A drive died. You still know exactly what was on it.
Drives fail. But if GetFerret cataloged it, you keep the full record of what lived there: names, folders, sizes, dates, even thumbnails. So you know precisely what to re-source, re-shoot, or restore from a backup.
The drive will not mount. The clicking sound, or the spinning wheel that never stops. The worst part is not just the loss, it is not even knowing what you lost. Which projects? Which finals? What do you tell the client? GetFerret cannot bring a dead drive back, but it makes sure you are never in the dark about what was on it.
The files are gone. The record isn't.
Once GetFerret has cataloged a drive, its full contents live safely in your local Warren, independent of the drive itself. If the drive dies, you still hold the complete manifest.
A complete manifest of what was lost
Every file name, folder, size and date the drive held, still searchable after it fails. Hand a client an exact list of what needs re-delivering, instead of guessing.
See what you lost
Thumbnails cataloged from photos and videos stay in the Warren, so you can actually look at what was on a drive that no longer mounts.
Find it somewhere else
Cross-drive search shows if the same file, verified by content, is sitting safe on another drive. Often the "lost" file is already on a backup, and GetFerret points you to it.
Restore from a verified backup
Because GetFerret also makes 1-to-1 verified backups, the best recovery is the one you set up before the failure. Catalog and back up now, and a dead drive becomes an afternoon, not a catastrophe.
GetFerret is not data-recovery software.
It does not undelete files or pull bytes off a failing disk, that is a different kind of tool. What GetFerret does is make sure a drive failure never means losing track of what you had, and that you always have a verified backup and an exact record to recover from. The best time to catalog and back up a drive is while it still works.
Catch the next dying drive before it takes your files.
A drive rarely warns you before it goes. Ferret keeps a fingerprint of every file it catalogs and re-checks over time, flagging the exact files that no longer match their known-good copy, and the ones that live in only one place, so you can rescue them while you still can.
Never wonder what was on a dead drive again.
Download GetFerret and start finding files across every drive you own, even the ones sitting unplugged in a drawer. Free 14-day trial, then $49 once.