iolo Search and Recover 3 [Instantly recover deleted files, photos, email]

by IOLO Technologies

Product Features

• Software program for recovering deleted files, photos, email, and more
• StrongScan technology finds and reassembles data from even the worst disasters
• New search algorithms locate and identify lost files other products can't find
• Salvage deleted data from CD, DVD, and other optical media
• Completely eliminate private and sensitive information; easy-to-use interface

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009JQRVI
• Item model number: SR3
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 1, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,322 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Instantly recover deleted files, photos, email, and more using Search and Recover 3’s powerful, easy-to-use interface. Get back deleted pictures, videos, MP3s, email, documents, spreadsheets, system files, and any other file or folder on your hard drive, CD/DVD media, MP3 player, digital camera, memory card, or other portable device. Recover data after emptying your Recycle Bin, formatting or repartitioning a drive, and even after the worst PC disasters using new StrongScan technology.

Features:

• Proprietary StrongScan technology uses powerful low-level techniques to find and reassemble data from even the worst disasters, including accidental formatting, repartitioning, and more.
• Finds more lost and deleted files. Powerful new search algorithms locate and identify lost files that other products can't find--even months and years after original deletion.
• Salvage deleted data from CD, DVD, and other optical media. Recover lost and deleted files on all optical-based storage, including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and many more--even if media is damaged.
• More reliable data recovery. Run data rescue tools directly from CD in order to prevent potential further data loss and ensure optimal chances of recovery.
• Recover anything from everything. Get back deleted pictures, videos, MP3s, email, documents, spreadsheets, system files, and any other file or folder on your hard drive, CD/DVD media, MP3 player, digital camera, memory card, or other portable device using Search and Recover's powerful, easy-to-use interface. Recover data after your Recycle Bin has been emptied. Preview data before saving. Rescue files even after formatting the drive or device.
• Resurrect deleted email messages. Accidentally deleted an important email? Instantly recover messages in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, and QUALCOMM Eudora. Salvage deleted contacts, calendar, tasks, and more in MS Outlook.
• Be ready when disaster strikes. Don't wait until a catastrophe before putting Search and Recover in place. With Search and Recover installed, you can create instant mirror copies of entire drives the minute data loss is suspected and use them for flawless recovery. Search and Recover's disk imaging preserves data the right way by backing up all files--not just those you can still see.
• Bonus data security tools: Completely eliminate private and sensitive information from your PC or digital media device. Terminate existing files, documents, and pictures, or safely wipe already-deleted data from your system.
• Owners of digital gadgets rejoice! Unintentionally removed a picture, song, or a video form your digital media device? Accidentally formatted a memory card? Reclaim deleted items from digital cameras, music players, memory cards, flash drives, CD/DVD media, and virtually every other digital device.
• Works with all modern operating systems, drives, portable digital media, and file formats including:
  • OS: Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP
  • Drives: IDE, SCSI, USB, FireWire, and more
  • Formats: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
  • Portable digital media: digital cameras, music players, memory cards, USB drives, CD/DVD optical media, and more

Product Description

Instantly recover deleted files, photos, email, and more. Get back deleted pictures, videos, MP3s, email, documents, spreadsheets, system files, and any other file or folder on your hard drive, CD/DVD media, MP3 player, digital camera, memory card, or other portable device using Search and Recover 3’s powerful, easy-to-use interface. Recover data after emptying your Recycle Bin, formatting or repartitioning a drive, and even after the worst PC disasters using new StrongScan™ technology.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Earns a 0 star rating. Save your money., February 1, 2006

By 

Stephen Britton "tech writer and web developer" (A quiet suburb outside NYC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iolo Search and Recover 3 [Instantly recover deleted files, photos, email] (CD-ROM)

Beware! This program is software snake oil. The description and sales materials make Search and Recover sound like it can recover everything. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to all the hype. I tried to recover files from a hard drive, a Secure Digital card, and USB thumb drive, and nothing worked!

To make matters worse, even Iolo's tech support has no idea how the product works. Before I purchased this awful program, I sent an email to Iolo asking them if the CD was bootable. It is NOT!!

I only wish I had read the reviews here before I spent money on this piece of junk. You have been warned.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely sucks, October 15, 2005

By 

Joanna (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: iolo Search and Recover 3 [Instantly recover deleted files, photos, email] (CD-ROM)

It completely sucks. The software starts scanning and then gets stuck "not responding", when I finally got it to scan it never found any of the pictures I recently lost, I tried to use the "recover" feature but it was not responding after it finished scanning. A complete pain in the ass, lost my money, never got the pictures or files I wanted. It scans things you have been looking at in the computer, so if you were reading about a movie or looking at some clothes recently, that is what you will recover.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Totally Useless!, January 16, 2006

By 

Geek since '84 (CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: iolo Search and Recover 3 [Instantly recover deleted files, photos, email] (CD-ROM)

I agree with the other 2 reviews-this SUCKS! I give it a -0 if Amazon had a score that low. I put the thing on a "deep scan" and waited FOURTY TWO HOURS for this P.O.S. to recover... NOTHING! It froze up on me too. All it did was come up with s--t I already knew was there and traces of half-mangled temp file pix that I had already dumped from cookies and cache via Disk Cleanup. Gee, thanks for sorting thru my TRASH! The C.S. Rep was dumb as a box o' rocks, and even an old Tech like me could not show sympathy as I let her have it. She knew less about the product than I did after using it! People: save yourself and DON'T even THINK about buying this useless excuse for recovery software, or any other Iolo product. I doubt if they could think their way out of the fancy package of empty promises they put the C.D. in. Good thing I'm a regular at CompUSA (people who will swing a deal with you and have employees who actually KNOW what they're talking about. Kudos to Store #167), because this thing's going back!