PANTERASoft JPG Recovery

Removable disk drives can easily become corrupt, either due to malicious activities, or too many read/write operations. It can be extremely frustrating to want to transfer your collection of photos from an external storage device, only to find they’re not there. However, applications like PANTERASoft JPG Recovery rely on specialized mechanisms to read and attempt to recover pictures even from damaged drives.

The application is capable of targeting both NTFS and FAT file systems, which can apply to either fixed or removable drives. These are all shown in a drop-down menu, and is the first step in an attempt to recover your lost photos. In case a drive doesn’t appear on the list, or you just decided to plug one in, there’s a refresh button to help you out.

You’re taken through a wizard-driven process until the end, and there’s the possibility to revisit any step, since they’re all stored in different tabs. After selecting the drive, the scan process needs to be initiated, and it can take some time, depending on the size and health status of the drive. The scan section shows overall progress in percentage, and handled sectors, while files are shown in a list in real time, as detected.

There’s no prompt to let you know that scanning is complete, so you need to keep an eye on the progress indicator, or simply move forward when the stop button grays out. Before recovery, you have the chance to browse through the list of detected items, with options to select only those you need, with a preview option to help with the decision.

What’s left is to decide where to save pictures, and this is simply done by selecting a location from your computer or external drive. Recovery takes only a little while, but there aren’t any options to change name, convert to a different format, or replace any existing elements in the destination folder.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that PANTERASoft JPG Recovery is a handy application that wants to help you recover images you accidentally removed, or can’t grab from a damaged disk drive. Both NTFS and FAT file systems can be targeted, and after waiting some time for the scan process to finish, recovering them is a walk in the park.