Stellar Data Recovery Software Review

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Review Provided by : Simple Data Recovery

Losing important files to accidental deletion can be a horrible experience. Thankfully, when files are deleted they are generally not gone from your hard disk or other storage media, and there are ways to recover your data and multimedia files.

When files are deleted they aren't really "Deleted" as most people think they are. The only thing that really gets deleted is the physical file location information in the file system (think of the file system as the table of contents for your drive). The area where the file was stored is also marked as open space that is able to be written over. Recovering files involves finding that data and re-marking it in the file system.

This is where programs like Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery come into play. It's an easy to use, yet powerful tool that will help scan your storage media for deleted files and then restore them.

Program Basics Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Review

Stellar Windows Data Recovery is a feature rich program that offers several scan levels to find deleted data as well as tools to help you back up partitions and duplicate hard disk data.

Interface

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery has a fairly simple to use interface with large graphical buttons and quick explanations of all the features in a tool tip area at the bottom of the program. I found the interface to be a touch confusing at first, but after a few minutes navigating around I became comfortable with the program.

Ease Of Use

Stellar Windows Data Recovery should be simple enough for most people to use, regardless of their computer expertise. Of course, it's definitely a prerequisite to be able to understand how to use the Windows operating systme and navigate to find files in Windows.

Stellar provides a 24 hour phone number you can call if you run into any difficulties.

Features Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Review

Data Scan

Stellar Phoenix is chock full of features to help you with various data recovery tasks. One great thing about this program is that the scan speeds are generally pretty fast as compared to other similar software tools. Basic scans for lost and deleted files include quick and full scans, as well as a deeper search for formatted and lost files. When searching for files I had deleted off of a USB storage stick, I had to use the highest level Formatted/Lost file search to find them, but they were there.

Support for FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 based partitions and volumes is standard in Stellar Phoenix 4.1, the latest version. The most powerful scan - the raw data recovery feature - allows you to scan a specific region of a disk, and also search for various file types. This is for advanced users.

Email And Photo Recovery

Recovery of almost all types of different camera file formats is supported with this program, making it easy to recover lost images. The only negative was that for some reason the program didn't offer a photo preview for images.

Stellar Phoenix also has a good email recovery feature that supports Outlook and Outlook Express .PST and .DBX files.

Backup Utilities

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery offers users two good backup utilities. Users are able to clone a hard disk, and also create a drive image. These are pretty basic but offer a level of file protection that lots of other consumer data recovery products don't.

Conclusions Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Review

Overall Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a very robust program that will help you get most of your deleted data back without a lot of technical knowledge. I liked the fact that this company provides 24 hour phone support for all their products. They are a leading data recovery company that has been around for a while, and also offer the option to send your storage media in to their class 100 clean room facility in order for their technicians to perform more hands on data recovery for damaged and broken data storage.