Pandora Recovery v1.4
webfork on 24 Aug 2014 Change history
- 4MB (uncompressed)
- Released on
- Suggested by Andrew Lee
Pandora Recovery helps to recover permanently deleted files that cannot be found in the Recycle Bin. The program works with NTFS, NTFS5 and NTFS/EFS partitions. You can preview deleted files of certain type (images and text files) without performing recovery. A deep cluster scan mode is also available that is able to recover files whose MFT record has been overwritten, or when the file allocation table is missing or corrupted. In addition, Pandora Recovery supports recovery of archived, hidden, system, sparse, encrypted and compressed files, as well as ADS (Alternate Data Streams).
The program will ask you to fill up a survey upon exit when you run it for the first time, which you can skip by clicking the "Close" button.
Note: Latest version of this program is ad-supported and has not been tested for portability. A mirror for the 1.4 version has been contributed post in forums (thanks NickR).
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| Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
| Writes settings to: | User profile folder. I am accepting this as portable because I am assuming it will be used on rare occasions when data recovery is more important than having portable settings. |
| Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
| Stealth: ? | No |
| License: | Free for non-commercial use<span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;"></span> |
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14 comments on Pandora Recovery
webfork
2014-08-20 00:12
zylstra: Sometimes the developer makes changes to their program that aren't free or portable, which we of course don't have any control over. In the case of Pandora, we tried to find a mirror or host for the old version without success.
v1.4
ihateyou
2012-10-17 11:45
the best way I found it to work is
install pandora recovery
copy the installed folder (program files) to a portable media
create to .reg files in the same folder
1- "create_portable_key.reg" or what ever name with the this
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PandoraRecovery]
"Anchor"=dword:000000a9
2-delete_portable_key.reg" or what ever name with this
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PandoraRecovery]
like this you clean the recovered system and will have a portable pandora.
you can be fancy and create a batch file automating all this for you but I am lazy....
V1.4
JeanUntel
2010-10-20 14:18
Very good software that can search across all sectors of a hard disk for traces of files like .DOC, .XLS, ...
NOT free for commecial use, though. See http://www.pandorarecovery.com/eula/index.php
a
2008-07-09 08:27
what kind of file recovery tool writes to the hard drive, wouldn't that defeat the purpose for appropriate recovery since the chances of the files beinf overwritten increase with disk writes.
Known_Issues
2008-06-23 04:54
The free pandora recovery is not designed to be portable, you can find that out by reading content of their faq:
Can I copy Pandora Recovery from the original media to another disk drive and run it?
No, Pandora Recovery won't work on another disk drive.
Hovewer, you can purchase portable pandora recovery+flash drive (not for free, of course) on amazon.com. The advantage of the portable version is you can use it for your business, while free pandora recovery is for your personal use only.
Mancubus
2007-12-24 23:29
Thanks everyone for answers. I have checked your recommendations. In my case only the advice by sentry42 worked.
Queue
2007-11-24 21:24
You don't even need that anchor entry it seems; the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PandoraRecovery] simply has to exist. The program also auto-generates a resource DLL based on the neutral_res DLL and your local language DLL in the Lang subfolder when it's first run (creating pmres.dll) and needs an %appdata%\PandoraRecovery\Profile.xml file to exist, or for the %appdata%\PandoraRecovery folder to not exist at all (in order to properly generate it). Basically, the program has some specific needs in order to properly start up and not throw an error message about missing files.
That said, it's a pretty swanky utility.
@webfork: until such mirror is found, it's in your power to downvote this...
v1.4