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Friday, December 02, 2011
Improper Eject of Flash Drive
I go out of my way to always do a proper eject of the flash drive, to the point that I will do a shutdown if for whatever reason I can’t get the eject done properly. Except today. I rushed, I pulled it out of my computer. And when I get into the office, the good news is that most of the folders were fine. The bad news is that the one folder that I always use was corrupted.
Now, I learned my lesson from last year when my flash drive just died to make sure I backup on a weekly basis, rather than sporadically. Anyway, I still wanted to know WHAT I lost, and if I have to bother doing an automated recovery, or simply manually recreating whatever I lost.
And this is the software I found from Get Data:
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
What a fantastic piece of software. It scanned my flash drive, and reports on everything it could find, including giving me a preview of the files. Based on the preview alone, I can recreate what I needed in many of the cases. In addition, it shows dates, and so, I just had to look for the files last modified since my last backup. And you can even export the names of the files (and dates, etc).
And all that is free.
For 70$, you buy the Pro version, and it’ll recover all the data it can for you. In my case, since I made a recent backup, and whatever was not backed-up I can recreate manually, it’s not worth it. This time anyway. But, it may be useful in the future.
I also wanted to highlight this software for anyone who has experienced some corrupt drives, or may in the future.
I presume that there are other enterprise standard software for around that price. But this was the first one I found that gave you all the preview capabilities it did for free. And for that alone, I give it two thumbs up.
NOTE: This post is *not* an advertisement.
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