Description
Active@
File Recovery Standard is one of the more effective and affordable sector-based
file recovery utilities on the market. At only about $35, it's considerably
cheaper than R-Studio Data
Recovery, though it lacks that product's support for non-Windows
file systems. However, like R-Studio, it will deal with RAID volumes.
Active@ File Recovery is easy to use
and offers both a quick scan mode for simple undelete operations, and
sector-based "super" scan that will pull up virtually everything
that's ever been written to a partition, or the entire disk if the partition
structure is wonky. The interface is a bit technical in its language, but so is
the task you're trying to perform. Still, it's not as easy for beginners as
Piriform's free Recuva.
The $65 Professional
version of Active@ File Recovery--the best bargain--comes with a
partition recovery utility. That's a nice feature to have, because sometimes by
simply restoring a partition you can get your OS back or recover files using
standard copy methods. Like the Standard version, it installs under Windows
only, so you'll need to attach the drives you'll be recovering data from to a
working system.



