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Written by David Jackson
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
 You are on that once-in-a lifetime trip to Paris, and you shoot dozens of pictures; your son just finished a 200-photo project for a term paper; you find Bigfoot rummaging through your trashcans, and you take that perfect photo. The bad news is all these irreplaceable files are on a thumb drive, hard drive or SD card, and guess what? You just hit delete. Now What?
You just hit delete while you were showing the Bigfoot pictures to your buddy at work on his PC laptop (that is now happily deleting all of your data). Out of desperation, you yank the drive out of your buddies awful PC and run to your beloved Mac. Plugging it in you hope for the best, the disk icon to show on your desktop… but instead you get the message “This drive has not been initialized, would you like to format it now?”
No! You cry, how could this be possible!
Um, okay, or maybe like me you just accidentally hit “Delete all” on your digital camera when you wanted to get rid of one bad shot.
Now What?
That’s where MediaRECOVER comes in. Follow along with me as I attempt to recover my pictures, and while I am at it, some of those Roy Clark MP3s I lost as well.
The main window: this is where you choose the type of scan you want to run on the media. “Scan” or quick scan is the first option; use this if you have a FAT format. It’s very fast and recovers most files quickly, but I have a corrupted file format, so it’s “Advanced Scan” for me.
Above: Next pick the drive you wish to recover from.
Now MediaRECOVER asks for a location to save the files to. I just made a new folder in my Documents folder. Then just click “Next”
The program starts scanning the media one sector at a time; for my 1 Gig SD picture card it was about 10 minuets to recover all of my data.
After scanning its heart out, the program presents a list of files that can be recovered. A check box beside each allows for selection, or simply use the “Select All” button. The actual restore only takes a few moments and… voila! A folder full of photos!
Anyone that has been using computers for very long has surely deleted a few files they later wished they could get back. MediaRECOVER is one solution to that problem.
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The Good: One of the easiest recovery solutions I have seen. Windows and Mac versions available.
The Bad: Defaults to storing recovered files on your Hard Drive. It would be nice to have an option. Doesn't support versions of OS X before 10.3.9.
The Skinny: If you are looking for a straight-forward solution for the recovery of
files, this program is great. It is easy to use and has a nice feature
set.
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