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MiniTool® Power Data Recovery 6.6

MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a professional data recovery software for windows, recovering data from formatted, deleted and damaged partition attributing to hard drive corruption, virus infection, unexpected system shutdowm or software failure and supporting IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB hard disk, memory card, USB flash drive, iPod,
CD/DVD, Blue-Ray Disk.

Data recovery software reviews

In order to gain a better understanding of data recovery knowledge, I have enquired many materials on data recovery software. To sum up, these materials suggest that most data recovery software possess the same function with few differences. Some were developed to direct at one certain data loss circumstance, which in my point of view is a waste of resource. All those functions can be integrated into one data recovery software just like MiniTool Power Data Recovery which impressed me the most by recovering data under diverse data loss scenarios with comprehensive functions. Moreover, it is totally free of charge.

Techniques for data recovery
1. Unnecessary of full scan
There is no need for user to full scan all clusters on the entire partition to merely search accidentally deleted files no matter what data recovery software whether possessing quick scan method or not to be used. When deleting files, operating system will merely mark the directory structure. Any data recovery software will firstly read directory structure information before scan and search deleted files in compliance with deleting mark. Therefore, user could interrupt cluster scanning process manually after data recovery software has read partition directory structure information to slash plenty of time to search deleted files.

2. Adopt NTFS partition as much as possible
MFT of NTFS is stored on hard disk in file form. That's why EasyRecovery and Recovery4all enjoy such high speed when full scanning NTFS partition. In fact, those data recovery software don't really perform cluster scan but list partition file information according to MFT information to out weigh other data recovery software at scanning speed which scans NTFS partition cluster one by one. Nevertheless, this method is incredibly efficient to scan NTFS partition which has well over safety performance than FAT.

3. skillfully set cluster scanning range
Setting cluster scanning range serves as an efficient means to accelerate scanning speed. Default scanning method of MiniTool Power Data Recovery allows user to set cluster scanning range to cut down scanning time. Certainly, some techniques are required to judge locations of files on hard disk.

To sum up, MiniTool Power Data Recovery possesses all above-mentioned functions to be the representative product of data recovery software. On the basis of customer first principle, MiniTool Solution Ltd. has developed MiniTool Power Data Recovery for user freely with powerful functions. User may download MiniTool Power Data Recovery at MiniTool Power Data Recovery Download Center.



After running MiniTool Power Data Recovery, user would see five modules in the main interface:
  • Undelete Recovery
    This module is to recover deleted data, for example, the deleted data is usually stored in recycle bin, in case recycle bin is emptied, user should adopt this module to recover lost data.
  • Damaged Partition Recovery
    This module could perform full scan to partition. In case partition is formatted, or system is reinstalled, user should employ this module to recover lost data.
  • Lost Partition Recovery
    This module is to recover lost partition, such as deleted partition or crashed partition
  • Digital Media Recovery
    This module is to perform digital media recovery, mainly directing at video or audio data, such as JPG, GIF, PNG, MP3, WMA, MP4, AVI and ASF, etc.
  • CD/DVD Disk
    This module is to recover lost data from CD/DVD supporting DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, HD-DVD-R, HD-DVD-RW, BD-R and BD-RE.



Here, I would like to demonstrate user the "Digital Media Recovery" function. In the interface above, MiniTool Power Data Recovery has listed all partitions searched. The "Advanced Setting" button on the right is for filtering desired files.



This interface displays all files types for filtering. User should check desired file types, JPGE for example, and then click "OK".



After setting, please select "Full Scan" after which MiniTool Power Data Recovery will automatically scan partition data.



Accrediting to "Advanced Setting" function, only JPG photo will be listed after scan to save plenty of time and facilitate user of searching desired data. Lastly, user should merely choose files to be recovered to call an end of data recovery. Above is a simple introduction to powerful functions of MiniTool Power Data Recovery. For more information, please go to the official website http://www.powerdatarecovery.com.
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