Undelete 2009 Review: File Recovery Made Easy

Review of Diskeeper Corporation's Undelete 2009
by Brett (5,993 pts )
Edited & published by Brett (5,993 pts ) on May 8, 2009
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Diskeeper Corporation's Undelete 2009 is an easy to use file recovery solution that will protect your data against accidental deletion.

What is Undelete 2009?

Have you ever accidentally deleted an important file? Or been left cursing after having unintentionally overwritten a Microsoft Office document? It's a situation which most people have probably encountered at some time - and a situation which IT departments need to deal with on a regular basis. Undelete enables you to easily and speedily recover from such disasters. With Undelete you can:

  • Recover deleted accidentally deleted files, including files deleted over the network.
  • Recover files that were deleted prior to Undelete being installed.
  • Recover previous versions of overwritten World, Excel or PowerPoint documents.

Additionally, Undelete also includes a SecureDelete function which enables you to securely delete files so that they are, to all intents and purposes, impossible to recover.

Undelete supports Windows 2000 through to Windows Vista and is available in Home, Pro and Server Editions. In the Home Edition, support is limited to 32-bit versions of Windows. The Pro version adds support for 64-bit versions of Windows and can connect to the Undelete Server Edition (making it suitable for deployment on client computers or computers which connect only intermittently to the network). The Server Edition adds support for Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008 and can be delpoyed across the entire network (a Desktop Client is installed on each client computer which enables users to perform their own undelete operations).

Undelete works with NTFS and both 16 and 32-but file systems and supports primary partitions, logical partitions, RAID arrays, SAN-attached volumes, removable media (including ZIP drives and memory cards) and a range of other IDE and SCSI devices.

Installation and setupRating Excellent

Installation is extremely straightforward. In the case of the Server Edition, no reboot is needed and a PushInstall feature enables the speedy install of either the Desktop Client or the Professional Edition on client computers.

Note that the Desktop Client only enables users to recover files that were deleted from the server on which Undelete Server is installed, and not files that were locally stored on the client computer. To enable users to recover locally stored files, it is necessary to install (and buy) Undelete Professional.

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