better. In a last ditch effort, I tried Easeus Data Recovery Wizard, and although it couldn't recover the names, it got back all of my documents and photos and most of my music. So I'm willing to bet that while this program may not look any different than a zillion freeware programs, it's got some powers that you won't know about till you really need them. I'm a great fan of the company, as my next step was a $5,000 file recovery company--which I could never have afforded.

Wow... The installation was a mess! Talk about ridiculous!
Opening the install executable does nothing more than place another setup file somewhere. (C:\ by default)
Then you have to open that one and THEN it's installed.
Why not just have it install from the start?
Doesn't give me much confidence in the product. Especially when I can't tell if it's really a full version or not.
There's no licensing information in the "About" section for the program. I haven't tried recovering files yet, but I don't have high hopes with the "WARNING!" it gave me when I went to install it. (Apparently, recovering FROM the C drive TO the C drive can over write important data and make my system unstable... Not a good thing to see when you first install a program.)

For those who dont like a program or do not find the need with it, theres is no obligation, its not like you paid for it... Geesh

"Not what I was hoping for"
I installed this program on Windows Vista Home Premium. What I was looking for is a program that allows me so search for a particular file or folded that was deleted for one reason or the other. What I found was nothing more then my tuning tweaking programs had built in, but far worse. Tuneup Utilities Undelete found every deleted file from the last month in seconds. So did Ashampoo Win Optimizer. This program took longer and then told me the files I am seeking cannot be found. Whats up with that? Maybe it works for some but not for me. All this installation did for me was create another job for Revo Uninstaller!

#23 - Can you tell us what you mean in a little more detail?

As a Systems Admin, I have been using EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional for several years, with excellent resuts. While I have no direct experience with this product, being from EASEUS, I would certainly recommend it as part of one's arsenal of utilities. When disaster strikes, and it will, you can never have too many tools at your disposal, even ones designed to do the same job.

I'll wait with downloading this one, and rather wait and see what others write about it. I already have Recuva, which no other program can compete with when it comes to speed. And also Pandora Recovery, which is the best and most advanced (free) alternative I've found so far.

There is nothing magical about data recovery.
If its not been overwritten then its still there just marked as deleted.
You dont need to pay to recover the data.
Recuva works just fine for free.

Best not to delete data that you want to keep!

this program will backfire if you have some private & confidential files.

Something almost none of these programs do, including this one, is recover deleted folders containing something. Which is very often exactly what is needed..

Alas, I keep forgetting which one does. It is a freebie, maybe Easy Recovery.

#1 that is not quite how it works. When you delete information from your computer, it stays on your hard drive and gets marked as deleted, then it waits there until something gets written over it. This program searches for files marked as deleted, and allows you to recover them if they have not yet been overwritten.

The freeware program, Recuva, is a lot better...this isn't worth $39.95

This doesn't seem any different than software I currently use = Restoration (Restoration 2.5.14) - it is free, is only 162k instead of 6MB, and does not require installation = just run the .exe.

Thank you for the offer GAOTD.

Just remember no program is a miracle and no program can restore files that have been deleted and overwritten.

This tiny program works as claimed :it *quickly* recovers *accidentally* deleted files.

Shift-deleted 'EaseusDeletedFileRecovery.zip' and it was restored into a nice directory tree or at a chosen location.
:)
As with all restoring programs:try to install/recover to another partition or medium

For more professional recovery the company refers to 'Data Recovery Wizard'.(raw data,formatted drive,bootable recovery cd ..)

Thanks anyway Easus.

The worst ever. Don't waste your time..

What if right now, my window crushes? This software will be deleted, right? I can't re-install it to get my window drive files back, can I?

I am sure this will be handy for many people that donot back up things and are rather forgetful.

That sure sounds like me.

We will see how ir holds up for the next few hours.

Good, the Delete File Recovery works for my computer. I just now successfully recovered my lost unintentional lost excel family finicial record. Thanks Giveaway, I enjoy it for free and which works for me.

Very limited file recovery ability.
EASEUS also make Data Recovery Wizard which is a much more functional product.

i deleted my important files accidently. It recovered the files i wanted several minutes after i run it. it's good!

i have data recvery wizard of EASEUS
it was the only product out of seven different product downloads that recovered my files.

It's great!
I have all my data back!
Thanks a lot!