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 »
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 »
Although Spinrite does have it’s used, it is not data recovery software. Even if accidentally recovers your data.
Search Google for ‘free data recovery software’ and chances are that you will run into ‘Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Free’. Why? The answer is two-fold. Easeus Data Recovery Wizard is a fairly good product. It is one of the few that passes our ‘data recovery from an unknown disk‘ test (see below block). Also, it… Read More »
There are two ways to tackle the problem of a RAW partition: Extract data (file recovery) or repair the partition. Repairing a RAW partition is only possible in a limited number of cases using tools like DiskPatch. Safest approach is always to use file recovery software to copy data to another disk.
Formatierte Daten retten. Wichtige Daten werden nach dem Formatieren verloren? Ist es möglich, Daten nach Formatierung wiederherzustellen? Although version 3 is quite old, the basic process is the same for current versions of iRecover. These videos may be a nice guide for German speaking users. If you need support you can reach me at DIYDataRecovery.nl or you can… Read More »
DIY Data recovery software tested against an unallocated and un-initialized hard disk. This is a continuation of a series, previous articles are here and here. Background info and a more detailed analysis of the contents of the hard disk is here. Disk Drill I guess you can call this software good looking, it’s a matter… Read More »
In these articles, here, here and here, I test various diy data recovery software against an old disk I dug up. In this article I will dig a little deeper into this so we can analyze what’s the trouble with this disk. This article will get a bit technical but it follows very simple logic, so give… Read More »
This article is a continuation of the article ‘Data Recovery from unknown disk‘ in which I examine a corrupt hard disk and try to find out what various DIY Data Recovery tools can recover from the disk. Last updated: 19 Oct 2016 – MiniTool Power Data Recovery In queue are: In short: The disk appears to be… Read More »
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 »