Looking at data recovery tools to find deleted and lost files
There are thousands of data recovery programs available online, but almost every one of them is flawed in one way or another. Some work well, but work so slowly that the actual time required to scan and recover files from a 100 gigabyte hard drive is over 168 hours. That is a full week. Other programs are faster but will only return a list of files found without the original file names. In place of the file names are labels and numbers such as generic file 001, generic file 002, etc. When you are looking for one particular deleted file in a list containing at least 250,000, finding your missing file becomes impossible.
Still, other programs will recover lost files with the original file names intact, but have no ability to sort the files into helpful categories such as documents, videos or zip files. Once again, this leaves you looking through thousands of files to find the one you lost. The final and perhaps worst flaw in most data recovery tools is that in the case of a crashed hard drive, they can only access the files on that drive by means of a separate working computer and cable connections. A better quality program has none of these data recovery tool flaws.
