Handy Recovery Software
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Few days back we got hand on software called Handy Recovery, and decided to test it. Here as the name suggest, it’s not one of those big software which take control of your PC and make it slow. The work of recovery software is to recover data from disk if it gets deleted or corrupt (not readable). Floppies as we all know are the most unreliable for storing data, so we decided to use it for the test. If it can recover data fron this, it will recover from any other disk easily.
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I used a 4 year old floppy from an unknown manufacturer that came with a joystick and the driver; this floppy had bad sectors too. This is going to be a hard time for Handy Recovery. Let’s begin the test: Step 1: I copied some files of various types like image, notepad, excel, pdf, video, mp3, word, compressed zip file etc which are the commonly stored file types on normal PC user. Then I deleted it by pressing shift button so that nothing goes to recycle bin and gets deleted permanently.
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| Step 2: Now I scanned this floppy with handy recovery to see if I can get my deleted files back. Here you can see in the screenshot, all the deleted files were detected. However they are detected only and not recovered yet. Recovered files can be restored on another disk also for safety reason; I used "D:/Recovered Files" as the default location for all my restored files. | ||||
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| Step 3: As you can see a question mark “?” before some file names, it happens when the software is not able to recover file names, in that case it prompt us to rename it while recovering, else it automatically replace those “?” with “_” . Recovering files was quite fast considering slow speed of floppy drive and took not more than a minute. All the files were successfully recovered! | ||||
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Pros: Affordable data recovery software that works. Cons: Was not able to recover file from formatted disk. Note: This is not a sponsored post. |
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