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Recover Accidentally Deleted Files With Active@ File Recovery

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Whenever one deleted a file it is sent to Recycle bin. Recycle bin from where it can be easily restored But what if you delete it from recycle bin also and what to recover it?? Or you are one of those lazy people like me who just press shift+delete key to permanently delete the file Active@ File Recovery comes handy at that time. It can recover accidentally deleted files. Files that have been damaged due to formatting or virus attacks etc. It can also recover lost partitions.But how a file deleted can be recovered? From Wikipeida

When a file is deleted, its directory entry remains stored on the disk, slightly renamed in a way that marks the entry as available for use by newly created files thereafter. Most of its name, its time stamp, file length and — most importantly - starting location on the disk, remains unchanged in the directory entry. The list of disk sectors (clusters, to be more specific) occupied by the file will be erased , however, marking those sectors available for use by other files created or modified thereafter.

When an undeletion attempt is made, the following conditions must be met for a successful recovery of the file:

  • The entry of the deleted file must still exist in the directory, meaning that it must not yet be overwritten by a new file (or folder) that has been created in the same directory. Whether this is the case can fairly easily be detected by checking whether the remaining name of the file to be undeleted is still present in the directory.
  • The sectors formerly used by the deleted file must not be overwritten yet by other files. This can fairly well be verified by checking that the sectors are not marked as used in the File Allocation Table. However, if, in the meantime, a new file had been written to, using those sectors, and then deleted again, freeing those sectors again, this can not be detected automatically by the undeletion program. This means that an undeletion operation, even if appearing successful, might fail because the recovered file contains different data.
  • The file must not have been fragmented, meaning that the sectors its data occupied on the disk must have all been in one uninterrupted sequence. Whether this was the case or not may or may not be detectable by the undeletion program (it depends on the arrangement of other files on the disk).

If the undeletion program can not detect clear signs of the above requirements not being met, it will restore the directory entry as being in use and mark all consecutive sectors (clusters), beginning with the one as recorded in the old directory entry, as used in the File Allocation Table. It is then up to the user to open the recovered file and to verify that it really still contains the complete data of the formerly deleted file.

If the data of the recovered file is not correct, parts of the file may still be stored in other sectors of the disk, but recovery of those is not possible by automatic processes but only by manual examination of each (unused) block of the disk. This is, however, usually hardly feasible and can only be performed by specialists that have very good knowledge of both the disk structure and the data being searched.

So if your file meets the following requirements it is possible to recover it Hurray!!! \:D/

I downloaded and used the Demo version of the software and here is what i felt about it.

Installation was a breeze and within seconds could be used the Active@ File Recovery.

The interface is divided into 3 parts and looks like windows explorer.

  1. The first part shows the hierarchy of the local system devices listing all partitions and optical drives.
  2. The second column shows your Optical Drive, Floppy drive and Hard Disk Drive without partitions
  3. The third column shows Events its date and some text related to it.

Their are two ways to recover files viz.

  1. Active File Recovery - Quick ScanQuick Scan: This option quickly scans your hard drive partitions fore deleted files and folders. When I scanned my partitions which are each ~20gb it took me less than a minute to scan each partition. Pretty fast indeed.
  2. Active File Recovery - Super ScanSuper Scan: Super Scan can be used to recover deleted or damaged partition or logical drive. Super Scan reads each disk sector and looks for not only the boot sector, but also tries to reconstruct the drive structure, based on residual clues to the drive’s system structures that remain on the disk surface. This is a very slow process and it usually gives much better results than QuickScan. When Super Scanfinds data and the deleted or damaged file or folder is not fragmented, the SuperScan process can detect files by matching template patterns to the found data.
  3. RAID Reassembly: RAID ( Redundant Array of Independent Disks) can fail due to many reasons. More on RAID and its failure here. One can combine together a disk that was previously used as a part of a RAID system in a temporal (virtual) disk array. With this virtual configuration, one is able to perform all drive file recovery manipulations as though it is regular drive. This is a really good feature of the software.

Another feature to mention about is Creating a Disk Image. This could help you to recover files at some other time or if something wrong happens while recovering the files which make you lose the contents of the file being recover.

