[Review] MiniTool® Power Data Recovery

 

As well known, if you lost a file because of a system crash or because you pressed Delete after selecting a collection of files, all you could do was regret. And today, it seems technology has opened all the doors for us. As the days pass by data recovery technologies only bring new surprises for us. And data recovery software is capable of doing this. In this post we are going to introduce the free file recovery program MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition can help us recover deleted files and recover file from deleted, lost, damaged and RAW but existing partitions, these are just basic recovery capabilities, and it is the following features that make Power Data Recovery Free Edition outstanding: It can recover deleted data from the Windows Recycle Bin, restore lost data, even if the partition is formatted or deleted, restore data from a corrupted hard drive, virus infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure. Each data recovery module focuses on a different data loss scenario.

Feature

- Undelete Recovery

It is recommended for user to try out the free edition of these applications, give it a test and if it works, spend the bucks on it. It's this fear which people find a hard nut to crack – fear or investing the bucks into nothing.

Undelete Recovery module supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS file systems. It also supports hard disks, flash drives, memory sticks, memory cards and flash cards. To recover deleted files from CD/DVD disks, please use the CD/DVD Recovery module.

The very first glance at the software's face, you find five options to let you get your precious back – five methods or let's say, modules that claim to manage the job well. Apart from that, you see a few useful links and a button for tech support.

- Damaged Partition Recovery

If you're a moderate user  you'd know what formatting a partition means. It just wipes out every chunk of data on that partition, isn't it? Power Data Recovery's damaged partition recovery, which it boasts to be its most powerful weapon to deploy can help you recover lost data from damaged hard drives. It works on formatted ones too

In case you want to know what and how to do to recover files from damaged hard drives using this module, logon to Power Data Recovery's official website and you'll find a easy-to-understand guide on it.

- Lost Partition Recovery

Now in case you have lost data because your partition was deleted or lost, you can use this module. In most cases a quick scan must be able to detect lost partitions, but if it fails, the MiniTool Power Data Recovery's full scan engine in all probability should detect the partition. Once detected, you can do the rest There are two scan engines it uses to recover data from corrupted MBR, repartitioned disk or crashed HDD – quick scan and full scan.

- Digital Media Recovery

Now this recovery module is nothing but a module that specializes in recovering only digital media. There's a whole set of formats (of which there's a list on Power Data Recovery's official website) for media files and in case you've lost your media, this should be your first choice. This is because it only focuses on that list. It ignores the rest of the files it discovers. Doesn't matter, really! If you're lucky enough, you'll be able to recover even after you formatted your memory card. It can recover your media from flash drives, MP3 players, digital cameras, video cameras, memory chips and even your iPod. And you don't have to hesitate just because you already formatted the drive you want to recover from.

If you want to check whether it's actually working, whether it's able to recover the file just as it was before the loss happened, you can click on 'File Preview'.

This module is there to help you recover data from CDs and DVD disks. As a matter of fact, after USB flash drives came into use, nobody wanted to have tens of rewritable disks. But still, there can always be accidents you wished never happened.

The one thing we did like quite a bit about Power Data Recovery apart from the very product was the detailed guides and FAQs on their website. In any situation you find a trouble, all you have to do is to look up to their website and you should be lucky enough to find help. 

As long as you recover data within 1GB and Windows can boot normally, MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition is a good choice. If Windows can not boot, use Power Data Recovery Free Edition Boot Disk to see whether you can find desired files. 

Please visit the official home page for more information and download of the product here.