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DIY DataRecovery iRecover - Proven do-it-yourself Data Recovery Software
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iRecover can recover it. As long as
your disk spins, iRecover doesn't care how you lost your data and
can get it back. iRecover is a simple to use yet powerful tool
for recovering data from hard disks, memory cards, RAID arrays and Network
Attached Storage (NAS)
devices. It is almost completely automatic. iRecover gets data where
other software fails. It is also very safe: iRecover does not write
to the disk, and it monitors critical hard disk parameters while scanning to
make sure it is safe to continue. iRecover is the most complete data recovery
program available. In addition to outstanding recovery capabilities,
it offers everything a data recovery engineer could ask
for: two-pass disk cloning (with reverse cloning), a disk viewer
that interprets disk structures, automatic RAID 0 and RAID 5
parameter detection and access to S.M.A.R.T. data to
review a disk's physical status.
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iRecover features |
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Works in Microsoft Windows XP, 200X
(Server), Vista, Win7/8 (32-bit and 64-bit) |
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Supported file systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/3/4, XFS |
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Safe to use: read-only and monitors hard disk health |
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3 operating modes: Photo, Disk and RAID recovery |
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Fully automated RAID detection and
recovery, select the (former) RAID disks and go |
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HD temperature monitor (unique!);
iRecover will pause when your disk gets too hot |
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Two pass disk imager with reverse cloning |
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Configure hard disk access for bad disks |
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Advanced configuration options for experienced users |
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Easy to use wizard type operation |
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Can handle millions of files and folders |
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Support for Windows dynamic disks |
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Support for md-raid volumes |
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Most bang for your buck, guaranteed |
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Note: If you don't know what some of the
above features mean, don't worry, just know that iRecover works
no matter how you lost data or what type of disk you are recovering
data from. |
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1. Select a Recovery Mode:
Start iRecover and select a recovery mode. Select Image
recovery to recover digital images and movies from
memory cards and such. Use Data Recovery for Windows and
Linux to recover data from corrupt, formatted or deleted Windows or Linux volumes. RAID Recovery helps
you recover data from broken or degraded RAID arrays.
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2. Select a disk to scan:
Select the volume you need to recover data from. If the
volume is missing (because it was deleted), right click or
choose More functions and select Scan for Missing
Partitions, or if there was only one volume on the disk
select Define Manually. |
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3. Disk Scan and Analysis: This step requires no user interaction, however the settings
on the right side of the screen can be used to modify disk
access settings, which can be useful when dealing with a
physically damaged disk. Depending on the size and the state of
the disk, this step may require a few hours to complete. |
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4. Select files:
In the disk tree you can select folders and files for
recovery. As soon as the folder tree is displayed the
validation process runs. You do not have to wait for that to
finish! File validation is a technique for assessing the quality
of the recovery - files in the list are examined for structures specific to a file type.
You can select files regardless of their validation state.
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5.
Copy data to a safe location:
Select a drive to store the
recovered files. This should be a different disk than the
one you are trying to recover data from. Any drive that
Windows assigns a drive letter to, is fine. This includes local
hard disks, USB disks, mapped network drives etc. Copying
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Why you should use iRecover.
Why?
Because iRecover is different from other data recovery software.
It is better. iRecover gets data where other software doesn't.
There are many different approaches towards data recovery,
finding data on a disk and 'guessing' file system parameters.
Some are fairly straightforward and often work. That's
what most other data recovery software does: taking shortcuts.
If they find one 'trace' of what appears to be a valid volume,
they base the rest of the recovery on this information. It almost looks like
magic, scanning starts and within minutes
you see your files appear.
iRecover follows a different approach and treats the disk as if it were a disaster area. It does
not rely on easy to find pieces and file system fragments. As far as
iRecover is concerned, that information may be corrupt as well.
Instead it methodically scavenges the disk, looking at every
piece of 'evidence'. And only when it is satisfied that the
evidence points to a good solution, it will draw conclusions.
Until then, the file system is 'unknown'. iRecover may seem
slower, but it will get data from disks where other data
recovery software fails.
What do you need to do a recovery?
Your 'recovery station'; a PC running Windows with iRecover
installed, and attached to it:
- A known good disk to copy data to
- The hard disk you need to recover data from
It is recommended to attach the disks directly
to SATA ports, it is faster and more reliable. If you do not have enough
available at least connect the disk you want to recover data from to a
SATA port, so that iRecover can monitor the disk health.
If the
disk contains bad sectors a SATA connection is required.
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