Christmas Giveaway Recover My Files
Recover My Files is a commercial data recovery software for Microsoft's Windows operating system to restore deleted files.
There are basically two options when you are dealing with data loss: the first is to access data backups to recover files, while the second relies on file recovery software to recover the data. What many users do not know is the fact that the operating system is not removing files completely from the hard drive if the user or a program deletes them.
All that it does for performance sake is to overwrite the information where the file is located on the computer's hard drive. That's the reason why file recovery software is usually able to recover files on hard drives with an increased chance if the deletion did not happen to long ago (the only danger to those deleted files is that they are fully or partially overwritten by new data).
Recover My Files
Recover My Files is an award winning file recovery software for the Windows operating system that is actually more than just another data recovery software. Let us look at the basics first.
Recover My Files starts with a wizard after installation that can be used to configure a file or drive recovery process. This wizard does not have to be used but it can streamline the process so that it becomes easier for inexperienced users.
Recover Files allows a user to recover:
- individual files have been deleted and emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin.
- files have been deleted and bypassed the Windows Recycle Bin.
- files have been deleted by a virus, trojan or worm.
- a file of the same name has saved over another important file.
- files have been lost by some other unknown cause.
Recover Drive allows a user to recover files if
- a drive has been formatted;
- a drive has been formatted and windows has been reinstalled;
- a Windows recovery or system restore has resulted in a fresh installation of Windows and the previous user created files are missing;
- a drive letter has gone missing;
- the drive is recognized by your PC as RAW and not files can be read;
- or some other problem has effected the entire contents of the drive
It is furthermore possible to add Raid information or a disk image to the recovery process. Recover My Files offers two modes of searching for recovered files. The first is an automatic search on a computer's hard drive for all deleted files, or to perform the search for deleted files and afterwards for files that are no longer listed in the Filesystem but with content on the hard drive. The second file recovery option is more thorough but takes longer to complete.
The computer user can select specific file types that should be recovered, e.g. Microsoft Office documents, database and financial files, archives or photos.
The scan itself will check every sector of the selected hard drive for files that match the types selected by the user, and displays those in the results list as well. This obviously takes longer than the first recovery option but usually yields better results.
The data recovery software will sometimes display generic names instead of the original files names which can be attributed to lost file information. It is still possible to recover those files if they are displayed in the result list (but it may sometimes be difficult to identify them properly).
Recoverable files can be selected and saved to the computer system. It is recommended to save them to a different hard drive to avoid them overwriting part of the files that have not been recovered yet.
Drive Recovery
Drive recovery is the second option that Recover My Files provides. Here it is again possible to perform a quick search for missing drives, or to specify additional files for the sector based search of the hard drive. The search itself is divided into two phases:
- Phase 1: of the search attempts to locate and rebuild then entire lost partitions. Partition recovery should take between 1 - 45 minutes to complete (depending on the size of the drive, the number of files that it contains and the speed of the computer / drive). Learn about steps within phase 1 - partition recovery.
- Phase 2 of the search will automatically commence. Phase 2 uses the selected file types to help locate the missing Filesystem records (the file and folder structure) on the drive
File recovery reports can be printed, exported to csv for further analysis.
Verdict
Recover My Files is an excellent file recovery software. The disk recovery option sets it apart from many free file recovery software programs that usually do not come with those options. Users who are interested in the program can download it from the developer's website. The program is fully functional except for the ability to save files that have been discovered by the program.
Great article, now send me a license, thanks
Freaken Awesome, just what i’ve been needing
A must have in time of emergency, love to have a free license if not too late.
Thank you.
can i get one? by reading review, it looks like great software..
I hope I’m not too late Id Like a free copy
Thanks
Hi ghacks.net!
If it’s not too late? Sure I wish to participate, count me in!
Seems to be a great interesting software, Recover my files.
Would love to test it!!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Best regards
Nick
Count me in too, please, if it’s not too late also.
Count me in, if it’s not too late.
Thanks for the great reviews and free software license offers. This sounds like just what I need when my brother inadvertant deletes all of his photoes as he has done before. Thanks again.
reviews are raving for this software. hope I am the lucky one :)
I could have used this program last week!! I would like to keep it in my arsenal.
License please…
This software would save my b-tt if it can do what I hope it will!
I would love one license!
Cool giveaway. Please count me in.
Thanks.
I’ve heard good things about this software in the past, so please give it to me!
Very generous of you! I’d love to try this software!
Came across lots of good reviews for this product. Would be good to have one
thanks much for the prize
i would love this app
A very nice software. Have used an old version in the past and would love to get the latest version. Thanks
thank u very much….!!!
Cool tool. I allways wanted to have a valid one.. tiered of using fake / trimmed down versions…
I hope I get this software. There was a game that I really loved but I lost it in a virus attack. Well bits of it. And I have also lost the game disc. Only got the disc used for loading. This would be extremely useful
Yay! I would love to have a license for this program. Thanks!
