TK, oops I got the domain IP number order wrong for the hosts entry!

It's supposed to be:

127.0.0.1 sa.aunload.com

TK, And another bug... Recover for Recycle Bin which is supposed to check the recycle bin database for specific volumes and offer to recover files deleted from the recycle bin on that volume but when started it scans the filesystem for ALL the files on that filesystem not showing what's been moved to recycle bin on that volume but just providing an explorer-like tree panel and files panel with all the files and folders currently on the drive listed! What is the point in that?

same thing happens when trying to recover deleted data it scans the filesystem and displays the files and folders in the entire selected filesystem NOT any deleted ones! What is the point in that? The ONLY utility I can see in it is to expose ALL the files belonging to other users and the system that you'd normally not have access to so you can copy them to a different location you can access without adding your user name to the access control lists and revealing you've been snooping where you probably shouldn't be. Should be version 0.4alpha and not pretend to be a stable release version as it is not even a conventional deleted file recovery program yet, let alone a good, usable one yet!
Like others have found this build is incpable of retaining its licensed state after the process has been ended and restarted again. I wish GAOTD would sanity check giveaways that they do the basics of what is needed to be a giveaway like retain licensed state, seek and display deleted files of the classes claimed in the user interface and do not enable telemetary unless the end user is confident enough to choose advanced installation settings when user experience telemetary option should be defaulting to OFF if it is hidden away in the advanced installation settings and the installation path should always be offered in the standard installation configuration and again not be hidden away in custom or advanced settings all of which lead end user to default to having spyware telemetary enabled by default and writing to the system volume by default which is normally where people are trying to recover deleted data from! I'd personally prefer GAOTD to admit defeat and not have a giveaway than to subject all giveaway visitors regardless of experience and expectation to sneaky telemetary enabled pre-release software that operates with adminstrator rights so if the rogue developer wants to they can wreck a system and extract any data they like and transmit it home since their software by default gives itself unrestricted access to any files that are owned by any identity on the target computer!
This is potential ransomware where secrets can be harvested and exposed... rather than the type of ransomware that locks your data files. I don't expect GAOTD admins or censor will permit this to go public as what they have done here in this giveaway is attrocious in my professional opinion as a an IT and security engineer.

Hi Bukunolami,
The registration and verification need the internet connection. Would you please check if it's a problem with the internet, please?
If you still have problems, please contact us via email or visit https://www.recoverxdata.com.
Thank you. :-)
Betty
RecoverXData Team

Betty, your program is not ready for release as it does not retain its activation from one runtime to the next, requiring it to be re-activated every time it is run.... it also does not find volumes on drive letter B: and does not restrict the files and folders lists to the scope preselected inthe GUI i.e. just recycle binned deleted files on given partition drive letters or just deleted but recoverable files on partitions... it's only apparent utility is to permit access to files and folders that are normally inaccessable due to ACL prohibitions. It is currently a script kiddies data stealing utility and NOT a deleted data recovery utility as it does not show just deleted data!
Your program is not a legitimate version 1 release but sould be a sub version 0.9 alpha release.
You should also default to NO analytics telemetrics and make the spyware feature opt-in not concealed opt-out!
TK

Stephen Brown, read some of the pages returned from:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en-GB&source=hp&q=WIndows+10+TRIM+settings&btnG=Google+Search

I'm being a bit lazy too... no point retyping instructions and information that others have already explained ad-infinitum.

Bil , Bil, Save And Keep The Code Key In The readme.txt File. Keep Using It, It Will Then Be Registered Again. I Have The Same Issue. I Will Contact Support As I Suggest You Do As Well. You Can Reach Them At:
support@recoverxdata.com
Keep The App Though And Expect A Reply Within 24 Hours. Keep Using That Code Key!

David Wellman, each time you re-register you use one of the allocated 5000 registered PC's allowed... it won't take long for those to be consumed and further re-registrations being refused.

David Wellman, Not for me: I re-registered several times and same problem happens!

Thomas, Not the case for me! It works well. Only problem: goes back to trial version as soon as you lose it and reopen it :-(((((((((((((

More ...
Same instant de-registration desactivation in Win10 on same desktop PC and also on my Win 8.1 Portable PC !
Thanks for help !

