Search and Recover: Every PC User's Woe

Posted by on April 30th, 2007 at 04:09am

Pandora Corp. launches free “Pandora Recovery” software. Free help, for all those who have deleted that important file.

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 25, 2007 — Pandora Corp. has recently launched free “Pandora Recovery” software. That means free help for all those who have deleted that important file.

The problem is common. Weve all been there: Youre working on your PC and decide to permanently delete a file you think you dont need anymore.

style='text-decoration:none;color:#748DA7; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold'>You are just telling the computer, OK, I dont need this space anymore, you can use it for something else now. Its really just the PC recycling its memory.

Then - sometimes immediately, sometimes not for weeks - you realize you shouldnt have done that. Or maybe your computer crashes one day when you are in the middle of an important report - or maybe a virus attacks through an unfamiliar email.

These are all times when easy-to-use data and file recovery programs are essential. Fortunately, Pandora Corp., a leader in PC security, has come to the rescue.

“As computers now run almost everyones everyday life, more and more mistakes are bound to happen, and these mistakes can become more and more damaging” says Pandora Corp. co-founder, James Leasure. “I cant tell you how many times I have deleted a file only to regret it soon thereafter. This program was designed with average computer users like me in mind.”

The Solution:

Pandora Corps newest offering, Pandora Recovery, allows PC users to find and recover deleted files from NTFS-formatted volumes (New Technology File System, the default file system in all modern operating systems from Microsoft). The program scans your hard drive and builds an index of both existing and deleted files and directories. Once the scanning is complete, you have full control over which files to recover and what destination to recover them to.

On top of that, Pandora Recovery allows you to preview deleted files of certain type (images and text files) without performing the full recovery.

“We wanted to create a program that would recover as much as possible for our users,” adds co-founder Manuel Coats. “It can recover not only regular files, but also archived, hidden, system, sparse, encrypted and compressed files. Its really effective - a helpful tool for anyone, and always available when you least expect it but need it most.”

Thats because - its free!

“Everyone makes mistakes. You shouldnt always have to pay for them,” says Leasure.

How Data Recovery Works:

When a file is deleted, the disk space once occupied by the file is set to be reused by file system. The file system reallocates the space for data of newly created files. Once the operating system does that, the deleted file becomes partially or completely overwritten.

“In reality, nothing is deleted,” explains Chief Technical Officer, Bojan Gajic. “You are just telling the computer, OK, I dont need this space anymore, you can use it for something else now. Its really just the PC recycling its memory.”

Pandora Recovery handles files regardless of their type, size or any other attribute. As long as the deleted files space has not been reused yet, the program can successfully recover content of any deleted file. Overwritten files can still be recovered, but they most likely will not be usable.

“We designed the program to be not only incredibly user friendly, but user-helpful too,” says Leasure. “It gives you a full display of file properties, which includes an estimate of recovery success. It will tell you the files availability percentage, such as Overwritten: 50% or Overwritten: 0%. The higher the percent of overwriting, the lower the chance of successful recovery.”

A Necessary Tool:

Data and file recovery programs are increasingly in necessity. Over 3,000 people downloaded the program within the first 72 hours of availability. Whether its a file you accidentally deleted, or using the program in conjunction with the companys PC Pandora program to recover suspicious or accidentally lost files deleted by your children or other family members, the need is great and ever-present. One source reports that there are 4.6 million cases of lost data each year.

According to Coats, “It most likely will not be a program you use daily& but when you need it, you need it. And it may really save you a lot of stress and headaches in your computer usage.”

The program is available as a free download at http://www.pandorarecovery.com/download.

Whats Next?

So whats the next step in data recovery?

“Were going to keep expanding the realm of possibilities of where to locate lost data,” concludes Gajic. “Were working on making it possible to get corrupted or lost data off old Windows 95 and 98 drives, as well as old floppy discs and even memory cards from digital cameras.”

How Does It Disappear?

Statistics on data loss is sparse, as most research is conducted independently by companies who specialize in data recovery. Here are a few statistics that illustrate the spectrum of data loss from a few years ago&

Miscellaneous stats about computer data loss:

· A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds

· 32% of data loss is caused by human error

· 25% of lost data is due to the failure of a portable drive

· 44% of data loss caused by mechanical failures

· 1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime

A national Harris Interactive survey of 597 computer users revealed:

· Nearly 3 out of 5 personal computer users have lost an electronic file they thought they had sufficiently stored

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