Reviews for ProSoft Data Rescue 3

I didn't think this kind of rescue was possible. It was a worst case scenario: In my haste to format a 2GB SD card, I accidentally clicked on my 2TB Video drive and hit "erase". BOOM. I had erased thousands of pictures and video's that WERE NOT backed up (let's not even discuss that - it happens)

To make a long story short, I bought Data Rescue 3 and hooked the erased 2 TB drive up to my laptop with a 2TB USB drive and started the program. After an almost 24 hour scan it seemed to find EVERYTHING and more. It found 3.4TBs of info. It was recreating things that hadn't been on the drive for AGES. In another day and a half, it recreated and copied everything I wanted to a new USB drive. I'm still stunned and eternally grateful that this was even possible. Thank you Prosoft. : >

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I formatted an iMac and installed upgraded system software. Then realised I had missed backing up huge amounts of files of another user on the computer. Oops. Very important files to this other person. And it was all my fault :-( So I hoped for a miracle and tried Data Rescue 3. Simply, it worked. It somehow combed the formatted and re-installed hard drive and rebuilt/reconstructed thousands of docs and pictures. It took 4 hours. The 'Recover' button didn't work but Tech Support told me to simply quit and re-launch the software. It worked. I was able to recover most of the files and images. I have worked with computers since 1979 and have never never seen anything this good. Miraculous.

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I deleted all my daughters files by accident, she is in college and I was helping her delete all her junk mail. I was so upset and so was my daughter, ok there were tears and a few words. I then took her computer to the apple store, the young man helping me said he couldn't find any deleted documents. I then asked if he could please ask the manager for advice. The manager suggested Data Rescue 3 or taking it to someplace that specializes in data recovery. I didn't have the time or money to take it to someone to do it for me. So I purchased Data Rescue 3, I am not computer savvy, but with the great technical support; "Thank-you Mike!"and a fantastic program we were abel to retrieve all 139 files her midterms and her college passwords. WOW!! thanks again Data Rescue. BTW we now have her programs/files backed up in triplicate.

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A friend of mine recently accidentally re-formatted his External Hard Drive which contained all his iTunes Music library and media. As a long time user of Drive Genius, last night, I purchased Data Rescue 3, ran it all night and recovered all 115GB of his music, and I have now imported the music back into iTunes. I have never ventured into data recovery before, but I have to say that your program is not only effective, but also very intuitive to use. I didn't have time to read the full manual. Just used the deleted Items scan. It took about 7 hours to scan and about 4 hrs to recover.
I love the way the recovered files are shown in Folders, in this case Music, with each type nested inside, i.e. MP3, AIFF, etc It even restored the song and album name, and the artwork artwork!
It is also good value for money.
Needless to say we are both very impressed with Data Rescue!

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This was my first time recovering data from a broken HDD. It was bad. My disk had a S.M.A.R.T failure. My Imac wouldn't even boot. Due to an icky Time Machine I'd estimate I had lost ~4 weeks worth of data. Being a tight scotsman, I really didnt want to spend $800-$2000 for a "professional" to retrieve my data...

Data Rescue 3 was a life saver! The software was intuituve & easy to use. The on-line support was prompt & efficient. I was able to use Data Rescue 3 to boot the Imac up and inspect the HDD. Unfortunately, my deepscan failed with some weird cryptic message. After a quick email exchange with Prosoft support (he rocked), I managed to clone the entire HDD to an external drive, run another deep scan (warning - this took ~9hrs for 1TB) and was able to restore ~99% of the data. The actual recovery time was way quicker than the scan though. I swear this was the best $100 I've spent in years. I'm already being asked to help other people out with their molly drives!

Huge thanks to ALL the folks at Prosoft for developing a fantastic piece of software :)

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This product has been a mac staple for years, and years. And years.

It's one of those products that you don't need until you need it, then you'd better have it. Eventually, unless you're really lucky, you'll need it. If you though time machine was cool, this product actually compliments it by doing recovery on non-tm disks. I've used it to recover family photos, fix external cf cards that have failed while in camera (saving photos I thought were gone). It's epic.

Buy it.

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I unfortunately deleted my 12T PROMISE RAID unit in a fraction of a second (my fault, i'm stupid) I was around to kill myself when i tried (with no hope at all) DARA RESCUE 3 and this software is absolutely amazing !!
Definitely, it will depend on the size of your disk for the time it will run, but even after 3 weeks (oh, yes) i have recover all my data !
This is my best 100$ spent !!
Don't kill yourself before you tried it !

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I had inadvertently deleted all of my email in my inbox when deleting another Mail account (I have suggested to Apple that they address this issue as I am not the only one to have done this!). After 2 phone calls with Apple Support they told me that the messages were gone! I purchased this product and with a lot of patience from Jeremy in the ProSoft Support department (yes, a REAL person!!) in a very short time I had all of my emails back! This program is absolutely worth it's weight in gold!!

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I was rescued by Data Rescue 3 today. Many files were lost and Data Rescue 3 recovered them perfectly. It´s fantastic!!!

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