ProSoft Data Rescue II (Mac) | 
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List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $45.99
You Save: $54.00 (54%)
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 550
Format: Cd
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 1.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 25100
Model: 25100
UPC: 794038251007
EAN: 0794038251007
ASIN: B000BFHFXO
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: brand new in sealed retail packaging
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| Features:
| • | Data recovery software for recovering files from a problem hard drive | | • | New all Cocoa-based GUI user interface; faster scanning and recovery | | • | Assistant mode and Expert mode operation; drag-and-drop recovery | | • | Supports 10 times more file types for content scans than Data Rescue X | | • | Optimized for Tiger; runs on Panther and Jaguar |
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Product Description
Data Rescue II is a powerful data recovery utility that saves your data from being lost for good. When other tools fail to recognize your bad drive, or cause even more damage by trying to 'fix' your damaged files, Data Rescue II delivers the professional results you need. Retain authorization -- no need to keep logging in, just enter your user password once
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Recovering data and peace of mind July 26, 2006
Loren (Columbus, Ohio)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I was frantic when I discovered that I had thrown away 20 years worth of accumulated sermons, letters, articles I'd written, even book manuscripts. (Yes, I know I should have backed up! But I hadn't.) I bought this product, and recovered everything. Simple and elegant. It doesn't take a technician to do it. You can also get it on to a start-up CD, which I would think most users would want to do. My only negative is that my e-mails to ProSoft for promised free technical assistance were cryptic and only marginally helpful. But as it turned out, the software was so easy to use that it didn't matter.
Several things you should know, however:
* The moment you realize you've lost data, you must shut down your computer and restart from the CD or a different drive. Even if you're not actively saving files, applications are constantly writing to the drive in the background, and could overwrite something you've thrown away, making it unrecoverable.
* You must have an external firewire or USB drive. It is not sufficient to be connected to a network--DRII will not work over a network. I was able to borrow a small FW drive, and it worked fine.
* You will not get back your file names. You will, however, get back file types. So you'll know it's a MS word file, but not which MS word file. Which necessitates opening each file and renaming it. This is the tax (along with the roughly $100 to buy the software, plus all your worry) on your stupidity in throwing away your files in the first place. (Note: I think someone could create a utility to streamline that process.)
* You will get back junk you never knew was on there, and that you didn't put there, such as hundreds of foreign language templates and legal disclaimers that Office apparently dumps on to your drive when it first installs, and then erases. (One wonders why it is necessary for Office to do that.)
* Finally, if you're using 10.4 and you want to search those unnamed files by content using the powerful Spotllight search engine, you will have to get Spotlight to index the new files. For some reason, that doesn't happen automatically when you place those recovered files back on your disk from a FW drive. Go to the Spotlight preferences panel, click on the privacy tab, and drag the folders with the recovered data into the privacy panel. Close the preferences window, reopen it, and erase them from that privacy listing. As they come back into the main set of files again, Spotlight will automatically index them. Though this happens in the background, it takes a few minutes and slows things down (a small price to pay.)
It is cheaper right now to buy DRII on Amazon than on the ProSoft website. If you do buy it at ProSoft, don't bother to get the CD package mailed to you if you have a fast connection. Download it, make your own CD, and save $10.
Should have bought this first! January 29, 2006
K. Filicetti (Indiana)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
my imac HD crashed and wouldn't boot. Disk Warrior didn't do anything but eat my $100. Data Rescue did EXACTLY what it said it would. It read the HD and retrieved every single file on my HD. If you need something to work get this!!!
Amazing! February 23, 2007
Rogue Mac (Essex, MA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As I see it, a hard drive can fail electronically, mechanically, or through data corruption. Data Resue II handles the last scenario perfectly without breaking a sweat.
A little background - I was using TechTool Pro for routine maintenance. It found Volume Structure problems, but upon attempting a repair the drive's directory structure got corrupted. [Don't take this as a swipe at TTP. I've used it for years on my and my client's Macs, and still highly recommend it.] So I had a drive that TTP could list, but the drive would not mount however I tried.
I got a new drive to install the OS on, left the old drive connected and ran Data Rescue II. After a minute or so (!!!!) it showed me all my data on the old drive. I had DR II transfer the data to the new drive and discovered it was pristine - my fear was that my files would just be generic (0001.jpg, 001.mov) and I'd have to rename them all, but the data was ready to use.
I love this product!
Saves Your Data! March 16, 2006
1gr8muggle (League City, TX)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can't say enough about how grateful I am for this software. It was able to recover in a few hours what DiskWarrior could not find over several days of scanning. Get the free demo, run a scan to be sure it works, then you can buy the full version to recover all your files. This will save you from wasting money on products that might not work.
Did the job! May 1, 2006
Mark Oveson (Louisville, Colorado)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm very impressed with this product. After buying DiskWarrior (which did not work) I downloaded the free trial of Data Rescue and was pleasantly surprised. In about 7 hours it read my severely damaged hard drive and saved thousands of my files. Well worth the price, particularly since it's risk free to buy the trial version.
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