Well, I used the FREE version of this program a few weeks ago and I was favourably impressed by its performance.

So I guess that the PRO version, namely this GAOTD, is even better, although even the FREE version supports the creation of a bootable CD or USB disk to recover data in case Windows doesn't boot up anymore (==> 62 MB in size only).

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Lazesoft-Data-Recovery-Home.shtml

So there's no point of giving it 65% THUMBS DOWN without comments....LOL!

But 114 MB for a program like this?? Come on....


BEST FREEWARE ALTERNATIVES (Google them as I can't post any link today)

1. to recover deleted files from HDD:

- (Portable) Undelete 360
- Recuva (by Piriform)
- Undela 3.8.3 (==> Cool app)
- Wise Data Recovery
- (Portable) Toolwiz File Recovery 1.3.0.0
- (Portable) Pandora Recovery
- (Portable) PC Inspector File Recovery
- Portable Free File Undelete
- DiskGetor Data Recovery FREE 2.1
- Restoration (==> Softpedia Pick)
- EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition
- EassosRecovery Free 3.2.1
- WinUtilities Free Undelete

2. to recover files from removable media only (scratched CD/DVD, USB Flash Drive etc…):

- Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier
- Data Recovery 1.0 (by Puran Software)
- Abyssal Recovery
- PhotoRec (tool for recovering pictures from memory cards and USB flash disks. Step By Step guide:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step
- IsoBuster (tool for recovering data/files/movies/music from CD, DVD, BD and HD DVD)
- CD Recovery Toolbox
http://www.oemailrecovery.com/cd_recovery.html

See also:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/recover-photo-and-data-from-scratched-or-damaged-cd

3. to recover entire partitions and restore damaged boot sectors/MBR/BCD:

- UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD),
- Paragon Rescue Kit Free Edition
- TestDisk
- MiniTool Power Data Recovery
- EASEUS Partition Recovery with Bootable Disk based on WinPE
http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/
- Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home
- PartitionGuru (Partition Manager + Recovery data & lost partitions tool)

See also:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/top-10-free-data-recovery-software

And for a limited period of time, you can even grab a FREE GENUINE LICENSE of the award-winning "EaseUS Data Recovery wizard Professional" here (you need a Facebook account though!!):

http://avinashtech.com/software/download-easeus-data-recovery-wizard-for-free-48-hours-giveaway/

So as usual, with Giovanni, there's no need to pay anything!!

Final Giovanni's verdict: the data recovery field is a darn SATURATED area nowadays: do you agree with me, dudes?? LOL!!!!

Enjoy!!

Giovanni (Super King of Freebies)  –  12 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+154)

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I'm not sure what is going on here but, according to the comparison page on the publisher's web site, the only difference between their free Home edition and their ($39, on sale for $18), Professional edition is the license and the DL size (62 MB vs 108 MB). The feature set for the home and pro editions are identical. Perhaps the Pro edition just includes more utilities for inclusion on the boot disk . However, again the web site offers no clues as to what is on even the home edition let alone the pro edition. Since the file recovery app itself is only about 6 MB, the rest is probably utils and apps for the boot CD. It would be nice to know what they are.
One important point to note is that, according to the Lazesoft web site, their boot disk is Windows PE based rather than the usual Linux base. This could be a huge benefit, especially if one can rebuild the image with custom apps. Since the 62MB freeware Home edition includes the same Win PE boot CD builder as the 114 MB GAOTD Pro edition, the better strategy would seem to be to DL and install the smaller freeware version and not have to be concerned with registration hassles.

For straight file recovery file recovery Recuva (4 MB), Pandora (3 MB, Easeus (4 MB) or Disk Digger (> 1 MB) are all freeware and are much smaller. Here is a results summary of tests on them that I did a year and a half ago:

Disk Digger found all but one of 295 deleted pictures, had the easiest interface, fast surface scan, good preview although slow, clear display of media, file type selection & actions. Recovered file names include media sector number.

Pandora missed two files but otherwise had identical results as Disk Digger. Its interface is somewhat obtuse. Preview hard to find and limited choices. Recovered file names include media cluster number.

Easeus found all possible deleted pics, has a good wizard and can operate on auto drive and has many recovery options. Raw recovered files are named sequentially. It was the only app to find and recover and reconstruct a deleted folder although the files were the same as were found in the surface scan.

Recuva missed six files (four due to a simple bug in its search algorithm which hopefully has been fixed by now), the file lengths were consistently longer (included extra bytes not in original file), good wizard with lots of hand holding. Raw recovered files are named sequentially.

Davory found all the files but in trial mode only recovers the first 200K bytes of each file but it was the most accurate in identifying and recovering erased files. the first 200 KB did however, include both the thumbnails and Exif data. The original files ranged from 1.6 MB to 2.9 MB. Davory is published by the same company that publishes WinHex, one of the best forensic disk editors around.

Disk Digger [http://diskdigger.org/],
Pandora Recovery [http://www.pandorarecovery.com/features/]
Easeus Data Recovery [http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm]
Recuva [http://www.piriform.com/recuva/features]
Davory [http://www.x-ways.net/davory/index-m.html]

I used HxD [http://mh-nexus.de/hxd/], a wonderful freeware file and disk Hex editor, to examine and analyze the flash card to make sure I found all the files. It has a very clean and simple GUI, is fast and is full functioned.

Art Kns  –  12 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+52)

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Yes, it is bigger than other data recovery software. It contains components to burn Bootable Data Recovery CD/USB disk.

Abby  –  12 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+37)

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As I understand the size of this tool is partly due to the Win PE and Linux based recovery CD tools included. It is not just a file recovery program like "recuva" from Pirisoft. It is for more serious cases when the system cannot boot.

It creates bootable CDs either Windows 32bits, 64bits tools or Linux based.

raz

raz  –  12 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+32)

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1 - it's laZesoft - the download file is named laSesoft

2 - it's $17.95 not $39.99

3 - there are free editions at http://www.lazesoft.com/download.html

4 - compare at http://www.lazesoft.com/lazesoft-data-recovery.html

-- "free" version has no bootable CD or USB build, no server support,

-- "home" version is also free and has bootable USB and CD (?!?), same as "pro",
-- "pro" version costs $18 and still has no server support.

Free "home" version and $18 "pro" version look the same, features wise -- perhaps everyone's web site is in need of editing?!?

If we install the free suite ("suite" has other tools for partition, boot, password, registry, backup and recovery -- see http://www.lazesoft.com/lazesoft-recovery-suite-free.html ) later, will it overwrite and compromise our "pro" recovery only version installed today?

I'll try it later this week and report back, so you all better download and install it today anyway just in case the "pro" version sparkles!

It is important for Lazesoft folks to answer back here as soon as possible to address our questions and clarify their offering since this is NOT an easy program to test same day.

Thank you Lazesoft and GOTD.

Peter Blaise  –  12 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+31)

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