I personally used this software recently after downloading it from here.
I had two old hard disk, samsung 20 gb and Seagate 160 gb.
I tried to recover data from both the hard disk and it did job flawlessly.
Impressed with this software and I highly recommend this one.

Easy user interface and wizard based software. It restores deleted data and data from corrupted or out-of-order Hard disk. Speed is also very good.

The other thing that I noticed is people give Thumbs down without even using products. Thanks to GAOTD and MiniTool for providing this commercial software for free. The files I recovered from this software is priceless. Definitely a keeper. Thank you. :)

I found testing and partition tools more convenient to use through MiniTool than directly from the operating system.

For data recovery, I found an unexpected result with some failing Windows NTFS drives that were not recognized by MiniTool when connected to computers running WIN XP, Vista, and WIN 7. These particular drives were recognized by computers running WIN 2000 and MacBook computers running OS X. I was able to recover files with the operating system file managers on these computers.

https://www.data-medics.com/data-recovery-blog/minitool-power-data-recovery-review/

I'm totally bumming. I discovered yesterday that I had a bad partition in one of my network disks... spent the last 20 hours trying to find appropriate software to recover the files and or the partition... and or scan the drive with one of the "free" apps that turned out not to be free after it found my files.

I was desperately hoping this site might be a savior in my time of need... and had HIGH HOPES! I downloaded, installed, registered, and ran the current offering of minitool-power-data-recovery-6-8 on my Windows 7 machine (64bit)...and it just crashes every time I try to get it to do something.

I went to their site to see if there were any specs on compatibility... and there are some blurbs on how this tool is the best for Windows 7. I'm going to reboot and see if that might somehow enable this tool to work. Fingers crossed!

Have the situation on Asus Eee PC netbook, Win 7.1 1 TB hd. Where the damaged partition is apparently C:\Windows. Can get into safe mode, and command prompt but will not recognize D: - where pictures, documents and music files are located, gives "cyclical data error" which basically means have a bad disk. Windows or chkdsk will not recover it. Have been trying the assortment of recovery programs offered here so thanks for another opportunity.

Has anyone tried to recover data(mainly audio and/or video) on a scratched/damaged CD or DVD as the software claims? I have yet to find a decent program that does this.

@freecat, Try GParted. You should be able to find it in your Linux programs.

http://www.junauza.com/2012/04/best-disk-partition-managers-for-linux.html

This is one of the better fix tools on the market. Now, I need one that works for a Linux disk. I have tried Testdisk but it hard to understand and use --- and it did not fix Linux drives. Does anyone know of a tool (intuitive or with a "wizard") that will work on Linux disks?

Thanks Mike & ThomasRoberts :) Appreciate this & yes I do have realtek for sound on this TOSHIBA laptop, which worked purrrfectly before this stupid AVG antivirus software glitch.
Also figure the announced official release date for Windows 10 per following:
From PC World beginning July 29

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873214/windows-10-will-be-a-free...

Hi-

Do you have a discount coupon for the rest of the tools?

I have very good experiences with the software....however since is not something I use everyday is hard to pay the full price.

Ed

Hi - Dual-boot here! - Installed on both of my physical partitions - Win8.1.3 & Win10 Build 10130 - it seems very few problems. I ran a couple of tests on some defective DVD's & still waiting on results - encrypted files. Thanks GOTD & Minitool for today's offering & looking forward to tomorrow. HAGD

It is very good to see it as I was searching to download it is very useful to me thanks

Guys, thanx in advance for any suggestions as I find you'll intelligent & knowledgeable. I have a Windows8.1 laptop and recently lost my sound as the speaker icon in bottom right corner shows a red x next to it. This was caused due to AVG antivirus system which had quarantined certain system .dll files and during the `Uninstall Program' process deleted them from it's quarantine vault. My questions are as follows:-
1) Will this software work to restore these files and where do I install this program? I just got one C: drive and if I install any recovery programs on it, I believe there is a possibility of it overwriting and corrupting my data.
2) Any suggestions of using any good, free Recovery software which can be portable and run off a USB stick?
3) On googling around and reading forums I have gathered that several other users are caught in my predicament with AVG flagging these valid files - AudioEndpointBuilder and AudioSrv and on trying to switch sound back on from windows, it keeps giving a "End point is a duplicate" Error.
4) Considering switching over to Windows 10 free upgrade, but am hesitant as this is still in BETA stage. Anybody got opinions about this strategy?
All comments in forum will be appreciated or email me oldog at rediffmail dot com.

Minitools Power Data Recovery was the only recovery program who detected my wrong partitions after I have shred them with an old version of TestDisk.

Problems began, when I did some partition resizings with Minitools Partition Wizard though. :-)

My advice: Don't fiddle with partitions unless you did a full data backup with a live CD like Knoppix first.

Having been a user of this software for a few years, I can say it is a worthwhile tool to have. It does what it says, and better than many other programs. Definitely when it's free I can recommend it to everyone to have. I regularly use it alongside RecoverMyFiles and PhotoRec.

