Pandora Recovery isn't the only free file recovery utility around. But it does have an extraordinarily easy to use interface. When you launch Pandora Recovery, you'll be greeted with a helpful wizard that asks if you want to browse your hard drives, search for files or file types, or perform a deep scan of your drive for files.
There's also a portable version of the application which can be run from a removable flash drive. But Pandora Mobile Recovery isn't free. It's part of the Pandora PowerPack, which costs $20.
[via The Portable Freeware Collection]
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4-09-2008 @ 1:16PM
Jason said...
Recuva is free, does the same thing, and is also free to run from a USB stick. So...what's Pandora for, again?
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4-09-2008 @ 2:01PM
iceman7 said...
The same reason there are numerous companies making antivirus products, firewalls, registry tools, media players, cd burning software, browsers, bittorrent clients, p2p software, photo editors and viewers, communication tools, email clients etc etc etc.
...the same reason we have a windows, osx and linux.... the same reason i choose to wear blue underwear on mondays and tighty whities on tuesdays...
4-09-2008 @ 2:03PM
Jason said...
That's a lot of typing just to miss the point.
Recuva does everything Pandora does, plus the portable version is free also, whereas it's stated here that Pandora's portable flavor is not. Hence, I don't see any reason to use Pandora.
All of your comparisons are flawed, as you're assuming Pandora = Recuva. Last time I checked, free > cost.
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4-09-2008 @ 2:20PM
Peter said...
Jason - You're assuming free always means better. Some software (not necessarily this one) is worth paying for.
There's nothing wrong with multiple products and competition. Some compete on price, some on features. Competition encourages everyone to improve.
4-09-2008 @ 2:26PM
Jason said...
I don't disagree with anything you say.
Anyone reading the Pandora post may like to know about Recuva as a free alternative, so there I went.
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4-09-2008 @ 9:35PM
kodea said...
i have recuva for years on hd and now i also have pandora, whats the problem?
4-10-2008 @ 7:56AM
Moshe said...
Recently I managed to delete all my pics and vids (3 years worth of that stuff) - this includes my kids photos and videos - due an unfortunate occurence my second backup was deleted the day before (I know, I know - it's all my fault).
Anyway, I tried Recuva and it found nothing (it found some things but only about 20 of thousands of images). I then used a more pricey product (i.e. not free) - I won't name it here so you don't think that I'm promoting anything - but as you can understand it found and restored ALL of them (as far as I can tell) - the funny thing was it managed to find apparently several layers of data - so it offered to restore more GB than were available on the drive...
Anyway - my sanity was restored for $40 - and it was the best $40 I have spent in a long time.
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5-12-2008 @ 3:25PM
misty606 said...
I would really like to know the product that you paid for Moshe and whether you know if it would work on a memory card. I recently got home from a trip to find that the only copy of our trip pics was a cd we mailed home and was cracked in the mail. We deleted the pics from the memory card when we put them onto the disc (I know this wasn't the smartest of moves) to make room for more pictures as we travelled. We filled the memory card and deleted it a second time. It seems that most recovery programs will only go back one delete. Does anyone know how we might recover these files now?
4-10-2008 @ 7:59AM
Oppo said...
Price is not the only only consideration here. You also need to take into account the effectiveness in data recovery. Some benchmarking of the different programs would be very interesting and useful.
Oppo
http://www.dragonlasers.com
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4-10-2008 @ 1:06PM
map said...
My company uses websense to filter bad site and it paged/categorised the pandora site as "keylogger". can anyone check and let me know if websense is wrong or the product is fishy?
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