Installed and registered on a Win 8.1.2 Pro 64 bit system. The program warns you, not to install on a drive, where you want to recover corrupted files. That's good.

A Chinese company with address, phone, fax and a Google map:
SharpNight LLC started up in Hong Kong by two founders in 2012, as a small software company but we dream big

A resizable Windows8 style windows opens. You can select the language, look for updates, contact the homepage, facebook or twitter.

You select your recovery options and, yes, there is an Android recovery, too.

This was the one, I tested. Connect your Android device, select USB-Debugging in the Android option and start...

In a new, clear structured window you select the partition or drive on your phone/tablet. You can select, what you want to recover (media files, or documents or ..) and scan the device.

The full scan of an internal 2 GB Android storage took some 5 minutes, it build up a directory tree of that storage and you can search for your lost files and preview them before recovering.

The information are complete - compressed or encrypted files, raw files.

I am rarely impressed. This time a simple : Whow!

In my short test this program makes an excellent impression. You have deleted data recovery (those deleted from the recycle bin, but existing), partition recovery, total drive recovery and a (in my test) working Android recovery.

I'll keep it. Maybe some errors occur later, but I did not found them in this test. One of the really good recovery program. Congratulations to Hong-Kong!

Karl  –  10 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+150)

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Installed and registered without any difficulty, opened to a very clean and functional interface.
Tested with Deleted Recovery, extremely rapid scan of eight gig SD card, found a few deleted files.
Used Complete Recovery on the same card, scanned at a rate of one gig per minute and it found many files.
When switching between the preview modes the response was very fast, Thumbnails appearing almost instantaneously, selectable on a really pleasant and functional interface.
The last time this was offered I was not in the least bit impressed, a very different story this time.
A well designed piece of software that is easy-to-use and very rapidly in its operation, if you're looking for a recovery program then get this while you have the opportunity, well worth having.

XP-Man  –  10 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+65)

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Used this from the last GOTD, works great, better than a lot of the free ones :)

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@18: I respectfully disagree, as someone who has been a go-to guy for messed up storage media and "lost" files for longer than I care to think about, I have to say:

NEVER work from the media you are trying to recover / ALWAYS run recovery software from another drive and save files to another drive.

Why? Because recovery software needs room to store temp/part files and/or recovered files, and possibly info on media structure, and if you have files on the same drive you are working from that need to be recovered it might overwrite the very blocks that you are trying to recover.

I found that out, years ago, trying to recover pictures of a granddaughter who has since died. Some of her best pictures were lost forever, and ever since I have adhered to the simple maxim: never, ever, work from the drive you are trying to recover. Period. Always connect it to other media for the recovery program AND storage of recovered files.
John

JL  –  10 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+33)

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@3 jpotato

“Do not install on the drive you want to recover” is somehow misleading!
And I think it's no good idea to store all your data on Windows partition because Windows always has something to write.

My advice is:

If you need recovery on your Windows partition you should have a bootable recovery software medium ready, Linux or Win PE based. If not available, please generate it on another computer (nearly impossible for GOTD)! Because if Windows starts or continues all your potentially recoverable data may be overwritten by Windows itself and that's it!

And please use for recovering a whole partition a software which leaves the partition to recover untouched, e.g. by manipulating an image of this partition only. Thus you get a second (etc.) chance with other softwares.

For file recovery you should try different softwares anyhow as it's difficult to foretell which software will produce best results for some file. So you can combine successful results. And never forget to try "Deep scan" too if needed.

Best remedy is a regular backup in time (best: several generations) and at least for your system partition by using an imager. There are free ones and some given away here from time to time! But backups are up-to-date only a short time!

And it's like insurances: If you haven't got it you'll need it and vice versa (which doesn't mean dirty poems! LOL).

By the way I only twice needed a recovery software:
1 An USB-stick for SD-card with photos: Windows moved the contents but as there is no verify available (in contrast to Fastcopy), I couldn't guess that all target files where defect. I then was succesful with free PCInspector FileRecovery/SmartRecovery.
2 A lost partition being written on at that time (somehow destroyed by a defect internal CD writer opening and closing again and again). I couldn't recover it till now and I think it's no use anyhow as I found lots of bytes with zero contents there. And I lost some very useful big selfwritten programs from another OS forever (hardware and media recycled in between as bad luck happens). I hadn't done a backup yet and I wanted to use my programs in an emulator. But as I had partitioned this hard disk all other partitions where still fully functional after failure. If somebody tells you that partitioning is obsolete nowadays don't believe him.

DislikesCensorship  –  10 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+32)

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