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Review: Recover Disk

18 October 2008 1,639 views 4 Comments



A microwaved CD (don't try this at home!) - Windows XP tips & tricksHave a damaged CD or DVD that your computer can’t read? – Recover Disk can help you out. It doesn’t matter if the disk is scratched, microwaved or just incorrectly written.

To be honest, I didn’t try the microwave experiment and I recommend you don’t as well. To relieve your curiosity and save you from a harmful dose of radiation, the picture on the right shows you what a CD looks like after a bit of “cooking”.

This experiment is really bad for both the microwave oven and the CD, so I tried a safer way of testing Recover Disk out – using the good old keys and screwdriver on the poor CD…

Scratched disk - Widnows XP tips & tricks<– This is what my disk looked like after some treatment.

And guess what? Recover Disk could read over 35% of it! Not too much but what more could you expect? Certainly useful to save something from a CD-full of old family photos that got run over by a truck.

It is highly unlikely that your disk will get scratched half this much, so you’ll probably get a much better percentage of data back.
The Recover Disk UI - Windows XP tips & tricks

The program itself has a clean, no-nonsense interface that is very simple to use. All you have to do, is to select your CD/DVD drive from a drop-down box. Depending on how damaged the disk is, it will take a minute or two to collect all the pieces of data together.

So if you have a damaged CD or DVD with very important information and are willing to pay the very reasonable $27, Recover Disk is for you. I’ll give it a good 4/5 stars.

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4 Comments »

  • techniqueal t. said:

    35% eh? that’s amazingly quite a lot, if you ask me.

    nothing is more accurate than testing it out yourself. great review!

    # 2 November 2008 at 5:51 pm
  • Noah said:

    You might also want to check out DVDisaster which runs on MS Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, and NetBSD operating systems:

    http://dvdisaster.net/en/

    P.S. I’ve microwaved dozens of CDs — maybe even hundreds — with no harm to me or microwave. CDRs tend to make a terrible smell. Set timer for 1 second on high. If that doesn’t work then set timer for 2 seconds… repeat until your head explodes.

    # 25 March 2009 at 5:01 am
  • top max team said:

    Great post!!! It’s really interesting to recover the lost data…. Often you loose your important data, deleting files & folders which later proves to be important… At this time you need data recovery software to recover such data or to restore data safely & securely… There are many Disk Data Recovery Software & Disk Recovery Tools are available in the market…

    # 31 July 2009 at 4:42 pm
  • Mahendra said:

    Thanks for giving such a nice information about recovery disk.I have used Stellar windows data recovery software to recover my lost partition.It helps me to recover maximum of my data.This partition recovery software supports Windows 7.0, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000, and recovers complete data from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 based partitions and volumes.

    # 18 August 2009 at 10:42 am

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