GetData Recover My Files

List Price: $49.95 Discount Price: $44.98

Features:

• You must complete an Auto-run. Once complete the system will download the latest version which is Vista compatible.

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Customer Reviews:

awesome!! [Posted on 2007-04-15]
I've only used one other file recovery program before and this one blows it out of the water!! I scanned a 160gig hard drive for every file type searchable and it took 6 days to scan. I should've narrowed it down to only the file types I was searching for. I performed another search for 3 file types and it only took 2 hours. It recovered my videos, pictures, and songs along with every other file imaginable!!!! Well worth the money!!! If your hard drive crashed because of a physical defect (making grinding noise), I wouldn't try it....send it in and pay the money if need-be. But if it crashed because the drive became unrecognizable, corrupted, or accidentally reformatted or deleted use this product before paying hundreds of dollars!!!

Amazing Program! [Posted on 2007-04-16]
I recently (4/7/07) had a major hard drive situation. I accidentally quick formatted the WRONG Hard drive, and erased 6 years of photos and data. All gone. I was sunk. The professional data recovery centers quoted over $1000 to recover all my data. So I looked for software. I tried several different programs, some rated even higher than "Recover My Files" in software ratings. None of them retrieved all my data, and none of them recovered my file structure.

"Recover My Files" did it all. It took a long time to run on my 160GB hard drive (20 hrs), but it recovered EVERYTHING. Compared with the $1000 fee it was over a 90% discount to get the same results. Have you ever been in a store, spotted something that you need at a 90% discount, and NOT bought it? Exactly. This software is worth the price, and if you are not sure you can set it loose on your hard drive for free. Only pay if it finds what you are looking for.

Great program. [Posted on 2007-07-17]
I have used this program on four occasions and have been able to recover all the files on a formatted disk on two occasions, all the files on a USB memory stick and recover about 90% of the files I tried to recover from a completely crashed HD.

Like the other reviewers who were able to use this I think it is an amazing program. I have no idea why the one person never got it to work, but if you have a problem and you are unsure about if it's worth the investment you can download a trial version and see if it is able to find your files. You can open the files to see if they are readable and pay for the full version later to recover everything it finds.

Recover My Files [Posted on 2007-08-09]
I would have given this product a 5 star, however, the version that came from Amazon is an older version and when I ran it, it took 4 days instead of the 8 hours that it took me to run the latest version downloaded from the GetData website. I ended up returning it and downloaded the latest and it took me less because when I try to save, it took forever to do anything since it ate up all of my virtual memory from the machine.
To be fair, the latest version recovered all the files that I lost (I reformatted my HD accidently through recovering from a crash). I would still recommend it but I would get the latest even if you had to pay a little more.

Recovered most files off crashed hard drive [Posted on 2008-01-14]
I think this is an excellent product. My laptop hard drive crashed. I put it in a USB enclosure and bought RMF after reading reviews. It has a high rating, and I think it deserves it. I was able to recover most of my files off a drive with thousands of disk read errors.

A prior amazon review indicated that they got an old version from amazon.com and to pay more and get the most recent version. I was able to download the free upgrade to the latest version.

Because my hard drive had was bad, producing thousands of disk read errors, the recovery took a long time. It seams that each disk error has several seconds of retry. But stopping the scan after a sufficient amount of time, did cause the program to proceed. It would be nice if the delay (retry reads?) that occurs with each disk read error, could be reduced. I suspect that this is at a low level and may not be within RMFs control.

I was quite impressed that I was able to recover files off of this bad drive.

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