Power Data Recovery For Pc

[Thora Buckner]

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Files loss caused by logical errors and physical damage is annoying for the hard disk may not respond or shows access denied. However, the powerful algorithms of the best free Power Data Recovery will get the lost files back even from lost partitions.

The latest version of MiniTool Power Data Recovery adds Desktop Recovery, Recycle Bin recovery, and Select Folder modules. You can choose to only scan the Desktop, Recycle Bin or a specific folder to get deleted/lost files back, which saves you much time and efforts.

With the quick scan it can recover files from empty recycle bin or lost partitions that have been treated with a quick format, accidentally deleted; also, it retrieves shift-deleted files (documents, photos) and recover deleted partitions. The wizard-like interface makes working with the application an effortless job.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery tools are easy to use. Whether you are a professional user or a free user, you can easily use this great file recovery software to recover files from different data loss cases, and it is very simple.

This very easy to use file recovery software for windows is an excellent and innovative tool to recover deleted data. The interface is adequate for all levels of computer users and the free recovery process is quite straightforward.

I recently used a data recovery software, Minitool Power Data Recovery, to recover my data from a raw partition drive, drive E. Along with my original files, an additional folder is obtained called "Raw Files" which has in itself sub folders named Adobe PDF file, MKV Video, PNG image, etc. I cannot access any PDF or image files in these folders. Some images which are accessible does not seem to belong to my original data and are repeated. Are there things part of my original data which has corrupted?

They are the results of carving. The tool you used most likely performs both directory tree reconstruction and carving as an additional attempt to recover most data. Quoting from this answer of mine:

Files that cannot be recovered by the second approach might be recovered by carving, thus the tool performs an additional carving step. Of course the signature matching might (and usually will) fail if the files are fragmented, so you cannot access them because their contents are not retrieved correctly.

Data recovery software rarely discriminates between cached images from your browser and stuff you intended to keep. It can also dredge up old data that has only been deleted, such as when someone sells a computer used and only reformats the drive instead of doing something like running Derek's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) on it. This can be especially disturbing if it's a company which uses refurbished components to build new computers (Compaq right before HP bought them, late model Gateway, eMachine, 90s model Packard-Bell, and a few other no-names), as you can dredge up someone else's data if they got sloppy on the refurb.

As you may or may not know, my review request queue is getting longer by the day. Most of the time, it takes memonths, and sometimes even years to finally accommodate some of the stuff you ask, which could create animpression that you are being ignored. Far from it. Power Data Recovery by MiniTool is one such example.

I was asked by the dev team to take their software for a lengthy spin. Elevenish months later, I had the chanceto install the program and start fiddling about. For those of you wondering, Power Data Recovery (PDR) version7.0 is a tool designed to help Windows users, well, recoverlost files and folders from damaged partitions, SD cards, find lost files, and such. Any good? Let's find out.

Apart from typos here and there on the official website and various menus, the setup is quite simple and fast.One of the big warnings the program pops up is to make sure you do not install the program to a drive where youmight expect to search for lost data, as this could lead to a permanent data loss. Fair enough.

The main program menu comes with a modernistic interface, slightly too smartphony for my taste, but rather easyto understand and navigate, although some of the options can be slightly confusing. The free version will onlylet you recover up to 1GB of data, so it's not really useful. You will need to upgrade if you want to use thistool seriously. The transparent border is also a little annoying, as it makes for less than dainty screenshots.

You have several options, with little to no configurations or settings, which can confuse power users, asimplied in the software name. Undelete Recovery will simply try to recover files you have deleted, any whichway.

The three options: Digital Media Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery and Damaged Partition Recovery are almostidentical, with very small differences. The first will attempt to find lost data on SD cards and USB drives,i.e. mostly Flash storage. The second option will work on recovering stuff from partitions overwritten by newinstallations and such. The last option can be used against devices that have had their partition data messedup or damaged, and you are unable to see the filesystem structure.

