Data Recovery Software

Data Restore Software

RECOVERY SOFTWARE

The most common cases when partition recovery is need are an accidental deletion and the problems due to repartitioning. The latter usually follow the mistakes made either by the user or by the repartition utility itself. So the best ways to avoid partition recovery are your carefulness and a decent repartition program. The most popular data recovery utilities can recover from partitions. So now let’s take a look at those which possesses the feature above. The reviewed utilities are Recover My files, Handy Recovery, GetDataBack.

Data Recovery Features Recover My Files Handy Recovery GetDataBack
Recover compressed files + + +
Recover encrypted files + + +
eMail Recovery + - -
Network Recovery - + +
Create Image files - + +
Recover from Recover My Files Handy Recovery GetDataBack
Recycle Bin + + +
Damaged Files + + +
Virus/Power Failure + + +
Format/Fdisk + + +
Partition Changed/Deleted + + +
Disk with bad sectors + + +
Restore from Unbootable HDD + + +
Drives Supported Recover My Files Handy Recovery GetDataBack
IDE + + +
SCSI + + +
SATA + - +
RAID - - +
External drives + - +
Removable Media + - +
Supported Operating Systems Recover My Files Handy Recovery GetDataBack
Vista + + +
XP + + +
2000 + + +
98 + + +
ME + + +
NT + + +
Price $ 49.99 49.99 79.00

So as it can be seen from the tables above all these programs are fully-featured and can be used almost in every issue concerning data recovery. All the programs above support the most common file systems like FAT16/32 and NTFS. As for programs usability all of them are rather easy in use, so they are very convenient even for non-experienced users. Recover My Files and Handy Recovery have the same price however for most home users a wider scope of hardware support is more important than abilities to recover files through the network and creating image files. So let’s put RMF higher than HR in our improvised rating. As for GetDataBack it has only one serious disadvantage-its price. However both feature scope and supported drives range are sufficient therefore GetDataBack wins silver.

The podium:

1. Recover My Files

2. GetDataBack

3. Handy Recovery