Hi,
Another giveaway by Ghacks. Congratulation. A very handy and useful program i must say. Do count me in, Thanks
hi ^^ can i have one? ^^
Please sent a Recover my file license.
Thanks
yeah, count me, tooooo. :)
Thanks for the offer! I need a licence as I have to recover photos from my camera xd card. Please count me in.
please… I want a licence!!!!!!
Thanks for the offer!
not being heavily technically competent, and partially disabled, this would be great to recover a disk that I have with data I really need.
thanks!
this is exactly what i need!
Thanks, I’d love to get one copy
thanks…review is nice. i would like to have this software…thanks
The disk recovery option mentioned in the review would be a great option to have. Please include me in the drawing. Thanks! Hipockets
From the features listed up there, this software is a powerful recovery software. Let me join the draw, hopefully can get 1 of the license~
i would appreciate a license as well
This is an interesting program and would certainly be very helpful. Please include me in the drawing.
Good review. Looks like a solid program.
Why not ?
Thanks.
Count me in!
The review was decent.
I would love to try this S/W…seems very promising.
I sometimes delete wrong file in my computer. I really need this software.
Actually I don’t need it, but you can never know when a tool like this can turn useful.
Thank you
Nice review. Would like to get one. Thanks.
My shot
Me too!
Me too….
Count me in
This is the program that I want for long time ago. Please give me one!! Please!! Thank you
I recently had a problem and unfortunately lost 2 years of documents. A lot of which I would really like to recover. I have tried another product without success
Thank you
Sounds like a good piece of S/W to have in an emergency. Please enter my name for the draw. Thanks.
Count me in please!
Nice review. Count me in!
Please can I have this product license!!! I haven’t get here nothing yet!!!!
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Recovery Tools are always good and helpful.
This program looks nice and easy to use.
So it would be great to win a license.
i wish to get a license too.
Recovering My Files would be a nice thing., so provide me
Looks like a great program!
Please enter me in the drawing.
There’s been a number of times I could have used this software…..
Please count me in. Recently, I accidentally lost some of my important financial data files.
Thanks.
This is such a helpful tool. I hope to win a license for this.
Thank you.
I want this beautiful software.
Well, this is a nice & very useful giveaway – I’m in.
Count me in please.
hello ghacks, thanks for the great review & huge creds to getdata for lic´s!
i never had the need of restoring files from my drives “yet” – “keeping my fingers crossed”
im prepared in so many other aspects backing up my data & discmanagement, this application would be nice winning “just in case”
have a great day & merry christmas…
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trying my luck
i would like a license too….thank you for the giveaway..
Hi
Count me in :)
Interesting software … I will be very glad to get this license
Anyway … Thanks for this great giveaway.
Look great. i have not tried it yet but i’ll sure do. Thanks !
never tried this one. It almost makes you want to delete all your important files just to see how well it works.. thanks for the generous offer.
It’s a very nice review, but I find somethings missing. First of all, you could compare Recover My Files to other data recovery software. Secondly you could add some information about the detailed options that you can set in the program’s settings and add the information if it can automatically adjust those options according to the type of data loss (was it just deleted, the drive was formatted, and operating system was installed etc.). I’d also add the price of this application. The last thing I missed in your review was the information if the program will recover files that are of unknown type (sql for example).
But anyway keep up the good work :)
Can I try this one ?
I would love to try this S/W…seems very promising.
Data recovery could be useful for me!
I’d like to win a license.
This could be useful someday. I’ve read that this product is a good one.
This software seems very much more interesting than any other software of that kind I have already tested !
WOW ! I would like to win a free license of it !
Thank you, ghacks and GetData ! :-)
Awesome free stuff rules
It might be very useful ;-) Good luck everyone ;-P
It’s always nice to have a full version of recovery software.
seems like a great tool to have. would like to try it. Thanks =]
Very nice giveaway, Martin. GetData is one of those producers that offer software everyone should have *before* they need it. I’ve installed it on all the machines in my network. In the past year, I’ve only needed it once, but it saved me hours re-creating work that I hadn’t backed up yet. Highly recommended.
I would have had needed that app when i forgot to backup my system before install Windows 7…
Thanks for this giveaway
I need something to help when I goof up. Thanks
don’t forget me ;)
many thanks
I’d love to try this app.
I’ve had so, so luck trying to recover data before,
lost a 1gig drive with tons of video on them, and
was devastated.
I’d like to see how it handles a formatted drive, or
a drive that’s from a raid. I saw something in there
that mentioned raid data and image.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
I work in a large IT shop and have a lot of
co-workers ask about various programs to
do things. If this performs as well as it’s
described, I’d have no problems adding
this to the list of trusted programs that
I share with co-workers/remote techs, etc.
Not to mention forking over my hard earned
money to help support the product.
Thanks again.
XM
Data recovery is so important, so I would like to win a license.
I would test it! My data is wating for …
Sounds like a good piece of software. I’d love to have it!
That looks like an interesting piece of software. It sounds like a nice “Undo” after the “Oops”.
