Recovery software.

[benjamat]

I recently had a backup disk lose its formatting and for the first time in my life (long time) have had to deal with losing crucial data.

I tried to find free software but anything available was just not good enough, did not see drive or disk, or simply did not function well.

I tried a few that were on trial offer but still not good and the only one that came close to finding all my files was getdataback which like all of these would not actually recover the files until you paid.

My question is what is the best recovery software within sensible price guidelines ie - 20-40.

Many thanks

 

[corkyg]

I have just converted my data drive to a RAID 1 array (120GB) and that provides real time, constant mirroring. Should either of the drives fail, all the data is recoverable by replacing it with a new drive, and letting the RAID software image the mirror on to it.

 

[shortylickens]

File Scavanger has worked great for me.