Membership detail when just entering code:
Status: Activated
License code: FB ......BB3
Authorized PCs: 3289/5000
Expiration Date: 2022-04-16

All lost after software restart !

Robert Bedo, You shouldn't... but it is too late now! You can choose where to install, you can copy the folder where it is installed to another disk or USB key and it still works etc.

I’mPrettyUseless, we are tomorrow... and this happened again (trial instead of registered); I entered the key and it registered again... What will be the situation tomorrow: no idea! Any answer from the Company editing the program would be nice...

As for your first question: this is normal; creating a folder and then writing in it your recovered file, on the disk where you try to recover or just recovered a file means you risk to erase part of the recovered file! That is why this program (and all the others performing the same job) refuse to write on that disk; you need to save the recovered file on another disk (or a USB key) or - I believe - another partition at least (that partition being on the same disk, or not). Is this clear enough?

Hi I’mPrettyUseless,
This problem normally happens when you have only one hard drive. In order to protect data on the original hard drive, the software prevented the data to be saved there. Please insert an SD card, flash drive or external drive to the computer, and recover the data to a folder on those external devices.
And as regards to the registration issue, please download the latest version from our official website, and register with the giveaway license, it should have solved that problem.

Rich, imagine you have a filing cabinet full of coloured and labelled folders, neatly organising thousands of paper documents.

The paper documents themselves are your files, the drawers full of coloured, labelled hanging folders is your file system, and the filing cabinet is your drive.

You will appreciate that a document, being a collection of sheets of paper with text and pictures on them, are inherantly (indeed physically) different from the folders they are stored in.

Restoring documents is possible because deletion does not actually delete the documents themselves - what it does is destroy the folders, leaving the pages of the documents lying in the bottom of the drawers.

Recovering the document Sara is then a matter of sorting through the unsorted pages trying to make them fit together, like a puzzle. Reconstructing the folders can be harder, as in many cases they are the main thing that has been damaged and in some instances could be considered a pile of ash :(

"Recovering the document Sara" should be "Recovering the document data", but autocorrupt likes to make these little changes for me :(

Rich, Some data recovery programs understand directory structures and when found can tie up deleted files to partial folder structures and make recovery more useful. Then there are others that only do deep scans and just rebuild files but have no concept of original file names or folder locations and just give you long lists of numberd file names of different recognised types. Ideally one should have backed up critical or non-replacable files in multiple locations, including offline backup locations that the Operating system cannot access without user interaction to prevent advanced ransomware from finding the backups and encrypting/stealing them. SOMETIMES windows itself corrupts a filesystem so chkdsk /F wrecks and removes hundreds of GB of files trying to make the filesystem consistent or so badly written MSI installers that they can become practically malicious files... can wrongly enumerate the entire windows system drives filesystem and use trusted installer worker process to litterally go through every folder and delete all the files it finds and keep going until either you shut down the MSI installers tree of processes or shut down windows or it destroys windows. On an SSD based system with TRIM support enabled nothing will be recoverable and a clean re-install or an install from a the most recent system backup image will be required.

It is a last act of desperation where no functional backup solution is available and a non TRIM'ed drive is in in use would anyone be desperate enough to try and crawl through TBs of out of context recovered anonymous files in the hopes of recovery of years of lost data to a new drive...
And you certainly would not want to be relying upon an expiring licenced product that is non-portable or not WinPE media bootable in such desperate circumstances.

BTW I am struggling so see any errors of your ways to show you... except not mentioning a solid dependable critical file backup strategy of course ;-)

SD and MicroSD card and USB thumb drive corruption is in my experience the most common cause for the need to recover lost data... but in most cases those failures are due to Chinese FAKE storage devices that have hacked firmware to report far more FLASH or electromechanical storage than really exists and people dive for these recovery tools when they have lost pictures taken due to the media lying about writing the data to FLASH memory that does not exist. Of course in those circumstances the data is gone as no copy was made by the camera to reall memory storage.

