The Good

Recoveryer 2008 looks intuitive at our first glance. The design and layout is the easiest one among any of the data recovery programs reviewed. With only one simple click, Recoveryer 2008 will have all storage devices like hard drives, USB drives and even the Windows Recycle Bin scanned for any deleted files. What really surprises us is that there are definitely all types of files included within this fantastic tool: quite different from its competitors who can only perform E-mail recovery or Image recovery within single program, Recovery 2008 offers all E-mail, Image, Media files and Text recovery in one program! This is the comprehensive solution that gives users access to the lost files.

Besides, Recoveryer 2008 can manually apply the file types for most file options. At the Setting tab, users are allowed to define any file types in the forms provided to meet their demands, including: Doc, Image, Media and Others. This is becoming a necessity in order to compete with any other data recovery programs available in the market. What’s more, to confirm whether the file is correct or not, you can preview it before any further operation.

The Bad

The Bottom Line

What the Recoveryer 2008 comes down to is a high performing data recovery program with solid functions. It is obvious to see how it beats the rest as what Recoveryer 2008 provides is more detailed and sophisticated on its scanning and recovering capabilities. With the wide-range scanning extensions as well as allowing the users to add the the file type if needed, there are still a few decent features that will add the attractiveness of Recoveyer 2008. Therefore, if you are looking for a data recovery program to recover your deleted files, Recoveryer 2008 can take the cake. We highly recommend Recoveryer to any regular users.

The Good: Restore My Files is created to restore deleted or list files, Graphic files, Music &Video files and Zip files. It does a good job in getting a very large amount of the files. The software is simple to use, and you do not have to be a computer expert to figure it out and run it effectively. This is another one of the programs with the live updates and online help abilities, which can make it very easy for users once users install it on system.

It supports standard hard drives like IDE/ATA/CSCI as well as any hard drive larger than 8 GB; besides, it also supports hard drives formatted with Windows FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS files systems. The definition recovery database is very large, too, so it offers data recovery from files lost by Recycle Bin to files lost by formatted hard drives.

The Bad: While Restore My Files offers recovery from a large amount of different types of data, it still does not offer as much as some of the recovery, including its inability to recover the deleted or lost E-mail, data over internet or even data that located on removable media and RAID disks.

The Bottom Line: Overall, Restore My Files will get the job done. It may not do it as great as our No.1 products, although it is close. The program looks good at interface, and seems to do a really good job in recovering the data it tests. The scans find out a great deal of what were lost on the system, even the files lost years ago can be detected as well. But it misses some things that were picked up by other programs.

Our Top Brand Review’s No.4 winner is Restore My Files. This is a safe and easy-to-use data recovery solution that is designed to recover deleted or lost files from hard drives, recycle bin, smart media, memory stick, and so on. This is totally an affordable do-it-yourself data recovery operation for both novice and veteran.
Although Restore My Files is good at what it recovers, the combination of a lack of capability to recover data via network is the reason why it is less powerful than our No.1 product.

Feature Set

This program allows you to recover important documents and files, which has been deleted or lost by accidental deletion or software failure. What’ more, Restore My Files provides data recovery from formatted hard drive or district formatted drives without changing any data after finishing the whole process while other products might have error data after recovering. However, Restore My Files is missing a few features that we feel should have built in high-quality data recovery products. For example, the ability to recover E-mail data can not found in Restore My Files.

Ease of Use

We consider that this application has a well-designed interface and is as easy as the N0.1 and No.2 products on our Top Brand Reviews. Simple select the drive that you are trying to extract the data from and then click on the start button, Restore My Files will begin scanning as required. You can also go to advanced scan to speed up your recovery.

Recovery Effectiveness

Restore My Files found and recovered most files we tested. When the process came to any error files, Restore My Files would pop up a wizard asking to continue or not, and you may choose yes to continue. But we feel disappointed that when this application came to an error application, it would stop scanning and close all its procedure. We considered Restore My Files should have skipped it and go on anyway.

Search Capabilities

Restore My Files search engine is good. It allows you to search file both by extension and name. There are three file names contained, including JPG, DOC, and ZIP

Help/Documentation

Restore My Files supports help/documentation in several ways, including a built-in help segment within its interface, FAQ pages and E-mail supports.

