Hetman Partition Recovery can unerase deleted files and folders, recover files from formatted, corrupted, repartitioned and inaccessible storage media.

Your comment is #21 and my comment to you does not have a number, but it's also counted as a comment nevertheless.

Hi Thomas!

I try send email to you several times (maybe four or more). Please send me another Email.

Sometimes software can recover 2GB from 1GB usb flash drive. Please read article about it from our blog - http://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/why-deleted-files-can-be-recovered.htm.

Please write more about your test. Which system do you use? Do you try Full scan mode for disk?

I have a W8.1 64 laptop. I tried the fast scan mode on disk C: = first partition of hte only physical harddisk.

But a full scan gives the same result.

You start program in virtual XP and then try found partitions on W8?

Please install Hetman Partition Recovery on Windows 8 and run analyze under W8.

You can use portable version if your want - http://hetmanrecovery.com/download/hetman_partition_recovery.zip. Unzip files on USB flash. Then connect drive to Notebook and start program under W8. After that run analyze for disc C:.

I will not install an untested program on my W8.1 64 laptop. I need it daily and cannot risk something goinq wrong. Therefore I run a portable. But your portable did not accept the key I got on your site earlier this morning. So I used a portable I made myself on a virtual XP, activated with the key. I ran that portable on the real W8.1 64 laptop, with the above mentioned results.

I will test your portable.

The portable ran "fine", but the results are questionable. What to think of an Excel file of 75GB??
The programme wanted to save it to the same partition it was located. All my data are on partition D, mostly in DropBox. It was no surprise to me that 75GB Excel file could not be retrieved.

Be thankful, as a computer-tech in the Great White North of America, the power isn't as good as the city, & with enough 'brown-outs' hard drives & computer equip weaken - or someone hits the wrong set of keys (my kids & my Mother (Mom)) and Ooops. I collect these kinds of programs, now that I am retired & have my mornings to myself - to experiment with this kind of giveaway & stay thankful - you NEVER need - have a great day everyone!

Read the readme.file - from TOP to bottom :)

Read more about data recovery algorithms in our blog - http://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/ntfs-file-recovery.htm.

XP-man, do you know of any recovery software that is windows based but can recover a Linux formated-with-Linus-files USB drive? Thanks. freecat

freecat
No experience in this area but possibly this first link will be of some help, the second link is purely a link to the program, best of luck.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/31450/tool-for-recovering-deleted-data-from-a-flash-drive
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Michael Miroshnichenko.
Thanks for the link to a really interesting write up on file recovery, well worth reading!

Thanks XP-Man. You are good; your comments are very useful and helpful. You are certainly an asset here to GAOTD. :) God Bless.

I think that it's great that you provided a list of alternative recovery software! But, I noticed that most are on a trial basis! Does that mean, that you can recover your files just once and that's it? Or, that it will show you the recovered files, but in order to download them, you have to pay to do that? Just curious that's all.

If this was meant to be a list of freeware alternatives then it's very misleading.

If it was meant to be a list of cheaper alternatives worth exploring, then it's badly flawed as well as mis-timed, seeing as how today's giveaway is just that -- free -- and the only time when it would be worth checking out against commercial rivals is if a re-install is necessary or if you're so impressed with today's software, you're considering buying it at retail.

I won't be alone in grinning wryly at all the silly instant upvotes given so unthinkingly to your post -- upvotes which may well make others arriving here think oooh, look, lots of other freebies found by Mr Hick!! --so here are the facts, provided as much out of fairness to other GOTDers as out of basic courtesy to today's developer:

Easus Partition Recovery (actually it's Easus Data Recovery): $69.95

7-Data Recovery: $49.95

Remo PRO Edition: $99.95 (there are cheaper versions but anyone would have to be an idiot to fall for this particular developer's selling pitch whereby "different" file types are found but others not -- yeah, right;

Stellar Partition Recovery: $119

MiniTool Data Recovery: $69

As will be evident, "if you want to save your dollars" then staying well clear of REMO PRO Edition and Stellar Partition Recovery is highly advisable, so I don't know why you've come on here to publicise them.

As an aside, I do wish when people post stuff like the above they would CHECK FIRST. It's not GOTD's responsibility to do so -- but yours.

Finally, seeing as how today's developer is on here -- and kudos to him for doing so -- I really would recommend that you re-visit your price point. You're up against a really, really BIG name in the form of Easus so you're going to be much better off commercially, going for volume sales on sticker prices that undercut Easus rather than persisting in following the bonkers route of developers like REMO and Stellar.

MikeR,
Quite agree, plus to be able to say that they are much better should be qualified by a statement explaining the tests done to be able make such a statement.

What makes each of the ones you've listed "better"? Have you actually used any of them?

The cons you mentioned are typical with the process of data recovery. They are not unique to this program. Similar programs cost $99 - $129.

Better to use Recuva,free and easy, portable available at https://www.piriform.com/recuva/builds

Please look in the readme.txt from download Giveaway_of_The_day

Hetman Partition Recovery Home Edition cost: $99.99.

It is commendable that the developer follows these discussions and provides input. It is certainly something to be encouraged. For his benefit, I provide the following bona fide advice.

A simple, clear tutorial is a good, if not essential, feature.

But an even better feature is an intuitive use which doesn't require reading (and remembering) instructions or following tutorials.

I dare go even further and say from experience that, for the average user who is spoiled by well planned interfaces, the moment reading instructions becomes necessary, the program can be considered a half-failure.

I have to totally agree with tomcat's comment, on the representative of this software, following up on most of the comments left by computer users here @ GAOTD! That is a rare occurrence for software representatives to do this, without being required to do so! It's also a commendable quality that most representatives of software lack, when offering their software here for free. I just wish that more software representatives would do this follow up, just like this software rep. did today! That way, it shows that they are not just interested in their software, but that they back their software claims as well!

Regarding the "even better feature is an intuitive use"... I agree that software should be developed without the need for extensive documentation. But the page linked by the developer is an introduction to the software for marketing purposes. This online document seems like an explanation of the software before a customer purchases. The software does have a programmed wizard that appears to walk you through the options and processes.

To krypteller: Please send me screenshot after disk scan was completed.

This is good software it can even be used just as recovery tool, the comment here above carry some prejudices and Mr. Karl today You driven people wrongly 'it is no necessary needed to damage You disk to test this useful tool' simply this day Your comment was not necessary.
Tested on windows xpsp3 it worked very smoothly; the optional fast scan was very fast for a 8 GB disk, the scan results [image] can be recovered by different ways [image]
The found files is shown with their original name all the thing is to pick them in thus auto generated folders, certainly there is files that can't be recovered.

Karl's comments are always useful. He did not "driven people wrongly"; he simply explained why he didn't complete his usual, very useful evaluation.

Thank You - hagd