![]() ![]() ![]() Portability is not absolutely necessary - portability just gives you more options. However few Windows apps of any sort come with most WinPE-type setups, few Windows apps have versions for integrating with WinPE-type OSes, & very few Windows apps supply you with a WinPE-type bootable disc - all 3 are reasons that portable data recovery apps can be ideal. You can either plug the drive or device into another PC, boot to a backup app's bootable disc, or boot to a WinPE-type OS & run your cloning, backup, &/or recovery apps from there. To make that clone or backup, or to run recovery software direct without writing to the partition with lost files, you need an OS that's not on the same partition as the lost files. If the device is failing or if you can't/don't want to do without during a sometimes lengthy recovery, do a complete, sector by sector clone or backup, capturing not just known data but all free space as well - you can use recovery software on that clone or restored backup whenever, wherever. If it's a partition that Windows uses, consider cutting power rather than shutting down normally. ![]() if your PC/laptop doesn't know where the pieces are that you want back, the only thing keeping it from re-using those chunks for new data storage is luck - Do you feel lucky? As soon as you know you have lost a file (or files), stop any writing to that storage partition immediately - that increases your odds that everything you want/need is still there. Obviously you Do Not want to loose any pieces of a lost file before you get it back - the problem is that being *lost* by definition means that there's no way to prevent that as long as the storage device is in use. when you need & run a deep scan, because some of the pieces a recovery app might use to identify the file, or even the type of file have gone missing. It's more difficult when more data is unrecoverable, i.e. Recovery software tries to put all these pieces of files together. Complicating things, storage capacity is divided up into small chunks by the file system, & files are spread across, span however many of these chunks until all data's written. A data recovery app looks for the actual files, nevermind any TOC. When a file's lost, whether because of an accidental delete, a crash, or a *quick* format etc., it's the entries in that TOC that are effected, & not the actual data. And while it's still completely usable, larger display fonts in win7 aren't fully supported - sad to say I'm so used to text being cut off or over-running it's portion of the program window I seldom even notice it anymore, just now remembering to jot that down.ĭata recovery apps work because storage devices have a sort of Table of Contents listing where everything is. As already mentioned by others iCare Data Recovery does phone home whenever you start it. Like EASEUS Data Recovery it does use more resources than Recuva 64 bit. That said, I have been able to get iCare Data Recovery to work in the format without registering dsoframer.ocx, & the rest of the program works fine. Installation adds about 300 registry entries, most all caused by registering the included "dsoframer.ocx", a Microsoft file for opening Word docs that no longer seems to be available from Microsoft. ICare Data Recovery's program folder takes up ~7 MB with 23 files, 1 folder. Unfortunately I can't give you a success story where iCare Data Recovery brought a file back from the abyss when everything else failed - the last few times I've run a deep scan everything failed, including today's GOTD - but that doesn't mean I won't try again next time, & who knows. I'll still keep it, replacing the version on my drive for those times I want/need to run a deep, much more time consuming scan (& hopefully recovery) - it doesn't take up much space, & if Recuva isn't successful, I've got nothing to lose & everything to gain by running this & the similar EASEUS app. ![]() ICare Data Recovery would not be my 1st choice for simple jobs because it doesn't seem to offer a quick scan. ![]()
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