Summary

Restore My Files is a good data recover application that can restore deleted files, lost Zip files, lost Music and Video files deleted from an application, command line, Hard Drive and the Recycle Bin, with its outstanding tool . Although lacking a few features, it still performs well at those data it covers.

The Good:Power Data Recovery will get your data somewhat back to the previous state. By somewhat, I mean it will recover your data after accidental deletion, repartition, virus attack, software failure, and system crash. This also means it will only recover data information while lacking the ability of photo recovery, CD/DVD recovery and E-Mail recovery. You will have to purchase some other products of MT-Solution to completely recover all styles of data.

The database of Power Data Recovery seems to be upgraded frequently, which is great since new forms of data are always coming out. The features are simple to use and understand. For novices to computer, Power Data Recovery offers Case Study, which including explanation of all modules for better negotiation. The support is also very great.

The Bad: Well, although Power Data Recovery does have some great things to offer, it leaves something behind. It does not contain any data recovery of E-mail, photo, CD/DVD. This also means that only data recovery is available when you taking this program. As for the price, we consider that Power Data Recovery should have built more functions within it.

The Bottom Line: When purchasing a data recovery program, you may just think files information is all you need to be recovered from. This is incorrect thinking. There are so many styles of data out there which are really important to you for wide use of computers. Most data recovery programs offer recovery from many forms of data. As for Power Data Recovery, it just recovers data format like MC Official files, graphic and picture files, audio and video files, and even files deleted by accidental formatting.

Our No.5 product is Power Data Recovery from MT-Solution. Power Data Recovery is risk-free and READ ONLY data recovery software that helps you recover deleted or lost data from all common Windows problem and manual error operation. It is a good data application that scans your hard drives and then allows you to view data list simply before you make any recovering action.

Feature Set

Power Data Recovery is built with powerful features to help you search for lost data. There are four main modules contained in this program, including Undeleted Recovery, Advanced Recovery, Deep Recovery and Resume Recovery. This software always performs well at recovering data deleted or lost by additional deletion, formatted hard drives, system crash and reinstall systems. However, through this program you can not recover data over network which means that it lacks the ability to recover deleted E-mail, or recover data from any removable media. Photo and CD/DVD are other forms of data this software can not recover.

Ease of Use

The main interface of Power Data Recovery is as well-designed as its competitors listed on our Top Brand Reviews. Its screens are fairly easy to navigate from and offers step-by-step wizard that walks you through the whole process either.

Recovery Effectiveness

Power Data Recovery recovered all data which is within its category.

Search Capabilities

Power Data Recovery allows you to search files by extension, name, and location, but not allows you to search by date, size. After finishing recovering, Power Data Recovery provides users with three kinds of view: view as text, view as image, and view as video/audio. We like these very much for they provide us much convenience when searching.

Help/Documentation

Power Data Recovery provides various help for users. Its Case Study provides users with detailed guide as well as frequent asked question. There is also help available in the form of E-mail and user manual in its official website.

Summary

In a word, Power Data Recovery is a good data recovery program that can scan and restore data. With some other key features, this product can perform as effective as our No.1 product does.

The Good: Paretologic Data Recovery is very effective at retrieving deleted files from explore devices such as cameras, iPod, MP3 player and flash drives. It will take your data back to the destination it once was as well as saving recovered files to a selected destination. It did a great job of recovering a wide variety of file types, including recycled, compressed and encrypted.

This software helps a lot when I want to recover my E-mails. Paretologic Data Recovery offers three scans, including scan the default email client, scan a specific email profile and select a specific data file to scan. So you can feel safe from losing any possible e-mail data that may be extremely important to you.

The software itself is very friendly and easy to navigate and use. The update schedule makes it always get up with the latest version automatically or manually. We like its personal design of scanning result very much for it shows every necessary detail about the data once you point your cursor to any result.

The Bad: Although it recovers from many styles of data and performs strong capabilities at the data it scanned, it does miss some data categories on its list. For example, Paretologic Data Recovery can not recover any data from formatted hard drives, photo and CD/DVD information.

