Hello all
I am trying to recover data from the hard drives of about 15 identically configured PCs that got hit by the same virus. The files were all resident in the D drive( all drives were got their D partions deleted, system C: drive is fine) The important data that needs to be retrieved is mostly the usual office documents (mostly Docs, XLS, PSTs, PPTs, PICS). I have a few questions and notes:
1- Need a software that does this very reliably and easily. I would prefer a free solution. but a pay software is also fine if I will be getting much more recovery rate.
2- Is there an article that compares the features, reliability, of various recovery software. I need to know the real differences between whats available. I remember using ontrack easy recovery 6 or 7 years ago but im hoping to find free (or cheaper) better alternatives that are optimized at recovering as much as possible of the documents files
3- I think one of the users tried to recover his files (not sure what obscure software he used) and the kind of problems he ran into were: no file name of recovered files; low retrieval rate; damaged PST file (he got the header of the emails but not the body). Working but non-complete documents.
4- Having a way to simplify or automate the procedure for all the PCs would be nice. The Win7 PCs are part of the domain. But using a bootable USB or CD that does this for each PC is fine
5- Putting the recovered file on specific folders based on the extension would also be handy
I am trying to recover data from the hard drives of about 15 identically configured PCs that got hit by the same virus. The files were all resident in the D drive( all drives were got their D partions deleted, system C: drive is fine) The important data that needs to be retrieved is mostly the usual office documents (mostly Docs, XLS, PSTs, PPTs, PICS). I have a few questions and notes:
1- Need a software that does this very reliably and easily. I would prefer a free solution. but a pay software is also fine if I will be getting much more recovery rate.
2- Is there an article that compares the features, reliability, of various recovery software. I need to know the real differences between whats available. I remember using ontrack easy recovery 6 or 7 years ago but im hoping to find free (or cheaper) better alternatives that are optimized at recovering as much as possible of the documents files
3- I think one of the users tried to recover his files (not sure what obscure software he used) and the kind of problems he ran into were: no file name of recovered files; low retrieval rate; damaged PST file (he got the header of the emails but not the body). Working but non-complete documents.
4- Having a way to simplify or automate the procedure for all the PCs would be nice. The Win7 PCs are part of the domain. But using a bootable USB or CD that does this for each PC is fine
5- Putting the recovered file on specific folders based on the extension would also be handy
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