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Title: Back in a flash

Author: Breeden, John, II Article Type: Review
Source: Government Computer News, v24 n23 p34(2) Publication Date: May 23, 2005
  ISSN: 0738-4300
  Illustrations: Tables, Screen Layouts
URL of Publication: http://www.gcn.com

Active@Undelete 5.1 from LSoft Technologies addresses a problem area by providing a data recovery application designed to rescue corrupted data from USB key drives. These drives have largely replaced the floppy disc as a convenient and portable way to store data. The problem is that they are extremely vulnerable to data loss during the read/write process. The program installs quickly, and completes a preliminary scan of the floppy and hard drives and data ports upon installation. The application features a well designed user interface that organizes suspect or missing files in an easily read display format. A convenient file information panel in the main window tells when the file in question was last modified and relates whether or not it can be recovered. A convenient preview function, while not perfect, gives the user an adequate preview of either Word or Excel files. In a real life test, the application was able to identify all lost files, although it was not able to recover all of them. More importantly, nearly half of the recovered files contained some junk text or indecipherable text. In short, the application is better at finding lost files than recovering them, but does a decent job of restoring damaged files, and remains one of the few solutions to this problem available at the present time.

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LSoft Technologies Inc

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