The Bottom Line: Paretologic Data Recovery definitely gets the job done. It will recover most data lost by system reinstall, virus attacks and accidental deletion on your system. Although it lacks the capability of supporting data recovery from formatted hard drive; it dose not make us disappointed with its wonderful performance.

Paretologic Data Recovery is our No.3 winner on our Top Brand Review. This is another excellent product by Paretologic Inc., which enjoys great reputation among software marketplace. This data recovery program has an extremely easy-to-use interface, a convenient update schedule and highly effective features.
With this program, you can search files both by content or name, so whether the file is in recycle bin or other local disk, whether you want to search unnamed files or just bad sectors and old partition, ParetoLogic Data Recovery can find them easily.

Feature Set

Offering one of the strongest feature sets, ParetoLogic Data Recovery allows you to scan your hard drive for deleted data like files, images, documents, videos, music, and then brings them back to life. This software also recovers files that have been removed to recycle bin and even files that have been lost due to power failure and virus attacks. You can preview most files before recovering them and search for text that might be in lost file list. Besides, this great product contains the capability to recover files from many peripheral storage devices. However, this application can not recover any files from a formatted hard drive. You can get this feature at ParetoLogic Data Recovery Pro version.

Ease of Use

ParetoLogic Data Recovery is the most easy-to-use data recovery software we have ever met. It allows you to range the list of what is recoverable and easy to find. From recent deleted files to files you think have been deleted for a long time from hard drive, ParetoLogic Data Recovery has the ability to recover them sophistically.

Recovery Effectiveness

ParetoLogic Data Recovery recovers a wide range of files types, including recycled, compressed and encrypted as well as revived files to certain destination from most Windows systems. Except for data lost in formatted hard drive, we found this product is really effective for what it did.

Search Capabilities

With ParetoLogic Data Recovery, you can search files both by location and extension. It features a small footprint that doesn’ t take up much space to scan quickly and recover effectively.

Help/Documentation

As one product of ParetoLogic software, ParetoLogic Data Recovery is backed by the company’s outstanding customer care and support program.

Summary

With ParetoLogic Data Recovery you don’t need to worry about losing data and can start recovering your data immediately. It is easy to operate for both novices and advanced users. You can free download and get a free trial before you buy.

One of the outstanding features in Total Recall Data Recovery Software is that it provides many built-in recovery powerful functions separately, including Lost Photo Recovery, CD&DVD Optical Disks, and Deleted E-Mail. Those professional and individual features make data recovery even effective than others, so it is highly recommended to users who are searching software for complete data recovery. But it costs much more than any other products on our Top Brand Reviews.

Although it is not a big deal, the physical looks are very nice. This is another attraction of Total Recall Data Recovery Software.

The Bad: The bad part about this application is that even though it provides much stronger features, it still misses a few features like the line update capability and certain general settings concerned with this program.

The Bottom Line: While having a very appealing name, Total Recall Data Recovery Software does also quite keep up with the rest of the competitors. If you do not care about the expensive price, you might choose this product as well, for Total Recall Data Recovery Software is really powerful software with good quality.

Total Recall Data Recovery Software for every Windows systems is our No.2 rated data recovery software. It provides data recovery from hard drives, camera cards, RAID, deleted e-mail, CDs and DVDs and many other storage devices that are based on your Windows Systems. It also recovers Mac Volumes from Windows. Total Recall Data Recovery Software offers great help support and step-by-step instructions that walks you through all its process from the very beginning to the end.

Feature Set

Total Recall Data Recovery Software by Total Recall allows you to select various styles of data on your system. It will quickly recover data from hard drives (including RAID), camera cards, flash drives, USB, FireWire, DVD/CD media with ease as this program is divided into five main categories, including Disk and Files, Deleted, Photo, Optical and E-mail. You can even recover Macintosh formatted devices. With this extremely powerful tool, you can get back your data in no time, for each function in Total Recall Data Recovery Software is professional enough for data recovery.

Ease of Use

We found Total Recall Data Recovery Software is easy to use. On the main interface, five usage sectors are displayed in order. Select the extension you want to recover, and then it will go on scanning as well as showing you the estimated time left.

Recovery Effectiveness

You can get data back no matter when it was deleted and lost. This application only supports data recovery on your system, so you can not recover data from removable devices.

