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Will not recover image files

by ftwalways Oct 06, 2011 (Read all my 2 reviews)

As indicated by a previous reviewer the program is very slow compared to competitors and unlike competitors does not recover image files which are blank. Difficulty may also be experienced recovering document files.

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Saved my life

by Woobie Mar 10, 2010

I had hundreds of pictures stored on an external hard drive that crashed before I could back it up. It would have been a disaster but this program recovered about 98% of them. Huge relief. If you use it please make sure to leave them a donation. They earned it.

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Does the job!

by Lisa2009 Nov 17, 2009

I am SO grateful that someone recommended this program when I accidentally "moved" rather than "copied" files from a flash drive and thought I'd lost them. I'm not a tech person, but was able to figure out how to use this program, and while it wasn't a straight "copy and paste" to my hard drive - which may have been due to my lack of understanding - was able to work it out and recover everything. Thank you so much, Snapfiles, for providing this freeware! It, and your service, is much, much appreciated, thank you!

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Best program ever!

by issa02468 May 07, 2009

This program was amazing! I had `lost` all of my cell phone pictures that were backed up to my SD card and this program found them! They were pictures I could have never gotten back! It made me the happiest person EVER to get these pictures back.

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One of two

by gimpguy Sep 20, 2008 (Read all my 1159 reviews)

This is one of two of my favs. It does what it says, recovers files and does it well. Delete something and now wish you hadn't? Well I think we all have and a tool like this may be free but still pricele$$. A must have in my opinion. It's easy to understand and use, very fast and recovers well. Great work on this one!

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Not sure why this is so popular

by Ipatronius Jun 01, 2008

I thought this was great at first - took 4-6 hours to scan a 160gb disk, which is OK if it finds all the files, and it did find most that had been deleted (by stinking Microsoft). The problem is that you have to sit there and acknowledge every file that it can't recover. Ties you up for hours and hours. But the real problem for me was that it kept locking up. Had to CTL-ALT-DEL, then had to rescan all over again - another 4-6 hours. I'm 2 days into this now and have only recovered a fraction of my files.

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For free it's excellent

by comicfan Apr 27, 2008 (Read all my 5 reviews)

I used this not too long ago, about 15 min ago on a drive that was a storage drive only, but had, ME, XPpro and Ubuntu on it prior. Then, I reinstalled an OS to it, deleted it, now put back to storage. I didn't think PCIFR would find anything yet, IT DID. Very surprised, very shocked, very happy. Tried many others, blah. Use this one, it's the best free file recover I have used.

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Work by halves

by Leongeo Dec 10, 2007

Yes, It`s really easy to use and can find all my deleted files, some of which I even forgot when I deleted them. But when try to re-save them onto another disk, there is nothing in the photo files and only recognized code in the office files. Did I miss some work?

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Works with vista (sd card)

by BigJohn Jul 17, 2007

Shortly after a family reunion, I intended to move my photos onto my laptop. When I realized files were being deleted, I stopped it (but not before over 40 photos were deleted). I decided to try this program even though it is NOT listed as compatible with Vista. The interface was a little confusing at first, but it worked great. All photos were recovered. Great little program!

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Unbelievable results

by ignatios Jun 08, 2007

Such a good utility for recovering up of my accidentally deleted files. the interface though should be better. nevertheless this is not the angle of being a rather good and optimized tool. good work guys, much much better than lots of others.

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80gig / 8 partitions saved!

by highlander Nov 18, 2006

I run a overclocked box with 5 drives/6 fans (160GB, 3x80GB, and a 10GB). 2 drives: NTFS -single partition each; 3 drives: FAT32 - 2 to 8 partitions each. PC has 3 OS's (98SE, 2000, XP) for computer programming purposes (C/C++, VB6, VB.NET 2005, C#.NET 2005, Assembly Language, Win32 API, SQL, MSDE, MySQL5, SQLite3, postgresql, etc) and multitrack audio recording/mixing/mastering. An 80GB FAT32 drive, with 8 partitions, developed a bit of a corruption problem. Program worked great for saving data with multiple issues: cross-linked clusters, cyclic redundancy issues, and lost both FAT32 tables on 1 of these partitions). Seems to do actually do what it says it will do (I tend to be an extremely skeptical programmer). Could've written my own in C/C++ and Assembly, but with several programming projects I didn't have time for a drawn out headache. Interface isn't greatest, but it does what it says it will do. ALL data recovered - kewl program.

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Recovered from flash memory

by fotosel Nov 17, 2006 (Read all my 8 reviews)

Recovered accidentally deleted photo from SD card. some other files it recovered looked corrupt, this was because they had already been partially overwritten. very useful software.

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Saved the day!

by sheltered Oct 20, 2006

We had a family tragedy (a pet cat was put to sleep) and my distraught kids had one last visit to see their buddy. My wife and I were frantically taking photos and deleting old pictures and the camera's battery died causing the SD card to error out. PC Inspector opened it up and restored probably 90% of the files. The pit of my stomach is no longer in my throat! My kids have at least a few more lasting memories of their beloved cat! Thanks!

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A very good utility

by HankManz Jul 28, 2006

Although the interface is not as intuitive as some and it seems to be slower than many, the results appear to be much better than many of the commercial products on the market. With it I was able to recover several files from a bad floppy disk. While working on the problem, I tested five commercial programs costing $25-$50. Only one of the commercial programs worked at all on this floppy and it recovered just one additional file.

