Recovering Lost Data

I am sure almost everyone has had a moment when you delete, lose or misplace a file and you get that pit in your stomach.  I have been there myself having seen whole drives get wiped out due to mechanical failure, user error, etc.  It is not a good feeling.  Most commercial data recovery companies charge a premium ($1000 and above).  They are good at what they do and I am not knocking those services at all, but there are some cost effective solutions out there.

Two software titles I have recently come across put the tools of professionals in your hands.

I just had some experience with EASEUS and the product Data Recovery Wizard Professional (http://www.easeus.com/).  A customer had a boot problem and no access to the hard drive.  To make matters worse, the drive itself was not showing its full size and contents in a working machine.  Not a good sign.  Enter Data Recovery Wizard which found three partitions on the drive and gave me a complete accounting of the drive - helping me locate the data I needed.  The trial version completed the scan and saved the results but would not recover the files or repair the drive.  The full version picked right up where the trial left off thanks to the saved results and completed the recovery.  All told 109 GB of the 112 GB of data on the SATA drive were recovered.

A colleague had some experience and recommended a different software solution, from Active @ Uneraser (http://www.uneraser.com/).  He had a problem with a FAT32 formatted USB (pen/key/stick/etc.) drive.  The data on the flash device was lost and not showing in Windows or DOS screens.  Enter Active which located and recovered the data.  No easy task on a simple flash device.

Both require some computer knowledge and experience but are valuable solutions.  As always you can contact ACE Computer Services (732-801-9310, support@acecomputernj.com) for assistance or visit our site at www.acecomputernj.com.

Thanks for reading!   

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