I need it juz in time…
I would like to have this s/w :-)
oh god!!!!! maybe i’m lucky this time!!!
I want one….select me.all the best everyone…good to keep for recovering deep hidden files
It’s so great. Please count me in.
Hello,please count me in as this is a must software for every person who lost a file !!!thanks
I reformatted a hdd with data that I would like to recover, I tried with different software but only Recover My Files Evaluation Version could do that. Unfortunately I couldn’t save them. So I would like to have this licence.
Love to have a free license, count me in please, thank you.
Thanks for a great opportunity
I needed this last week!!!
I’m hoping to win this.
Thank you for managing this great giveaway.
An excellent review as usual, I trust your words so I wouldn’t mind to win a copy:-)
Regards
Thanks for the giveaway!
Great review.
Would love to give it a try.
Thank you.
Count me in on the give away! Thanks!
Great review, I have used the trial version is the best software out there to recover lost files and I loved this software.
I wish to have a program full version.
Count me in too, I’d love to try it.
Good review Ghacks.. But I thnk it could have been better and more detailed as I think this is a KILLER soft! I have used a trial version before and like it very much..
Please count me in this giveaway..
I really need this program because I have many files that carelessly deleted by other users (multi-users in one PC). Especially important office documents and media files. I will be a big help for me if I get this one.
Thanks Ghacks!
I would like to receive the license because I like recovery programs like this one.
I would like to receive the license because I like recovery programs like this one.
why not me too :D
Absolutely would love to have this in my tool kit. Nice choice for a giveaway.
Punchy
Count me ,I need it please
thanks for the license
I often delete files ; this prog would surely help me.
CAn i have??
Looks to be useful!
License please….
-thanks
nice software. I need the licence..
You never know…
It looks like a great program. Sometimes my files go missing unexpectedly and this would be the solution. Thanks
I have tried Recover My Files before. I would like to win a license.
Thanks for this giveaway. Please pick me!
Würde mich schrecklich freuen, eine Lizens für diese wirklich großartige Applikation zu gewinnen.
a must have program. thanks a million
Great software! I want to win a licence of it!!
Thank you!!
This looks like a great program to have. Wishing that i win this program.
Do count me for this pls.I would like to have one license. Currently am using Pandoras recovery .Nice giveaway!
I’ll replace my DiskDigger with this one I am lucky enough to win the license. Thanks.
hi,
i have recently lost all my data from my system by accidental deletion and could not recover much after using many softwares..after going thro the review..i would definetely like to have this software and try to have something back..as it looks very reliable..
Thanks a lot..
i hope to win a license.
I am looking for a good file recovery software.
I would like to have one license.
Thanks.
nice program if I win it free
I’ve tried several file-recovery systems but without satisfactory results. I’d be most interested to try this one out with a free license.
Many thanks.
this is a great recovery software
I hope i win a license, thanks.
I want one… I want to compare this with Recuva..
Thank you for a chance to win this. Count me in.
Nice giveaway! I wanna try it.
Thanks.
Please sign me up for this drawing. I am always being called when disaster strikes friends’ computers. Thanx.
I will be very glad to get this license for free
Thank you very much
Tal
I used it for comparative studies but never had a genuine version to enforce the study.
Great software, count me in too.
Hi Martin.
Never used this one, but, since it sounds good, would like to take my chances.
Thanks,
26Dolphins
Thanks a lot for the much appreciated efforts. I am in (again) to try my fortune.
Accidents on pc happens and this offer is a must to have.
Seems to be must have one for everyone. I don’t want to miss too.
LOL! I hope I should win this, this time. I recently formatted my computer and would like to recover some of my files. Nice giveaway please. Good job.
Recover My Files is my favourite data recovery software though there are others multiple choices of freeware out there like Recuva. But my oipinion is none of them could replace Recover My files. I used to try to recover a few video files which I deleted accidentally using Recuva as recommended by my friends. Yes, Recuva did help me to search and recover the files out but the video files is unusable as Windows Media Player keep showing media unsupported,which it should be playable before being deleted. Guess what, I eventually used Recover My Files which successfully recover the files to its original state and playable by Windows Media Player. I would adore to have this software if possible. The most important thing is,it not only able toscan the files out but also able to recover it fully.Thank you.
Hi,
Another giveaway by Ghacks. Congratulation. A very handy and useful program i must say. Do count me in, Thanks
software great, i hope win a license.
as the features says, i know it is good one, it will be very useful to me,since i have lost some of my files by mistake, i am not really a computer expert,a normal user, i will be very grateful,if u can give me one key,merry christmas to you as well, thanks alot…..
I want to have a license, I hope to recover files that I deleted by mistake in the trash
I try different software, but didn’t give any results
please count me in
thank’s
Yep, count me in, as well.
Hi
Count me in :)
i need this sofware for recovery my data back
I would love to win a free license of this, with so much of important data on my notebook and being so irresponsible as I am, I badly need this!
thank you so much,very nice of you to give away licences..i would like to have one please.