I'm always baffled by software developers who claim to be the absolute best at data recovery but then require the PC user to install their software on the same hard drive from which data is to be retrieved. Either that's rank stupidity on the part of a developer pretending to know what it's doing, or couldn't-care-less.

Fact is, if you've lost some precious files from your PC the very last thing you should be doing is installing anything at all on that same drive because of the risk of that installation writing itself over the very data you're trying to get back.

I don't know if the "famous editors" mentioned on the Aiseesoft website as having favourably reviewed this software have the faintest clue about data recovery or are merely famous because, er, Aiseesoft says they are.

I do know that where any recovery software is concerned, it (a) isn't guaranteed to work; (b) should never be installed on the same drive from which it's hoped to retrieve data; and (c) there's a ton of recovery software out there available at no cost whatsoever, amongst them , Piiriform's Recuva, available in a portable version which means it doesn't need installing and thus, doesn't write anything to the HDD.

I can't find any reference to a portable version on Aiseesoft's website so have no encouragement to go anywhere near this giveaway. Thanks, GOTD, but no thanks.

MikeR  –  5 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+74)

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MikeR, Quite right and in addition to all that one should not even download the recovery program on the system to have files recovered from since there will be additional writes to the drive to simply download the file, let alone extract it if it's zipped and installing it which will involve writes to the users temporary folder as well as the installation writes propper... really, serious recovery software should have a WinPE option to avoid even executing the operating system from the drive with data to be recovered since windows is frequently writing event logs and performance logs to the system drive even when the users applications are doing no writes themselves. Ideally it should mount the drive with lost data to be recovered, if possible, in read only mode, and image the drive to a clean volume or an image file on a different known good drive and then use that image or imaged copy of the original drive to scan through so nothing is changed on the source drive and if that drive had bad sectors because it was failing then the heavy load of deep scan would occour on the image on a good drive and not hammer the final nails in the coffin for the failing drive.

MikeR, Quite right and in addition to all that one should not even download the recovery program on the system to have files recovered from since there will be additional writes to the drive to simply download the file, let alone extract it if it's zipped and installing it which will involve writes to the users temporary folder as well as the installation writes propper... really, serious recovery software should have a WinPE option to avoid even executing the operating system from the drive with data to be recovered since windows is frequently writing event logs and performance logs to the system drive even when the users applications are doing no writes themselves. Ideally it should mount the drive with lost data to be recovered, if possible, in read only mode, and image the drive to a clean volume or an image file on a different known good drive and then use that image or imaged copy of the original drive to scan through so nothing is changed on the source drive and if that drive had bad sectors because it was failing then the heavy load of deep scan would occour on the image on a good drive and not hammer the final nails in the coffin for the failing drive.
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TK  –  5 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+36)

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MikeR,
Absolutely, if the drive that needs to be checked is your c-station I would even advise to take is out and check it separately cause even switching-on your PC always writes data to the main drive; update checks and the auto launchers etc. etc.

MikeR, Absolutely, if the drive that needs to be checked is your c-station I would even advise to take is out and check it separately cause even switching-on your PC always writes data to the main drive; update checks and the auto launchers etc. etc.
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lidl1  –  5 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+13)

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GOTD - You need to state upfront (in all offers like this) that this is only a One Year license. That does not become evident in this case until the very last minute, after the registration code is received.

Ian  –  5 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+55)

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