VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.9.1

• Popularity:

  #4 in System Utilities (out of 241 products)

• License:

  Free to try; $119.95 to buy

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.5 stars (out of 168 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  242,405

• Requirements:

  Mac OS 9x/X 10.3/X 10.4/X Server

• Limitations:

  Save-disabled

• Date Added:

  October 03, 2006

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.3.1 VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.8.6 VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.8.4 VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.7.9 VirtualLab Data Recovery 2.4.6 VirtualLab Data Recovery (Mac) 2.4.6 VirtualLab Data Recovery 2.4.6

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Publisher's description of VirtualLab Data Recovery

If you've lost data, VirtualLab Data Recovery Software is the professional choice for getting it back. VirtualLab is non-destructive data recovery software that recovers deleted files, damaged or missing volumes, and even formatted disks. An exhaustive scan of the drive is performed to locate lost partitions and files. Your data is presented in a finder-like view of files and directories so you can copy your lost files to another safe location, such as a networked or FireWire drive.

VirtualLab lets you recover your data for free and shows you the files it's found prior to purchase. VirtualLab recovers data from hard drives, CD-ROMs, external devices (Zip, Jaz, and SyQuest drives), digital camera cards, and iPods. Classic support for PowerPC and even Classic OS 9 is included. Version 3.9.1 now supports Intel Macs.

Editor's review of VirtualLab Data Recovery

• 4.0 stars

• "Rescue data"

This utility restores data you have deleted or can't access due to hard-disk corruption. In our testing, it managed to find files we deleted off the pen drive long ago. Although VirtualLab Data Recovery works on most forms of formatted and damaged media, including digital cameras, it does not support CD and DVD recovery.

The interface is a bit confusing at first, but it carefully guides you through the restoration process. To focus your search, you can specify the name, type, time characteristics, or size of a lost file, but you can't search for text. You can preview the found files, including JPEG images, before recovering them. The trial version doesn't allow you to save found files, however.

The main issue is that you install a client the company's server commands over the Internet. On the one hand, you pay only for the files you restore at a rate of $100 per GB. On the other hand, you may encounter Internet costs and security issues--and if your Mac doesn't boot at all, you're out of luck.

User reviews

• Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 168 votes
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• 4 stars

  99 out of 99 people found this review helpful

  Version: VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.9.1

  "Excellent"

  by marty_001 on October 25, 2007

  Pros: This is an older app but still excellent among the best mac recovery apps out there. There are some others, but this one clearly has more features and works a lot better than the others out there.

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• 4 stars

  99 out of 99 people found this review helpful

  Version: VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.9.1

  "Worthy contender"

  by PCGuru99 on October 9, 2007

  Pros: There's only like 2 data recovery apps out there for Mac and this one does RAID better than the others.

  Cons: If it were'nt for the high price, they'd probably put data rescue out of business.

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• 5 stars

  100 out of 100 people found this review helpful

  Version: VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.9.1

  "GOOD and AMAZING!!!!!!!!!"

  by bitok001 on April 5, 2008

  Pros: it is just amazing to know how I happily avail this good product from this good company. I recovered my files from my computer which put my worries away. and now I be of myself with a lot of smiles.

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• 5 stars

  99 out of 99 people found this review helpful

  Version: VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.9.1

  "Important tool to have."

  by johnkloss on October 12, 2007

  Pros: I was able to recover a 4 drive raid with very little corruption and no data loss. My customer deleted the stripe, and VirtualLab not only found the data (amazing!) it completely recovered the entire array!

  You may not recover data for a living (and this software certainly is powerful enough to make a living with) but VirtualLab is one of the easiest and most intuitive programs I've used.

  Two solid thumbs up! Thanks VirtualLab!

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• 5 stars

  101 out of 102 people found this review helpful

  Version: VirtualLab Data Recovery 3.9.1

  "very good"

  by martin_jack on December 18, 2006

  Pros: i used the pc version of this product first, and it works as good or better than the mac version, plus the pc version will recover mac volumes and store the data in a DMG file with all the resouces in tact! now that's cool!

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