Testdisk was a bit confusing but it did recover all the mp3s all the other data it was unable. (as someone who will likely never need to recover another usb for awhile $60aud is a waste of money) My experience so far Wondershare and EaseUs they both advertise scan and recovery but are misleading as they both tell you to purchase after you have scanned it just to recover the data. I've been trying to get data off my corrupted usb for the past day or so and still am just waiting for a scan to end it contains photos, videos, mp3, and documents roughly 6gb worth of stuff. Easeus used exact same methods to promote their products. At this point it seems they have surpassed Stellar where it comes to spamming forums and online communities. I specially consider CleverFiles (Disk Drill) and WonderShare (RecoverIt) borderline criminal with their subpar tools and modus operandi, their monthly subscription scams. Not only their products suck, they suck themselves.Įdit: I am almost at the point where I can not have this reasonable discussion. Even though their tools are f*cking clueless where it concerns RAID arrays. The DiskDrill and RecoverIt website have all kinds of pages discussing RAID and to recover data they recommend their own tools. The bad tools gave me files, sorted by file type with generic names.Ī good tool can work out the parameters of a RAID array and virtually reconstruct it, and then work out the file system. The good tools ended up in my good tools corner because even in those difficult circumstances they were able to reconstruct a folder tree and produce valid files. ![]() I have had real world disks on which lots of stuff went on, they were re-partitioned and reformatted several times, disk image were restored, partition resizers were used and so on. It's not hard to determine file system start or cluster size because that info is available.Ī good tool will analyse everything it finds though and for example, that although current state of a volume is FAT32 because the partition tables and boot sector tell it so, work out the file system is actually NTFS. For example, if I format a drive with the same file system, in general it's pretty straight forward to build this tree. The tools I identify as good are able to virtually reconstruct a tree in more complex scenarios. This in contrast with support offered by RecoverIt and Disk Drill for example, if you're looking for a definition of stupid, go ask them for help.Ī good tool is able to reconstruct a directory tree and produce valid files. If have seen examples of UFS getting updated same day because a lab tech ran into some problem. These tools are often updated based on real world cases. Many pros in this group recommend for example GetDataBack, or UFS or ReclaiMe based on results on real world scenarios. I didn't test GetDataBack but I know some like it based on results. Back then I didn't test DMDE but that tool keeps surprising me in a positive way, specially because it's so flexible. Good: ReclaiMe, R-Studio, File Scavenger, ZAR (and iRecover back then), UFS Explorer. Their honey pot articles on their website are often nonsense and their sole purpose is SEO and lurking people in. Many people use those because they make sure their tools are spammed everywhere. I mean I have tested DiskDrill against healthy drives and it still missed a significant portion of the data, and data it did find was RAW (so not in folder structure).Īnother big problem I have with all of the above is their marketing. ![]() Since then I every now and then test DiskDrill, RecoverIt if they come out with new versions.īiggest disappointments then, and still today are RecoverIt, DiskDrill and Stellar. I have looked at a lot of these, I took about every file recovery I could lay hands on and tested then against several real world drives I had. EaseUs / Wondershare / Stellar buy reviews too, but at least they kind-of work They run a very well tuned marketing and review bombing machine that keeps them in business and lets them carry on. Outright, legitimate scam with no redeeming qualities. What they encourage is reckless and harmful, and any company that does that should be buried.ĭr. ![]() On top of that, many of them (for sure EaseUs and Wondershare) advertise their products for cases in which they’re knowingly damaging people’s data and putting it at risk, such as in the case of a clicking or dropped drive. Disk Drill, EaseUs, Wondershare and Stellar all are on the bottom end of this result quality spectrum. This is due to differences in the way they interpret what they find, the nitty gritty of which I couldn’t describe. Given the exact same starting data, two different tools can recover a different result. ![]() In all other cases, it tends to perform worse than other tools. Disk Drill really does have a time and a place where it’s useful, and that’s when restoring damaged Time Machine volumes.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |