MikeR, Quite right and in addition to all that one should not even download the recovery program on the system to have files recovered from since there will be additional writes to the drive to simply download the file, let alone extract it if it's zipped and installing it which will involve writes to the users temporary folder as well as the installation writes propper. I can't find any reference to a portable version on Aiseesoft's website so have no encouragement to go anywhere near this giveaway. I do know that where any recovery software is concerned, it (a) isn't guaranteed to work (b) should never be installed on the same drive from which it's hoped to retrieve data and (c) there's a ton of recovery software out there available at no cost whatsoever, amongst them, Piiriform's Recuva, available in a portable version which means it doesn't need installing and thus, doesn't write anything to the HDD. I don't know if the "famous editors" mentioned on the Aiseesoft website as having favourably reviewed this software have the faintest clue about data recovery or are merely famous because, er, Aiseesoft says they are.
Either that's rank stupidity on the part of a developer pretending to know what it's doing, or couldn't-care-less.įact is, if you've lost some precious files from your PC the very last thing you should be doing is installing anything at all on that same drive because of the risk of that installation writing itself over the very data you're trying to get back. I'm always baffled by software developers who claim to be the absolute best at data recovery but then require the PC user to install their software on the same hard drive from which data is to be retrieved.
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