The distinctions are subtle, and you do not a little bit of technical expertise to understand what gives. Infact, the use of some of the technical jargon can be a little difficult for less skilled users, and I wouldadvise against running the tool blindly, without knowing what it can do. However, that may exactly be thetemptation, because of the very happy and inviting interface. CD/DVD recovery is as the name implies.

Let's put out mouths where our bytes are. Time to see if we can recover anything. I decided to randomly deleteseveral files on the C: drive, using both the Del + Recycle Bin method and the more rigorous Shift + Deloption. Then, I also took an external hard disk and went ballistic on it.

Originally, it had a 1TB FAT32 partition with roughly 100 CD-size media files on it, mostly backups of variousvideo clips and such. I had the partition table deleted, a new one created in its place and formatted withNTFS. Overall, a somewhat intrusive operation.

I tried the files thingie first. There are two scans. First, a discovery of all the visible drives, so you needto select the device from which you want to recover - Windows filesystems only. Then, the actual scan of thecontent, a rather fast operation.

The results were rather disappointing. On the fully formatted USB hard drive, no files were found. The toolcould not see the underlying FAT32 data. On the C: drive, it found a lot of stuff, but none of the randomlydeleted files, regardless of the method I used. There was a whole bunch of other stuff to recover, but itwasn't really useful or interesting for me.

This type of operation worked much, much better. While only FAT, NTFS and HFS+ are officially supported, thetool did see all the partitions. You will need to detect the right partition before you start the full scan.Our test bunny was the external disk.

Depending on the size of the device, it could take many hours. Indeed, I gave up after only about 5-10 minutes,with less than 1% of the data structure analyzed. Don't expect anything fast. It's a messy sector by sectoroperation. Probably worth it if you are recovering valuable personal information. In my test, I stopped withabout 40 files detected on the external disk. Good.

If you check the scan log, even after an aborted partial scan, you will still get some results. I waspleasantly surprised to find a bunch of video clips showing up in the log, roughly matching the original sizeof the objects that I had saved on the FAT32 partition.

After selecting the desired objects, you can then save them to the disk. In a way, this is a copy operationfrom the damaged partition structure into a target directory somewhere. It does not guarantee your data will bevalid or sane, especially if there's physical damage or some of the information has been overwritten, but it'sworth a try. Plus, the file names will be completely off, so you will need to restore those too, if you canactually identify the objects. A small price to pay for a successful recovery.

You can also try to preview the files, but this won't work if the objects are bigger than 20MB, making thefunctionality rather useless for any kind of media except maybe songs. But it should be useful for images,documents and the like. Within reason. Plus typos.

The recovery worked, and I was able to play the selected file. Nice. It was a 2h 5min movie, and it seems to beintact. Alas, the video playback stopped at 1 h 44 min, so I guess some of the video data is damaged beyondrepair. To be expected when you are trying to salvage things that have been destroyed. This is why having theright backup strategy in place is quite important.

I then tried the lost partition recovery. Same results. No magic there. What is gone cannot be ungone.Moreover, you do get some advanced settings after all, but they only define what filesystems and types of datato look for. Nothing fancy. Then again, if HFS+ is supported, then Linux filesystems should be on the list,too.

Power Data Recovery 7.0 is a decent tool. It is simple, elegant, and most importantly, safe andnon-destructive. It has an interface that allows most users to go through the motions of recovery, but theterminology can be confusing, and there are some typos, quite a few actually, in the menus. That's fine, but itcan be tricky. Plus, it does not look as professional as it could.

As far as recovery goes, I liked the partition operations. I found the file recovery to be lacking. Either way,do not expect miracles. You can't really save bytes that have been irreparably overwritten with other data.That does not happen. Overall, for what it's worth, the program offers a reasonable compromise betweentechnology and expectations for a broad selection of users. The personal license price of USD69.00 is a littlesteep, but if it can save some bacon, I guess the numbers won't be a showstopper.

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