You will be asked to select a location where you want to put the files, after the files will be saved. When you find the files you want to recover (you can recover multiple files at once if you wish), check their respective checkboxes and click on “Save Files”.
The deleted and lost files are mixed in with existing files. If you look closer you will notice iCDRS is displaying already existing files all the files iCDRS has “found” are not deleted or lost files but rather most of them actually are files that already exist. Wow, look how many files iCDRS found! It must be a great program, right? Wrong. Once the file tree is built, you are shown the files iCDRS found: For a 10 GB partition it took iCDRS less than one minute to build the file tree. How long it takes to build the file tree(s) depends on how large the partition(s) was that you picked. Once you pick the partition(s) you want to scan, iCDRS builds the file tree(s): (This is why I said earlier iCDRS’ “partition” recovery is more file recovery than partition recovery further proof for my statement will be shown below when the other file recovery features behave the exact same as this “partition” recovery feature.) You can pick up to three partitions to search at one time. Rather, you are given the option to recover the files that are within that partition. When selecting partitions, take note that the partitions itself is not recovered. Once the scan is finished, iCDRS displays the partitions it has found: For a 150 GB hard drive, iCDRS was asking me to give it about an hour to conduct the scan. How long iCDRS takes to scan depends on how large your device is. Once you pick a device to scan iCDRS starts scanning the device: Take note that for your computer, you can only pick whole hard drives in this mode – you cannot pick particular partitions to scan. To use “Lost Partition Recovery” you must first pick a device to scan: This is what iCare Data Recovery Software’s main program window looks like:Īs you can see you are given the choice of choosing four “recovery modes”: Right now you may think what I am saying makes no sense but you will understand why I say this after you have read this whole review. I put partition recovery in quotes because the partition recovery features of iCDRS (iCare Data Recovery Software) really aren’t partition recovery features they are better described as file recovery features renamed and called partition recovery.
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ICare Data Recovery Software is a program that allows users to perform file/”partition” recovery. I believe $20-30 is a much more fair price. iCare Data Recovery Software doesn’t have any unique features that make it stand out nor is its performance good enough to justify a $69.95 tag. Asking $69.95 for this program is way too much.