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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Comments
Designed especially for digital photographers, Digital Photo Recovery recovers images
from an exceptional range of media. According to users, it has helped in situations where
other recovery tools have failed. With its low price and non-destructive approach, it is
certainly worth trying in an emergency. The vendor is very supportive, with a customer
service team that handles queries seven days a week.
Version: Digital Photo Recovery 2.0.3 (2008)
OS: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP
RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: Major RAW (with additional Camera Pack); JPEG, GIF, RiFF, TIFF,
AVI, PNG, BMP, MPEG, MOV, WAV, MIDI, and QuickTime
Price level: $30, Camera Pack $20, Power Pack $40
Address: Galaxy Inc., 163 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10003, United States
www.photosrecovery.com
Digital Picture Recovery
Vendor: DTIData
Purpose: Recover lost, deleted, and formatted digital pictures on removable media
Description
Known chiefly as an operator of a “no fix, no fee” data recovery service, DTIData offers
many recovery software packages, including this one, specially designed for recovering
digital images. Available in versions for both Windows and Mac, Digital Picture
Recovery can recover lost, deleted, and formatted digital pictures on removable media
such as flash cards, SmartMedia, memory sticks, floppy drive readers, and so on.
Comments
It is difficult to test data recovery software in normal circumstances, but photographers
who have experienced crashes report that Digital Picture Recovery succeeded in recovering
most of their files. It can take several hours to work its way through a really massive
drive, but it gets there in the end, recovering data that have not been overwritten
or completely wiped.
This vendor also sells Recover It All in editions for Windows, Mac, and Solaris, to
recover damaged, deleted, or corrupted volumes even from disks that have been initialized.
However, documentation leaves a lot to be desired, despite a White Paper
bemoaning the decline of standards in the data recovery industry. This is possibly
because the vendor is a full-service data recovery lab in both the U.S. and UK, concentrating
on services rather than product marketing.