Failed FLASH memory where LBA sector 0 becomes corrupt and unwritable can usually make use of these recovery tools to get data back essential but as usual lack of context can make it a chore but often the results can be worthwhile if they are some valuable photos or videos of a non-repeatable event. Usually that won't be a TB of files though. I've done this type of recovery for family members several times in the past with adequate results.

Spike, worked fine here. I recovered files to a mapped network drive without problems.

Spike, There Is A Way For One To Install On A Flash Drive Or SD Chip... I Did It Spike. In The Process Of Initial Installation Of This App, The Default Installation Path Is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Auntec
BEFORE COMPLETING INSTALLATION AND WHILE INSTALLING, Do The Following:
Navigate To:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Auntec
Copy The Folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Auntec
And Paste The Folder Into A Flash Drive Or SD Chip, Through Windows Explorer, BEFORE Completing The Installation
Once Done, "Browse" The The Auntec Folder On Your Flash Drive Or SD Chip, And Select It As The Installation Directory. Once Installed There, And After Installation, Register With The Code Key In Your "readme.txt" File.
NOTE! SAVE THAT CODE KEY! You May Need It!
Good Luck.
P.S. I've Been Installing Apps From Giveaway For Over A Dozen Years.

JoeJ, what device claims SD card data recovery is impossible after a format? Unless the SD card is completely overwritten by a format, file remenants will always remain. No SD card format utility wastes FLASH memory erase/write cycles in a simple filesystem format and as far as I have read/experienced SD cards do not support Secure Erase command or TRIM/SCSI de-allocate commands...

Give it a go with any and all recovery software you have, don't limit it to just this offering. All a quick format does is reset the allocation structures and root directory entry on any medium... A full format does the same but also reads the entire data area to ensure there are no unreadable sectors and if any are found their clusters are marked as BAD in the filesystems allocation structures so they are not used for newly created/coppied files. No modern format of windows based filesystems overwrites the data areas, just the root folder and allocation structures.

Nice catch about the defaulting to usage reporting unless choosing custom installation, people do need to know when these underhand tactics are employed by developers. I do not plan on installing an expiring data recovery giveaway as the need to use them is so rare the chances are it will have expired and be useless when eventually needed. Much better to stick to either freeware data recovery or non-expiring commeercial programs.

TK, thanks for your reply. It's a Panasonic HC-V 160. The card is a micro SD in an SD adapter to be precise (not that it should matter, afaik). I know that no format should erase everything - in case of this cam it takes around 5 sec maybe, definitely not enough to overwrite a complete 16GB card.

I tried everything offered or mentioned here since late summer 2018 (when the accidental format happened - of course the card has not been used since then), except maybe for 1 or 2 options due to lack of time. But I hope to catch up now, which why is installed this expiring giveaway as well.

JoeJ, what I would do if I were you is to load the physical microSD cards drive in HxD hex editor run as an Administrator using the "Tools" menu "Open disk" and browse through the sectors... I'd also suggest saving a copy of the drives sectors as a raw image file on your computers hard drive as a backup of the entire card. It's only 16GBytes so should be FAT-32 filesystem so should not be overly complicated in layout.

The purpose in browsing through the sectors in HxD.exe is to locate any traces of previous file headers or folder entries. There are so many options for recovery programs it is difficult to recommend any one in particular until you can determine that there is actually any user data on the card. Which ever one you choose a deep scan or recover data from a formatted drive would be the options to try.

Most SD/MicroSD cards in digital cameras have a root folder entry called DCIM that will be overwritten with the formatted new root folder. The actual DCIM folder itself should still exist and should be locatable using a search for any of the folder names normally found in the DCIM folder.

Not sure of the video formats the HC-V160 produces, I presume stills taken will be JPG files in which case searching for .JPG file extension should find previously saved stills file names if there were any and if there were searching for ASCII text string "JFIF" should locate the start point of any remaining JPG file data that if the card was not heavily used should be in a single contiguous block of sectors that can be selected in the interface and coppied into a NEW file in HxD.exe which could then be saved off as a new JPG file to local storage presumably you'd have an idea of how large a standard JPG still phot would be. As to the videos that could be on there you could use a different SD card to experiment on to determine the video container file format used by the camcorder and spot it's unique header signature and search for them in the image or microSD card and select between one header and the next header and copy it to the clipboard and paste it into a new file in HxD.exe like done with the JPG and save as a name compatible with that video file type...

