Tag Archives: datarecovery

Professionals use ReclaiMe to recover NAS data

A 5 star review from an IT pro is always good news. The fact that the reviewer compared ReclaiMe Ultimate to competing products  even adds value. Better than the rest, easier than the rest “I have tried with many other Data recovery software such as UFS Explorer, DiskInternals, Captain Nemo, none of them mange to… Read More »

Asking data recovery advice in community forums, is not without risk.

Online Community Support Forums and data recovery advice I like helping people when it comes to disk and data loss related problems. A few decades ago I was a frequent visitor and contributor of hard disk related Usenet newsgroups, for example “comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage”. And more recently I decided to spent a little time on this hobby… Read More »

Why you’ll never see me buy a WD My Passport

EDIT august 2019: Look at the number of issues with locked external WD disks. If  your enclosure ever breaks, you’ll lose all data on the disk. With a non encrypted disk you’d just open enclosure and move the disk to a new enclosure and all would be okay. NOT with those encrypting WD external drives.… Read More »

Using Reclaime Free RAID Recovery with iRecover

Reclaime Free RAID Recovery (www.freeraidrecovery.com) is a RAID recovery utility that detects parameters for broken RAIDs. Although it is free to use, additional steps are required when using it to recover data from a broken RAID. Once the parameters are detected you have to either: Write a copy of the RAID somewhere if all RAID’s… Read More »

iRecover NAS Data Recovery

Notice: As iRecover is no longer available I’m afraid you will need to look for an alternative. In this article there are some suggestions for NAS Data Recovery Software: https://www.disktuna.com/nas-data-recovery-software/ I was contacted by an iRecover user that was trying to do a NAS Data Recovery. It is clear to me from the start that… Read More »

iRecover Free Data Recovery explained

Use iRecover for free data recovery. The free iRecover download actually allows you to recover data without registering the software. Unlike other free data recovery software there is no limitations in file size or amount of data you can recover. When trying data recovery software, the ability to recover large files is actually something that… Read More »

DiskTuna DFR – Undelete for FAT, FAT32 and NTFS

Note that this software is no longer maintained or supported: It lacks exFAT support. It either works or it doesn’t. If it fails to recover lost photos from memory cards try JpegDigger instead. For more serious data loss issues use ReclaiMe (formatted volume, RAW volume, data loss from NAS etc.). Fully functional freeware to undelete your files! This means… Read More »

Data Recovery from unknown disk …

Data Recovery Software reviewed: iRecover, Recover My Files, Data Recovery Wizard and Wondershare Data Recovery. So … Found one of my old hard disks today and decided to see what’s on it. It appears empty. As soon as Windows sees the disk it prompts me initialize the disk. Disk Management shows the disk as unallocated.… Read More »