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- Pros
High-powered, fast, full-featured file recovery. Exceptionally lucid and helpful interface. In-app previews of recovered files. Recovers from CD/DVD drives. Creates disk image. Securely wipes data.
- Cons
Recovers slightly fewer deleted files than OnTrack or Prosoft's products.
- Bottom Line
For beginners and non-technical users, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the obvious first choice among data recovery software. A beautifully designed, efficient interface makes the program a pleasure to use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery lives up to its name, with a stellar interface design and the power to bring files back to life like a self-regenerating phoenix. Of all the data recovery software we have tested, it has by far the most usable design and is among the top performers when it comes to the number of files recovered. Everything about Stellar Phoenix is smooth as silk, and it shares our Editors' Choice award with OnTrack EasyRecovery, which is slightly more powerful, but far more difficult to use effectively.
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I tested Stellar Phoenix's $99 Professional version, which works with FAT, ExFAT, and NTFS disks. A $299 Technician version adds support for remote data recovery and RAID systems. The $59 Home version lacks the ability to make image files from hard disks or recover whole partitions. Mac users can choose the Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery, for $99; more on the Mac version below.
Getting Started
The Stellar Phoenix software starts by presenting a spacious screen that asks you what to recover, and offers options to recover all data—meaning all files, folders, documents, emails, and anything else—or only documents, the contents of specific folders, emails, or photos, audio, or video files. By default, every document type is selected for recovery, but you can narrow the search to your preferences. The next screen displays a Windows Explorer-style menu of your common locations, like your desktop or Documents folder, plus your disk drives.
You can select an option to recover a lost disk partition. Another option makes a disk image from the physical drive that you're trying to recover and attempts to recover files from the disk image—you'll want to use this feature if you're working with a drive that's physically failing, and you don't want to stress the physical disk more than you need to. The menu clearly distinguishes hard disks from flash drives, and it lets you select a deep scan that looks at every sector of the disk for the characteristic signatures of different file types.
Previews
As with all other data recovery software, Stellar Phoenix's deep-scan option can recover the extension of a file, but not its original name, so you'll have to depend on the preview screen to show you exactly which file you're recovering—and Stellar Phoenix's preview is fast and clear. Unlike rival programs, Stellar Phoenix tries to supply at least some additional information that can help you identify your files.
When it detects a graphics file, it assigns an arbitrary filename that includes the dimensions of the image, for example, '1326x1190-12176.png.' (The 12176 is an arbitrary number.) If you know that you're looking for a large file, the dimensions can help you find it. When you're ready to save recoverable files to disk, you can either right-click on an individual file and select Recover from the menu, or select a number of files and click on a button that saves them all.
Performance
I tested Stellar Phoenix first with a traditional spinning hard drive on which I had deleted six files and then emptied the Recycle Bin. The app needed about 10 seconds to scan the disk and find all six deleted files. Because there were hundreds of other deleted files on the disk, I had to search by name for one of the files I was looking for, but as soon as I found it, I could click on its folder and find all the other files I needed. Stellar Phoenix's preview pane confirmed that the files were the ones I was looking for, and a few clicks later, I had recovered them all to disk. It isn't often that a utility app is a pleasure to use, but this one is.
I also told Stellar Phoenix to perform a deep scan on my reformatted USB flash drive, and it displayed an elegant menu showing its progress. Don't be disturbed by the pessimistic time estimates on the software's menu; at one point, it told me it would need 44 hours to complete the deep scan of our drive, though in fact it finished the full scan in less than two minutes—and found and recovered 11 out of the 12 deleted files on the drive, missing only one of two deleted PDF documents. Ontrack EasyRecovery, in contrast, found all of our deleted files. (So did ProSoft Data Rescue PC4, but ProSoft identifed the two Word files as ZIP archives, so they were effectively invisible and inaccessible to almost all users.)
As expected, Stellar Phoenix—like all other recovery software—couldn't recover any files I wanted to retrieve from a solid-state drive (SSD). I tested by copying a half-dozen document and graphic files to a partition, then deleting them, and then emptying the Recycle Bin. Stellar Phoenix claimed to find all these files in a quick scan, but when I told the app to recover them, the resulting files were corrupt and unusable. If you're trying to recover lost files from an SSD, your best bet is to send in the drive to an expensivere a dual-platform household, you can use Stellar Phoenix for all your data receovery needs. There's something to be said for not having to learn a completely different interface and set of software for each of your OSes, after all. That said, while Stellar Phoenix Mac Data recovery is certainly a very good product, with an excellent interface, it couldn't quite match Alsoft DiscWarrior when it comes to the ability to recover files and rebuild and repair directories under macOS.
All's Not Lost
When you're trying to recover lost files, you're likely to feel anxious and harried—but Stellar Phoenix's beautifully lucid and uncluttered menu system is a major stress-reducer. It easily shares our Editors' Choice award with Ontrack EasyRecovery. Though Ontrack had a better file-recovery record in our tests than Stellar Phoenix, it was far more difficult to use. Technicians and other professionals should probably choose Ontrack, but everyone else should have a copy of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery ready to rescue lost files when needed.
Once you've (hopefully) recovered your lost data, your next concern should probably be doing your best to ensure that you never lose another file again. While nothing is ever guaranteed, you can go a long way toward protecting yourself with backup software. For extra piece of mind, you may also consider backing up your data to the cloud, so that even a disaster that takes out all your local hardware won't destroy your data. For this, you'll want to use an online backup service.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery
Bottom Line: For beginners and non-technical users, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the obvious first choice among data recovery software. A beautifully designed, efficient interface makes the program a pleasure to use.
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Utilities / File & Disk Management
Kernel Tape Data Recovery Software - 4.02 |
Kernel for Tape recovery software recovers data from all types of corrupted, damaged tapes cartridges such as DLT, AIT, LTO, DAT tapes and formats.
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| | Rating: | | Current Version: | 4.02 | | Release Date: | May 31, 2010 | | License: | Shareware | | Price: | $299 | | Downloads: | 83 |
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Kernel for Tape is efficient tape data recovery software that retrieves data from erased tape drives, damaged tape header. It is helpful in broken or de-spooled backup tapes as it provides you with all lost, damaged, deleted tape data. It recovers data from all types of corrupted, damaged tapes cartridges such as DLT, AIT, LTO, DAT tapes and formats. Recursive scanning is done by Tape recovery software on damaged tape and retrieves the lost data. After the complete scanning the data found in the damaged tape is stored in a image file and the found files and folders are displayed in a tree like structure from where you can easily copy your recovered files to a user specified location.
Software is fast, simple and easy to use Tape data recovery software, which helps you to recover your lost data and files in minutes in case of tape corruption and hence supports your business continuity. | | Software Requirements: | | Pentium II 400 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 10 MB | | This software is designed to run on the following operating systems: | | Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 2000 | | Kernel Tape Data Recovery Software Keywords: | | Tape Recovery, Tape Recovery Software, Data Recovery Tape, Dlt Tape Recovery, Ait Tape Recovery, Lto Tape Recovery, Corrupt Tape Data Recovery, Broken Tape Recovery, Recover Corrupt Tape, Recover Tape Data | | Download Links of Kernel Tape Data Recovery Software 4.02: | - Kernel Tape Data Recovery Software - 4.02 (File Size: 1013.8 KB)
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