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For: Offers a variety of features, really fast scanning.

Against: Paid considering there are lots free softwares, Demo version limits file recovery to 65KB

Our Verdict: Active@ File Recovery has lots of features and is great if you intend to use it for your company/organisation so that you can recover those important documents & also they have a customer service helpline.But if you intend to recover files that are not so important and for home use you can try free alternatives.

Active@ File Recovery for windows has the following versions viz.

  1. Demo
  2. Stabdard
  3. Professional
  4. Enterprise

A Tabular Information about it has been given beneath :-

Active@ File Recovery for Windows - Data Recovery Software

Types of packages

DEMO

Standard

Professional

Enterprise
 

DOWNLOAD

BUY

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Limitations

        

Maximum limit for file size to be able to recover

65 kb

No limit

No limit

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Recovers Deleted Partitions. FAT, FAT32, and NTFS Partitions

    

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Includes Active@ Partition Recovery for Windows utility to restore data

    

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Windows CD/DVD-ROM Boot Disk

        

Includes downloadable Bootable Windows CD-ROM ISO image for recovery of files and partitions from Windows environment when machine does not boot

      

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Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, NTFS+EFS file systems

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Designed for Windows 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / XP Professional x64/ XP Home x64 / 2003 Server x64 / Vista

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Supports IDE / ATA / SCSI drives

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Supports all types of Flash Memory Cards

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Supports advanced search of deleted files

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Supports localized and long filenames

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Supports compressed, encrypted and fragmented files on NTFS

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Active@ Scan technology allows you to recognize files based on file signatures for the following file types:

Word Documents (*.DOC)
Excel Spreadsheets ( *.XLS)
Excel 2007 Spreadsheets (*.XLSX)
Outlook Data Archives (*.PST)
Word 2007 Documents (*.DOCX)
JPEG Images (*.JPG)
Bitmap Images (*.BMP)
Corel Draw Files (*.CDR)
Canon Raw Images (*.CRW;*.CR2)
Nikon Raw Images (*.NEF)
TIF/TIFF Images (*.TIF)		 Crystal Reports (*.RPT)
Visio Diagrams (*.VSD)
PowerPoint Presentations (*.PPT)
PowerPoint 2007 Presentations (*.PPTX)
AVI Files (*.AVI)
WAV Files (*.WAV)
MPG/MPEG Files (*.MPG)
ANI Files (*.ANI)
Zip Archives (*.ZIP)
QuickBooks Files (*.QBW)
Access Databases (*.MDB;*.SDW)
       
         

Recovers deleted files from damaged, formatted, reformatted, or deleted partitions. (FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions)

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Two types of scan: QuickScan (Fast) and SuperScan (Slow)

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Extended scan detects deleted primary partitions and logical drives

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Scans partitions damaged by virus or with damaged MBR

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Recovered files and folders can be saved on any local or network drives

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Supports Disk Images Reservation - for backup purposes

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Creates Disk Image for logical and physical drives

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Opens Disk Image and recovers files from it as from regular drive

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Disk Image is created in raw format that is compatible with other utilities

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Supports Hardware RAID Arrays and Software RAID Volumes

        

Virtually rebuilds damaged RAID 0 - RAID 5 Arrays. RAID data recovery

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Very Compact Utility. Chances for data overwriting during installation are minimal

 

      

Can be installed onto the floppy

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Can be copied and run from floppy even without installation

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Ability to preview file contents before recovery

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Visible representation of file or folder recoverability

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User Interface Features

        

Easy to use MS Explorer style user interface

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Event log is displayed and can be saved

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Supports Drag & Drop for single and multiple deleted files recovery

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Complete interactive help file includes How to and Recovery Concepts sections

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Disclamer: The Preceding post is a paid review. I just looked and used the features and wrote about it. I don’t take guarantee of the product/service. If you don’t like it please leave a comment.

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1 Comment  | Posted by : Ashish Maheshwari
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Ramzan from www.OpenSoftReview.com says...

wow..amazing review guys.

can i know how its different from Recuva? Recuva is free…

Posted on: 14/Jul/2008@6:38 am

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