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Restoration

Version: 3.2.13

Downloads Count: 605,272

License Type: Free

Price: Free

Date Added: Jun 6, 2006

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me

File Size: 163 KB

Author: Brian Kato

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Editorial Review of Restoration

We've all done it: accidentally deleted a vital file a few minutes before an urgent deadline--and then couldn't find it in the Recycle Bin. Fortunately, there's no need to panic, yet.

Restoration is a free program that can scan your hard drive, floppy diskette or USB thumb drive and find files that have been deleted (Windows doesn't actually destroy files that you delete: it just marks the space they occupy as being available). It can then recover any recently deleted files it finds with a single mouse click.

You can filter the results if you know the name of the file you are looking for, which is much easier than wading through the list of the hundreds of deleted files it usually finds (including temporary files, cached Web files, etc).

Restoration doesn't need to be installed to work. Just keep the program on a floppy or an optical disc and pop it into the drive and run it when you need it (This approach also prevents your accidentally overwriting the deleted file). Although the program has not been updated since 2004, it still worked well in my informal tests and it recovered several files that I had deleted without problems.

--Richard Baguley

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Reviewed by: illegalvirus

12-30-2008

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: Free, easy to use.

Weaknesses: It froze everytime at 29% so I was not able to fully restore the entire folder.

Overall Evaluation: No one else seems to have this problem luckily. But it was disappointing.
Reviewed by: eotw

04-04-2008

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: Performed as advertised

Weaknesses: did not find any in the one time I used it

Overall Evaluation: Mind you, I only used it once to recover only 1 file but it was from a flash drive and thought it was gone forever. This program was easy to use and found the file without a hitch. I would recommend this to others.
Reviewed by: edalgaard

04-02-2008

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: This program did exactly what it said it would - I had deleted some .wav files by accident, and it found every one of them and restored them perfectly. Very much appreciated. It's compact, fast, and free. What more could you ask for?

Weaknesses: None

Overall Evaluation: Great product. Would recommend to anyone.
Reviewed by: guitardude

02-20-2008

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: No install. runs from usb drive. quick.

Weaknesses: Tested it by deleting a random picture from the recycle bin and then immediately trying to find it with this program to no avail.

Overall Evaluation: I then did a search for all deleted files and it turned up a good list but nothing I really needed. I will have to try this program when I am asked to do a recovery project for someone. I also just noticed that Vista is not included in the supported OS list. That might be why it didnt work exactly like i wanted but I would think a program that doesnt have to be installed would not have any problems with different Windows OSs.
Reviewed by: chuckchuck

02-18-2008

Duration of ownership: 5 Years

Strengths: The program is small, self-contained, and efficient - plus it's free!

Weaknesses: for free . . . none.

Overall Evaluation: I've been using this freeware gem since late 2002. It's great for finding lost programs and allowing you to copy them to other sources. It's also good at wiping "unused" file space (click OTHERS, DELETE COMPLETELY). Again, for free, this little proggy has weak competition.
Reviewed by: whfairchilds

01-27-2008

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: It appears to function as claimed

Weaknesses: Needs to be a completed program

Overall Evaluation: This is a good concept, the only problem is; once it shows you what has been erased, all you can do is copy it to another place. There is not {as I can find} any program you can use to open and /or view what you find. Nor can you delete anything as claimed. Keep working on it, send an update when it works completely.

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