![]() Talking about installing a new OS (Operating System), this also could have saved me some time. One of the reasons I stopped using local mail clients years ago is because I would forget to copy the PST file, then I would delete the partition and install a new OS and I would lose everything. Stellar Phoenix gives you the options to not only restore to a local drive, but it allows you to recovery to an FTP and even compresses the files you are restoring, that is a great feature.Īnother great feature this software provides is allow you to recovery emails from PST files from Microsoft Outlook and DBX files from Outlook Express. I selected a local folder, but it also gives you options I have never seen before. When you click the “Recover” button you are prompted with a choice to where to restore the files to. I only selected 1 file type, TIF to only recovery a little bit the real recovery will be later on in the review for the data. It did take some time but it recovered 7.48GB worth of pictures, 8386 files. In this test I am scanning the SD card on my camera. The time it takes though is not fully due to the intensity of the scan, a lot of it has to do with the speed of the media you are trying to recovery. Though by less it might be only seconds, because it takes a long time but that’s OK, you want it to take as long as it wants to because you want these pictures or videos back, I get it. A photo or video is data this is just limiting the search though I guess better because it would take less time. The Photo Recovery is something many people would like, though a little gimmicky for me. This might be one of the least used features of the suite, so I will skip to the next. This is more for the times when you are writing a disc and maybe the lights go out or the drive fails, it will let you recover that sort of data, it will not let you restore physically broken discs that your disc drive cannot read, I don’t know why but I tried it, magic did not happen. This was made on a 1 X CD-R drive, it was either a TDK or a Maxell drive, and man it was slow. Though it still worked, supposedly CD’s were supposed to have lost data after many years, I got 17 years so far and it’s still working. I wanted to try my very first CD written, a Maxell 650Meg CD back in 1998. Then you are met with the menu of features it providesĭrive Recovery, as implied lets you recover entire drive, my needed option currently, but I will come back to this.įor “CD DVD Recovery” right when you pop in a piece of media it starts scanning the disc No confusing prompts, though some asking for where you would like the shortcuts placed, but I just click Next anyway then Finish.Īfter clicking Finish, the program starts loading I looked for different pieces of software, making sure that the first time was the successful one that would return what was rightfully mine, and not have any failed attempts, so I came across Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery.Ĭlicking on the EXE, you get all the Next prompts and I agree prompts you would normally expect.Ī few seconds later and you are done. This drive held so many wonders and years of work and now it was all gone… It’s OK we can rebuild it, bigger, better and faster, well maybe not faster but you get the point. I had 99.1Gigs of very important data, documents, overclocks, reviews builds, personal keys, photo’s, video’s, ISO’s and more, There is more than 1 test done here, but I wanted to give you an example. Tons of data all gone in one mistaken click (well, it might have been 2 or 3 clicks, but still). The reason I am actually reviewing this is because during the video where I installing Windows 10 from, I wiped out one of my drives and killed my data, it was only a 64Gig SSD, but I had 51.5 gigs on it of information I was not ready to get rid of, I deleted the partition. Email Recovery (Outlook Express and MS Outlook).External, SD card, USB, Firewire, Thunderbolt, eSATA, etc…).Lost/Formatted/Deleted Volume/Partition/File Recovery.Recovery solutions usually only recovery drives, nothing more. Some of you are reading the “Windows” part in the title but you will be surprised to know that you can restore data from Windows (XP all the way to 10), Linux, UNIX and Mac systems but there is a catch, you can read about the catch later in this article. This software will help you during these times because you never know when it will happen to you, if it hasn’t already. ![]() From that PC to my current PC I have deleted TONS of files, some on purpose too but I have lost so many files as well, sometimes entire partitions. I have been using computers since I was 13 years old on my IBM XT 8086, yup no hard drive just 2 x 5.25’ floppy drives. This post contains affiliate links, most which go to Amazon and are Geo-Affiliate links to nearest Amazon store.
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