eDATA Unerase Personal Edition

People work with virtual files on a daily basis, even if they don’t really realize it. However, when they do, it might just be a bit late, because important files are no longer there. Luckily, there are an abundance of recovery applications like eDATA Unerase Personal Edition over the web to help you out in such sticky situations.

On the visual side of things, the application comes with a custom-built frame, highly-detailed buttons and textures, putting up quite a show for starters. Although rather simplistic, the design is pretty intuitive, with most effort reduced to pressing the Next button a few times.

There aren’t a lot of options to choose from or configure. What’s more, you don’t need to put much thought in the ones at your disposal, making it easy for everyone to accommodate and start looking for deleted files.

On the other hand, functionality is greatly eclipsed by the clean visuals. The first step in the process asks you to select the drive to scan, with a refresh button in case you just decided to connect a removable drive. Corresponding info is shown in a side panel.

After drive selection comes a step with little to no functionality other than to act as a teaser for the Pro version. The Personal Edition is only capable of performing a quick scan, and only on some specific types of files, without any kind of control over them.

Finally getting to the results page might leave you a little surprised, or more likely disappointed. This is mostly because of the scan type, which overlooks many areas and clusters, resulting in a blank list far too often. In case you do happen to find some deleted files, these are well-organized in a table that displays name, location, size, type, date, and condition.

Files can be restored all-together by selecting the whole list at the press of a button. Sadly, if the list is too abundant, you need to carefully analyze it, because of the lack of a search engine for quick identification.

All things considered, eDATA Unerase Personal Edition grabs your attention with shiny visuals right from the start, in an attempt to make you overlook the poor functionality under the hood. However, if you ever tried a similar application you’re sure not to fall for its tricks, which are not intended, and drag functionality all the way to the bottom. Sadly, your files remain lost somewhere in disk clusters after the scan process is complete.