Search Capabilities

You can search for files by location and extension in Total Recall Data Recovery Software. After each scan it will display its original names for better reorganization. But it does not offer a search engine, which can be used in searching files by the name or size.

Help/Documentation

Total Recall offers help for Total Recall Data Recovery Software in the form of an excellent, built-in help section, which provides technical support, user guide, and help desk for users.

Summary

A thoughtful help support together with a well-organized interface and powerful feature sets contained in Total Recall Data Recovery Software, this is certainly a good data recovery product, especially for advanced users or technical requirements.

The Good: When you purchase data recovery software, you want to get back the data that is currently lost from various cases like system reinstall, hackers attack, or even a hard drive format. VirtualLab Data Recovery dose this with great success. The program is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. It does not take a computer savvy person in order to run it, but that, if you can operate a computer, you can manage this software well. I also appreciate a range of definitions recovered for this application, which is really wide enough for both personal and business use.

VirtualLab Data Recovery recovers from many forms of data. Along with deleted files and corrupted or formatted drives, you will be promised recovering data from PC partition, MAC partition, Outlook& Thunderbird Email, CD&DVD-ROM Disks or even photos. There are all great features that can contribute to much more safe to your data.

One of the really great things about VirtualLab Data Recovery is that it can pops up a notice if there is any update version available when you start you computer. Then you can deicide to manually update online or not. Last but not least, this excellent program is able to inform users to download & install CD/DVD and Email module if your system does not exist any so that you can continue your comprehensive data recover with ease.

The Bad: The only bad thing in VirtualLab Data Recovery is that it contains too many details. If you are about to search any lose data from VirtualLab Data Recovery, you should be patient enough when using this software, for there are so many categories within it.

The Bottom Line: When coming to conclusion, VirtualLab Data Recovery is your best choice. It gets the job done very effectively and efficiently. The user-friendly support centre helps a lot because a lot of users who are not very strong with computer operation would like to take this software. It offers data recovery from a very large amount of contents, and the database updates quite often, so it can perform data recovery safely.

The product of VirtualLab Data Recovery by BinaryBiz ranks No.1 position on our Top Brand Reviews, which is our best recommendation for data recovery. This application offers strong features setting combining with a well-organized interface and the most effective data recovery capability among all applications we have been tested. It is suitable for both personal and business activities for its wide range data recovery contents.

Feature Set

VirtualLab Data Recovery is like six data recovery program in one as it offers six contents of recovery, including PC Partition Recovery, Deleted File Recovery, Mac Partition Recovery, E-mail Recovery, CD/DVD ROM Recovery and Photo Recovery within its main menu, while other programs just recover deleted files or camera cards. To better recover your image, VirtualLab Data Recovery will even make a sector-by-sector disk image recovery so that a recovery can be performed safely. It supports many file systems such as FAT, NTFS, NSF, Mac and more. When come to any error file during recovery process, VirtualLab Data Recovery will inform users with a wizard asking to continue or skip. Then you can choose to continue, and it will go on recovering without affecting any result it makes.

Ease of Use

Using VirtualLab Data Recovery is truly an excellent choice when you are looking for proper data recovery software. Its main screen shows users with six basic features as well as additional instructions and advanced setting companied on each feature. There is no error or problem while downloading and installing VirtualLab Data Recovery.

Recovery Effectiveness

As one effective software, VirtualLab Data Recovery is able to recover data from accidental deletion, loss on drives (such as hard drive), partition table, formatted hard disk, or even system collapse. We are impressed that VirtualLab Data Recovery finds and recovers every deleted file during our test while not having changed any data after recovery.

Search Capabilities

VirtualLab Data Recovery’ s search capability is really strong. To find a lost file with this application, you can just simply choose a recovery module on the interface. This product allows you to search by file extension only.

Help/Documentation

VirtualLab Data Recovery does a pretty good job supporting help on its interface, which contains links to User Guides, Tech Support and more. Users can also come to its official websites for further help.

Summary

VirtualLab Data Recovery lets you recover your data from hard drives, CD-ROMs, external devices, digital camera cards and iPods. With more search capabilities, an easy-to-use organization and some other best help support around, this software is simply the best one.