

I consider that to be the gold standard of recoveryware, and I am hoping that iCare is in the same league. That was a different animal -It was able to read thru 2 or 3 layers of overwrites on a camera memory card. I tried them all, including the much touted recuva, and didn't get any satisfaction until GAOTD turned me on to Easeus Data Recovery. I found, as several commenters have stated, that these programs are mostly all the same and they don't really work. I have both versions functioning now.Īs far as the effectiveness of these recovery programs, I have not had occaision to use this or the 3.5 version - my lessons were learned before that. Just in case the older version proved superior in any way, I appended the instalation folder with a 3.6 so it wouldn't merge or overwrite the older version. I just dragged the main application file over to a flash drive, and it opened just fine.
Icare data recovery software review portable#
I found this version to be as portable as 3.5. It wanted to copy the files to another drive instead of simply restoring the nuked partition or the files, which is a problem since there was over 500 GB of data to be recovered.Ĭan it not simply restore the partition or the files on the same drive on which they are located, or do I have to pay more to recover the "large" files and buy a new HDD as a destination for the recovery? OK, the data was primarily backup & not the only copy, but was from 3 different computers I would rather simply recover it on my backup drive than get yet another backup drive.Ĭan it not simply restore the partition or the files on the same drive on which they are located, or do I have to pay more to recover the "large" files and buy a new HDD as a destination for the recovery? OK, the data was primarily backup & not the only copy, but was from 3 different computers I would rather simply recover it on my backup drive than get yet another backup drive.
Icare data recovery software review zip file#
It told me that this version could only recover files under 32 kB, even though I had entered the registration key given in the ZIP file following installation and before starting the scan.Ģ.

After about 18 hours it had finished scanning the drive and found all my files and could offer previews, BUT, it couldn't recover them!ġ. I was thrilled to find this offered and dowloaded + installed it right away, and then set it to work on my 1.5 TB external hard drive that Partition Manager ruined when I tried to copy a partition from a notebook drive with R/W errors.
