Glarysoft is giving away a program called "Amazing Dr. Recovery 3.1" on their web site at:
Giveaway - Glarysoft

The download is a .ZIP file of about 4.5 Megabytes.
You unzip it to create a folder that contains a Glarysoft installation program and a ReadMe file. The Glarysoft installation program connects to the internet and installs the file recovery program on your computer. The ReadMe file will have the activation key. To activate the program, CTRL-C copy the activation code and click on the "Activate" link in the opened file recovery program. The program will ask for the activation key. CTRL-V paste the activation code in. The program will respond to tell you if the activation was successful.

I used this Amazing Dr. Recovery 3.1 on my USB drive with the corrupted FAT table, and it successfully found and recovered all of the files on that USB drive.

On 5/14/2014 8:34 PM, nestork wrote:

Glarysoft is giving away a program called "Amazing Dr. Recovery 3.1"
on their web site at: 'Giveaway - Glarysoft'
(http://giveaway.glarysoft.com/)

The download is a .ZIP file of about 4.5 Megabytes. You unzip it to
create a folder that contains a Glarysoft installation program and a
ReadMe file. The Glarysoft installation program connects to the
internet and installs the file recovery program on your computer. The
ReadMe file will have the activation key. To activate the program,
CTRL-C copy the activation code and click on the "Activate" link in
the opened file recovery program. The program will ask for the
activation key. CTRL-V paste the activation code in. The program
will respond to tell you if the activation was successful.

I used this Amazing Dr. Recovery 3.1 on my USB drive with the
corrupted FAT table, and it successfully found and recovered all of
the files on that USB drive.

I get all sorts of software from the Glarysoft giveaway site and I also
get software from Giveaway Of The Day. I've never gotten a virus or any
malware from those sites. Glarysoft also produces Glary Utilities in a
free version and a paid version. There are all sorts of free software
sites on The Web but these two sites are the ones I use to get
commercial software that one would normally have to pay for. All sorts
of software is available from them at no cost for a 24 hour period. If
you miss getting some software that you would really like to have, keep
an eye on the sites making sure you check them every day. ^_^

http://giveaway.glarysoft.com/

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

TDD

Thanks, I have both of those web pages bookmarked.

The Give Away of the Day website:

Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. Today: Aidfile Data Recovery 3.6.5.8 - Aidfile recovery software is an easy-to-use and powerful hard disk data recovery tool specialized in recovering files from corrupted partition ...

is giving away Aid File Data Recovery 3.6.5.8 today.

You have to both download the installation program and install it.

There are two things I don't like he

1. About the web site:
This site has all kinds of other downloads offered, so you have to be careful on which link you click on to get the giveaway. Otherwise you get some freeware that wants to dump a bunch of garbage on your computer, like changing your default search engine and putting needless toolbars on your web browser. As long as you're careful on what you click on, it's OK.

2. About the AID File Data Recovery program:
I don't like the fact that it doesn't give you a registration key. Once you unzip the downloaded file, there's a file with a key icon that you click on to activate the full blown version of the software. That program simply tells you that the activation was successful, but it doesn't give you an alphanumeric code that you can use in future to activate the full blown version repeatedly. So, if you ever have to format your hard drive for some reason, then the next time you install this program, you're back to the trial version, not the full blown version.

I tried using this program with a USB memory drive that I know has a corrupted file allocation table, and it found all of the files I had stored on that drive.

I've become disillusioned with this Glary - Giveaway site.

The problem is this:
The site does not give away the installation program itself.
You click on an installation icon that shows up in the downloaded files, and that installation icon downloads the program from Glary's web site onto your computer.
So, if in future you have to reformat your computer's hard disk and reload your software, you've lost the programs downloaded onto your computer from the Glary site.
That's because if you try to use that installation program again, it tells you that the time to install the program has expired and to return to the Glary site for new programs.
And, you can't simply copy the folder the files were downloaded and paste them into your computer's C:\Program Files folder because Windows requires the program be installed properly, not just copied into the Program Files folder. If you do that, you get a message saying the program "didn't initialize properly", which basically means it needs to be reinstalled...using the installation program you don't have available to you anymore.

For someone like me, who reformats their surfing computer hard drive at least once per year, these free program giveaways are just a tease. They let you use the program long enough to evaluate it, but they don't give you the capability of re-installing it, or installing it to another computer if you have more than one. It's that inability to re-install the program if you have to reformat your hard drive that I'm most upset with.

On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 18:36:23 +0200, nestork
wrote:

I've become disillusioned with this Glary - Giveaway site.

I've mentioned before these sites are not what they seem. They set the
bait, reel you in and finally set the hook. Nothing is free. Not even
freedom. There is always a cost sooner or later.

| I've become disillusioned with this Glary - Giveaway site.
|
| The problem is this:
| The site does not give away the installation program itself.

That's become a common problem with a lot of software.
In this case, though, there may be a workaround. If you
look at the source code you'll see near the top there's a
link to the actual file:

http://giveawayfile.glarysoft.com/So...esizerv5.2.zip

I found it because the ID of the download button is
"download" and there was a function "#download".
There's also an autodownload function with the same
link. The download is a ZIP with an installer of about
4 MB inside. (At least I assume it's the installer. I didn't
run it.) You then have to go register today, though,
so it's not clear whether you'll be able to save your
activation code and installer for future use.

I'd also recommend IrfanView, though. It's very good
and it's compact. If you can deal with the disorganized
menu you can almost use it as a fullscale image editor.

Image editing is a difficult issue, I think. There are lots
of options and they span a large range of functionality
and sophistication. If you really want to do image editing
then IrfanView is limited, but mostly just because it just
doesn't have a convenient interface, like you'd get
with Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.
On the other hand, if all you want is batch resizing,
without and sharpen, brighten, crop, etc then there
are probably lots of free tools to do that.