Linux based (free and bootable):
Take nearly any Linux Live-CD/DVD (e.g. Knoppix) and choose Testdisk. If insecure look for some HowTo before usage.


Windows based (free and bootable) is
Hiren's BootCD 15.2 from some Russian authors - All in one Bootable CD comes with sort of WindowsXP PE and lots of helpful software:
www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

It comes with (cited from above site)
"DataRescue DD 1.0
DrDD is a disk imager intended for data recovery and backup of partially corrupted storage devices, the main advantages are Range Selection and Copy Backward Direction.
DiskDigger 0.8.3.176
Undelete and recover lost photos, videos, music, documents and other formats from your hard drive, memory cards and USB flash drives.
DiskGenius 3.2
Restore deleted partition, Rebuild MBR, Rebuild partition table, Recover files, Restore formatted partition, Backup files by partition, Disk clone, Backup partition table, Create/Delete/Format Partitions etc."
and much more.

Minitool Power Data Recovery have also offered the 'boot disk' version on several occassion. Though this one doesn't include that option.
The program has a lot of potential with intuitive interface designed to recover any lost files or damaged partitions on a hard disks. Like other Recovery programs it can perform both quick and deep scans. Also scans the hard drive for lost partitions and for accidentally deleted files/folders there is “Undelete Files Recovery” option which offers a set of filters for the ease of operation.

Now take a look at the availability of freeware data recovery and file undelete programs -


(1) Undelete 360 ( My Favourite )

(2) Recuva -Portable - A popular Program from well known developer Piriform.

(3) WinUtilities Free Undelete - It has the explorer based GUI. A handy tool , in certain cases I find it more powerful than Undelete 360 and Recuva. Moreover It can help you to retrieve files inside locked folder in case you lost the password.

(4) Puran File Recovery - Very effective program , can recover files from formatted disk or even from Pen Drives, Memory Cards, Mobile Phones, CDs, DVDs etc. ( tested )

(5) iCare Data Recovery
(6)PC INSPECTOR File Recovery


(7) PhotoRec
another superb program for recovering files from formatted disks.

(8)7-Data Recovery

(9) Puran Data Recovery - http://www.puransoftware.com/Data-Recovery.html


And for recovering files from scratched CD's or defective hard disks there is Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier ( http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29 )


All these freeware data recovery tools are available but they do not offer any bootable image creation option so that we can use them without booting into Windows . Here comes the necessity of "AOMEI PE Builder" which provides the "add custom tools" feature, you can use it to add the portable tools you want.
(http://www.aomeitech.com/pebuilder/addtools.html)
Not necessarily every portable program will work in Windows Pre Environment made by Aomei PE Builder. The 'AOMEI PE Builder' already comes with some extra tools such as 'Sumatra PDF' , 'Recuva' etc in addition to 'AOMEI BACKUPPER' and 'AOMEI PARTITION ASSITANT' and some other system and networking tools. Okay, you can add some more 'File Recovery' programs to be packed with winpe image. I have observed that a genuine portable tool 'Undelete360 Portable' didn't run in PE. But Puran Utilities (having no portable version) works in PE mode though some tools of it didn't start. You need to add the whole installation folder of 'PURAN UTILITIES' which comprises many utility tools , 'PURAN File Recovery' and 'PURAN Data Recovery' are two of them. Remember both are Very effective program , they can recover files from formatted disk or even from Pen Drives, Memory Cards, Mobile Phones, CDs, DVDs etc. ( tested ). Those two tools work without any problems in PE Mode.

'PhotoRec' (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) is another data recovery software which you can add to AOMEI PE Image and run within PE mode.

Installed but unable to run as the message "not a valid 32-bit program" appeared, this on XP S3 32-bit OS.

Was quite looking forward to trying this software as their partition program was such a pleasing piece of work.

Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1.3 Pro 64 bit system. A clean install.

I just installed to see, whether there is something new. We had the same version Power Data Recovery 6.8 on August 12, 2014. Here are the old reviews:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/power-data-recovery-6-8/

The installed gives the useful hint, never to install into a partition, where you want to search for lost files. The boot disk you have to buy separately.

A company with a Canadian address, tel&fax:
"MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a powerful data recovery software developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. Since the first release of version 1.0 we have had many happy customers around the world. It is one of the fastest and most effective programs of the data recovery software."

It is the same program, the EXE and the corresponding files are from July 2014.
http://i.imgur.com/8SC1NW0.png

No new test for this program. It is one of the better recovery tools. If you stay long enough with GOTD, you'll have a nice collection of converters and unerasers. Promised!

http://i.imgur.com/DnlFWQF.png

Read my old comment...

Uninstalled via reboot. I'll keep the previous installation, which I never used up to now. It makes no sense, just to overwrite.

One of many similar programs;good enough if you're too lazy to do regular backups.