Using this method on previously unfragmented data it is possible to find and recover pre-existing data that some recovery programs don't seem to find even though they should... I apologise in advance if I have made any logical errors in the procedures or syntax errors in my writing, I'm not proof reading this but the basic principles should be relatively clear. Give it a go, you've very little to lose if you create a raw disk image file and work on that instead of the slower microSD card.
You can find tech details for FAT-32 file structures to aid in your real inteligent data recovery as opposed to purely algorithmic recovery programs.

I am assuming you do believe you had video and or photos of value on the card prior to the accidental formating?
Good hunting!

mike, Try Recuva.....works well for me on SATA, SSD, and M2 drives.

mike, what are you talking about? data recovery on SSD drives in modern windows and modern linux is dificult only when TRIM or SCSI Dellocate is enabled because that practically wipes from logical block access previously written data because when a file or folder or partition is deleted the FLASH memory cells are deallocated from LBA address to enable erase and re-use/garbage collection of the no longer needed LBA addresses contents. 3D NAND is a branded NAND FLASH memory cell construction technology and not something that has ANY relevence to deleted data recovery.

It is quite simple to recover data from a software corrupted SSD based filesystem as usually the lost filesystem has not been TRIMed or cleanly deallocated so the lost data mostly still remains!

IF you want to be able to recover data from SSD drives as easily as electro-magnetic or USB FLASH, SD, MMC etc then simply disable TRIM support in windows 7 and above and linux. Only re-enable it if the drive starts to slow significantly and then do a TRIM of all free space (which will de-allocate previously used but deleted LBA addresses and give them back to the wear leveling algorithims to use) which should restore some of the original writing speed of the SSD. But of course once the free space is TRIMed data recovery utilities will no longer find any of the old deleted file left overs.

Dizzak, according to what I have read in the documentation this is a one year Pro version. So it's Pro, it's free, but only for one year.

As far as changing the install directory: If you want to reasonably recover files using **any** such tool, you must as a general principle do that on another PC or, to be precise, the drive to be recovered on must be attached as a secondary drive. Hence, not being able to change the install drive and directory is usually no big issue.

Dizzak, when you have the window "Install now", you cann see at the bottom right "ustom installation" which allows you to choose here you want to install the program; choose a USB key and so, you will be able to recover data from C:, D: or any USB drive etc. except the one where you installed the program. You may copy from the USB key to C: and recover data from D: or vice-versa etc. You may recover from an SSD or HDD disk (at least without using deep recovery. I did not try deep recovery which takes usually more time...).

Dizzak, Thanks for the info. Any program, especially a data recovery program, that does not allow user controlled installation destination is a no-brainer DON'T BOTHER! It is a sign of laziness, sloppiness and stupidity on the part of the programmers.Not a application that you should trust.

Art, ??? I just wrote it is possible to choose!

Harold Silvera, After all those messages about that program, I can say that I have RecoverXData from the programmaker itself. Nowhere was something to see that you had to buy the program or request a key! And, I helped me to partially recover the disappeared pictures.

vass, See Harold Silvera, 'micro SD card from the camera'.

vass, for what its worth i have never had much luck with accidental deleted files with any programs. IF someone has a good program recommendation for that i would like to know.

Christian, thanks for your answer.
Wasn't an accident. i deleted them on purpose.
it worth a try to see if i could recover one specific folder.
oh well, c'est la vie :)

Dolores Keaton, read my comment, you will see that i use DEEP SCAN with no results, maybe because of my SSD disk. if it was HDD i would have better luck.

vass,

If you have used the SSD at all since you deleted the photos, especially since it was a month ago, you will have no luck with any type of software to recover them.

This type of recovery software is meant for immediate recovery. The only way you can do any type of delayed recovery is if you immediately take the storage out of service until you are able to perform recovery on it.

FeMaster, thanks for answer. Now i know :)