Recovery is not free, but it works well

Recovery is not free, but it works well

That’s when I learned that the free version of MiniTool Power Data Recovery comes with a 1 GB data recovery limit. I needed to restore about 21 GB of data, so there was nothing to do except pony up the $69 fee for a personal license. The expenditure proved worth every penny, because the tool’s “Lost Partition Recovery” facility resuscitated about 99% of the data on the affected drive. Recovery coverage depends on how much data has been overwritten onto new partitions in finding and saving files and folders from previous “lost” partitions. In my case I was luck enough to recognize my mistake quickly, and did no writing to the drive other than what occurred when setting up the partitions and writing the entries necessary to set up NTFS on the volume.

The process was fairly slow, because over 210 GB worth of files were recovered. It ended up taking 2.7 hours to complete, on a fairly fast PC (i7 4770K on a Z97 chipset motherboard), but that’s probably because I had the drive plugged into a USB 3.0 drive caddy rather than a 6 Gbps SATA port. But MiniTool Power Data Recovery proved equal to the task, and paid for itself, IMHO, on its first use.

I’d learned about the program from TenForums.com, where the program gets accolades from many members. See, for example MiniTool Power Data Recovery to the Rescue and Good data recovery tool for deleted files?, among many others. It definitely did the job for me, and may come in handy for admins and power users in need of a capable first line of file/disk recovery software defense. That’s why I assert with some confidence that “MiniTool Power Data Recovery rocks!”