Product Description

RecoverMyFiles is a powerful document recovery tool. It recovers deleted, lost and hidden Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher and Visio documents. The software is simple to use, thanks to its Wizard mode or a feature rich Advanced mode.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5126 in Software
• Brand: Channel Access, Inc.
• Model: RMF3EN
• Released on: 2005-03-17
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .38" h x 5.25" w x 7.50" l, .50 pounds

Features

• You must complete an Auto-run. Once complete the system will download the latest version which is Vista compatible.

Customer Reviews

LynnObie
I'm no IT pro but my experience was just the opposite from previous review: Long story short, I accidentally formatted a hard drive & lost everything. "Recover My Files" got back about 99% of what I lost. I tried it again on a digital camera flash card after I had intentionally erased it (files had been safely copied to my PC first). I was totally surprised at how many files were recovered from the "blank" flash card. I found it works better if you specify only a few file types per recovery such as .jpg, .doc, .xls, etc.

Recovered most files off crashed hard drive
I think this is an excellent product. My laptop hard drive crashed. I put it in a USB enclosure and bought RMF after reading reviews. It has a high rating, and I think it deserves it. I was able to recover most of my files off a drive with thousands of disk read errors.

A prior amazon review indicated that they got an old version from amazon.com and to pay more and get the most recent version. I was able to download the free upgrade to the latest version.

Because my hard drive had was bad, producing thousands of disk read errors, the recovery took a long time. It seams that each disk error has several seconds of retry. But stopping the scan after a sufficient amount of time, did cause the program to proceed. It would be nice if the delay (retry reads?) that occurs with each disk read error, could be reduced. I suspect that this is at a low level and may not be within RMFs control.

I was quite impressed that I was able to recover files off of this bad drive.

Recover My Files
I would have given this product a 5 star, however, the version that came from Amazon is an older version and when I ran it, it took 4 days instead of the 8 hours that it took me to run the latest version downloaded from the GetData website. I ended up returning it and downloaded the latest and it took me less because when I try to save, it took forever to do anything since it ate up all of my virtual memory from the machine.
To be fair, the latest version recovered all the files that I lost (I reformatted my HD accidently through recovering from a crash). I would still recommend it but I would get the latest even if you had to pay a little more.