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Recovered some files...

by kenjanball Jun 21, 2006 (Read all my 2 reviews)

PC Inspector is a pretty good utility that could be just what you need. My friend's hard drive crashed and she hadn't backed it up like she should have. I tried this utility first and was able to recover about 250 pictures (out of around 3000). Still it gave me hope that the files weren't lost. The interface is not very user friendly and I wish it had a search feature for particular file types. It locked up on me once and gave me an error once (out of using it 3 times). It takes a long time to run. Recovered files are bigger than the original file size, which takes up a lot of space. Still, it's free and the hard work in developing it shows. Try it, you probably don't have anything else to loose if you're looking at recovery tools.

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Great software!

by archenemy Apr 30, 2006

After an accidental disk format, this wonderful program saved a lot of pictures and data. I want to thank to the developers their work with this useful and FREE tool.

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Recovers deleted photos from cam memory chip

by marsh_0x Feb 26, 2006 (Read all my 3 reviews)

Yep, tested and did recovery all 37 erased photos. And Freeware. Marsh

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Geek squad approved!

by Lostcause64 Feb 01, 2006

Under the category of 'For what it's worth', I'm giving it my Geek Squad seal of approval. I had a notebook return from one of our service centers for hinge replacement, but for some reason it had been restored to factory settings. Obviously, the customer was very upset, so I offered to do what I could to retrieve her data. After seeing all of the reviews in favor of this program, I gave it a shot. In about 90 minutes, I had recovered 36GB of data, which I migrated to one of our network PC's from within the program, better than half of which was usable, including nearly all of the family photos that were lost! It's not the most user friendly program I've seen, but I was able to get thru it pretty well. Since the restore that was done was probably just a 'soft or quick' restore, without seriously formating the HD, I'm sure that helped, but I've got to give serious kudos to the creators of this software... Great Job!!

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A true bliss

by LeoHald Dec 26, 2005

Saved my day after accidentally deleting some invaluable files on a XP PC. Downloaded it, installed it and undeleted a few hundred files flawlessly within ten minutes. The interface is not typically MS-like, but if you just take time to read the instructions as you go along, it's impossible not to succeed. My highest recommendations!

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Recovered cf card data from nikon coolpix

by Louie921 Dec 03, 2005

This isn't the software they specify for digital camera media, but I used it anyway, then I used their media recovery sofware 'smart recovery' I liked this one better because it keeps the original picture numbers, so you can confirm that you got all the pics you're looking for. Very excellent, about 90%+ of the Stones concert recovered.

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Very useful, great value

by colm_fitz Nov 18, 2005

I had trouble with a memory stick which was no longer being recognized by Windows or Mac OS after a crash involving a pdf file on the memory stick. Retrieved all the files I required with very little hassle and no corruption (I think). A little difficult to use, but it does its job very well and its free! Ideal for the small mishaps with data.

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Based on another program but good.

by peanutbutter Nov 10, 2005 (Read all my 2 reviews)

This program was based on another program that was still in betas when it died (person stoped working on it) so i think for a program that should be beta is is pretty good.

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Pc inspector works!

by guy9663 Oct 11, 2005 (Read all my 7 reviews)

This is great freeware. I have just used it on a 10GB hard drive and recovered about 90% (5.2GB) of the data on the drive. Big deal, it takes a bit of time, but you are recovering lost data for free. If you bother to learn about the interface (which is not the best) and the features, most users should be fine. PC Inspector will do as good a job as anything else out there. It's FREEWARE, enjoy.

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Very good one

by lotron Oct 04, 2005 (Read all my 2 reviews)

For me It is standard program installed on new PC. In a few occasions I had problems running this program, but if it works (it is most frequent case) it works great! Reviews in PC magazines shows only one "disadvantage" to other (inclusive commercial!!!) products - it is slow. BUT!!! It founds almost everything. Personally, I'll wait with pleasure, if there is real chance to get my data back. There is GREAT chance! One remark: Some users reports, that recovered files were bad. It is possible, if records about allocated file space were damaged. I that case ANY soft must something assume, I. E. that sectors are in sequence. It is true for files, that are not fragmented. So, until is Your disk GOOD, defragment it regularly.

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First time...

by GrantP Sep 13, 2005

.....lost some data on a floppy disk, file appeared deleted - PC Inspector got it all back - very impressive, very pleased and thank you.....

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Recovered, but incomplete

by jerryhung Sep 04, 2005

It recovered my 2.26GB folder (shift-deleted) fine, but turned out some files inside are corrupted and cannot be played (RMVB). Oh well, I can live with it, but surprised that it recovered incompletely. But for a freeware, I think it's amazing and I believe it can recover lots of stuff

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Used for xp recycle bin recovery

by jackfig Aug 29, 2005

The interface was passable. The tech writing for the instructions was pretty limp (not written by fluent English speakers?); they didn't even tell you what the colors of the folders meant (between the yellow and green). It would freeze every time after a recovery attempt and I'd have to use task manager to shut it down. However, it did retrieve some mp3 files for me (not all of them, unfortunately, and it would only give me an error message for those I couldn't retrieve that just said there was a "violation"). So, I wouldn't pay for this application, but if you want to experiment and don't want to cough up the cash, this is your kinda software!!

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High my credit

by HodiaZacharia Jun 29, 2005

2 days ago i have boss that very dissapointed because his data on his external hard disk, 150GB Seagate external hard disk, has lost. It happend when he shutdown the disk without umount first from his e-Mac, so when he plug to PC or Mac again it said "Unformatted", but the data he sured still on it. 2 days i looked on internet is there a conclusion or not, not found it, then I went to webattack, like I always do, and found this software, i gave him, and he glad... thanks a lot this software really useful specially not big, not harm or bother other applications, and the most is FREE :)

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