Timing is everything. I just lost all my family photos when (2) different hard drives physically crashed at once. In a desperate attempt to salvage anything from old drives, I downloaded and installed on an XP Desktop, Windows 7 Laptop, a Surface Pro 3 windows 10, and (2) Windows 10 Desktops and began digging. I am also using EASEUS data recovery, so I'm able to compare. Today's giveaway is doing a rather good job. Seems speedy enough on each of these different platforms. There are a couple annoyances. I wish there were a way to select/deselect files to restore by using the space bar, or I wish I could select a file, hold the shift key, and click another, and select/deselect groups of files at once. Seems like you have to click click click each file. GAH. Secondly, I think I found a bug. One of my machines, if the program is already running and I insert a USB drive, the screens go black and the computer locks entirely. It's only doing it to one of the boxes, so there obviously is a conflict. Other than that, I'm really enjoying todays giveaway. It is recovering well, and the deep scans are taking a very long time, but they are doing a good job too.

I cannot believe that the program does not let me specify the directory or drive _before scanning. Am I missing something? The scan takes a looong time.

I am not getting your Facebook share and download when I go to download the files can you please help.

"Powerful hard drive data recovery software to recover deleted, formatted or lost data from hard disk drive, memory card, USB flash drive, digital camera or other storage device."

After a quickformat there is a little bit of hope:
The quickformat:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ai88w48a7wtj8kn/QuickFormat.png
The scan let see some good names, but a little bit later just DIR##:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pxjl4n3v91xie3i/ScannenNaQuickFormat.png
After a full format:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oeaxfycw11ju6mg/Format.png
the program finds nothing:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8fscaw0g0x8ywbp/ScannenNaFormat.png
Ootje

To recover an overwritten file on Windows PC, open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder where the file was located in. Right click anywhere inside this folder and select Properties from the context menu. After that, select the Previous Versions tab and look for an earlier version of the overwritten file.

Works ...

Pro's:

1.It's quick - easy to use
2. Finds a number of files
3. Tells you what it's doing
4. Allows you to pick what to recover
5. Accurately recovered those files
6. Offered the option of a deep scan which I assume will take longer - I didn't try this.


Cons:

1. When you click the icon then nothing happens for a few seconds before the programme starts - there needs to be a "loading" screen or something to tell you something is happening.
2. When selecting the directory there's an orange button that might have text on it - but none displays by me - but if you click it - things happen
3. Things are hidden in directory structures that make them very hard to find without spending a lot of time randomly clicking every directory structure to find where the files are you were looking for. There was a lot of empty directories and empty files here and I couldn't work out why they were being displayed - they had no recovered files in them, nor were there ever the type of file I was looking for in them either.
4. In order to recover something I had to select the directory and it would recover the entire directory structure in order to recover the single file - for example I now have a directory structure that says:
=Recovered data at date & time
= C:
== other lost files
=== random numbers
==== 4 empty directories (named as they were before they were deleted)
==== original_name.ogg file (which is what I was attempting to recover - and it plays, fully and correctly recovered.)

Works also for mini sd card even new formatted, all my old photos and videos were recovered ! Great software ! Thanks !

quick to download and install, easy to activate with activation key included in read-me file, tried it on a flash drive that I had just reformatted, found all files and even recovered them with the same file name, so far, positive experience