PC INSPECTOR File Recovery

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    • Windows
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    Discontinued

    This software was developed almost 2 decades ago by Alexander Grau. It was then known as DriveRescue. Although still available from Convar, it is now obsolete IMO. It is basically the same and unchanged since release. It does not even request elevation (required to access disks under Windows XP and up) and crashes even on smaller hard disks.

    Software is also not compatible with any recent Windows versions. See
    http://pcinspector.de/FileRecovery/faq.htm?po=3

    PC INSPECTOR File Recovery 4.x is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.

    Some Features are:
    1) Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged
    2)Recovers files with the original time and date stamp
    3)Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives
    4)Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available. Competition products cannot recover such files.
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    • Top negative comment  about 4 years ago • 0 replies
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    And it starts to show. This software was originally developed as DriveRescue by Alexander Grau almost two decades ago. It does not even request admin rights and crashes even on smaller hard disks. IMO obsolete.

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    Crashes with an access violation while enumerating the system's disks. Meaning that I can't even get to the first step of using the program: selecting which drive it's supposed to work on. Pretty poor quality this one.

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    MT_Ron
    Comment • over 10 years ago • 1 reply
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    From PC World review: "Alas, PC Inspector File Recovery was clueless when it came to a relatively simple test: recovering data from an NTFS drive that still contained data, but whose partition and file tables had been overwritten." Before I had read the review, PC Inspector File Recovery showed it would take DAYS just to scan my drive to see the files available to recover. Recuva does the scan in hours, I was able to recover most of my files, and it is also free.

    cboxgo

    Recuva didn't find a single file in my case. However, PC Inspector File Recovery seemed to identify around 45,000 deleted files that it could recover. It is true that PC Inspector File Recovery takes days to run, but what's the point of a file recovery product that recovers nothing?

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    • fat32
    • ntfs
    • fat16
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    Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about PC INSPECTOR File Recovery, and it has gotten 15 likes

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    PC INSPECTOR File Recovery was added to AlternativeTo by csvsai on Apr 20, 2009 and this page was last updated Aug 30, 2017. PC INSPECTOR File Recovery is sometimes referred to as PC INSPECTOR.

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