File Recovery Software

 

This File Recovery software recovers deleted or formatted files from Windows-based systems without causing any modifications to the storage media. Few of its salient features are:

 

• Recovers deleted file(s) from any type of file deletion scenario
• Restores all types of deleted files that are supported by Windows-based memory devices
• Works for any storage media including hard drives, external hard drives, memory cards, USB drives, etc
• Supports file recovery from different file systems including FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, etc
• Restores deleted email messages from MS Outlook and Outlook Express
• Retrieves deleted temporary files created by applications such as MS Word, MS Excel, etc
• Saves the scan information to let you resume the recovery operation later on
• Supports localized and long file names during file recovery
• Lets you filter the scanning process to scan for specific file types
• Masks the scanned result to restructure the file tree according to the specified file type
• Allows you to create the clone of the hard drive if the hard drive is showing signs of corruption
• Takes the image(s) of the hard drive so that it can be used in data loss situations.
• Displays the SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis Reporting Technology) attributes to provide the status of the hard drive
• Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000

 

Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0 uses extremely sophisticated scanning algorithms to recover deleted files. To do this, you need to 'Select' the recovery type and the media from which you have lost the files. After selecting the media, the application 'Scans' it and lists the deleted files in a 3-pane tree structure for you to see the preview. You can 'Save' the recoverable files to any location of your choice.

 

Recovery Tab:

Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0 provides different Deleted File Recovery options in the form of tabs. These tabs include Deleted File Recovery, Email Recovery, Resume Recovery, and Advance Options.

 

Deleted File Recovery: The Deleted File Recovery tab of Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0 includes two options- Quick Recovery and Advance Recovery. Both these options are different as they use different scanning procedures.

 

• Quick Recovery: This option performs quick scan of selected storage media. It enables you to select only one volume at a time. Scanning through this method is efficient and quick.
• Advanced Recovery: This option can thoroughly scan the selected hard drive partition. The scanning process in this method is slow, but more effective to Recover Deleted Files. You will find all the deleted files using this options.

 

Email Recovery: This tab of Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0 enables you to recover deleted emails supported by Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook email clients. This tab includes two options:

 

• Microsoft Outlook Email Recovery: Use this option to recover deleted emails from PST (Personal Storage) file of Microsoft Outlook. It will show all recoverable emails in tree format. You can save recovered emails in either .pst file or individual .msg or .eml file.
• Outlook Express Email Recovery: Use this option to recover deleted emails from DBX (Outlook Express Data File) file. After scanning the file, this File Recovery Software will list all emails in tree format. You can save these emails as an individual .eml file.

 

Resume Recovery: This tab of Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0 allows you restart recovery either using image file or scan information file. Both of these files are saved in the form of .img file. Select the .img file to resume recovery at any point. If the scan is incomplete, only those files would be recovered that are included in scan process. To recover rest of the files, rescan the drive.

 

Advance Options: This tab of Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0 includes three options: Raw Recovery, Drive Imaging, and Drive Status.

 

Raw Recovery: Use this feature to perform signature based search on entire hard drive volume, USB drive, CD, DVD, or any other storage media to Recover Deleted Files. This option is helpful to recover data from Raw hard drive, which has no file system or the file system is severely damaged. Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0 allows you to either select the source drive or define region to scan. You can not select region from disk partition, if you are performing Raw recovery for selected Windows partition.

 

This Deleted File Recovery software has a long list of supported files names for Raw Recovery. If you can not find required file type, you can add it. While adding a file type, you need to provide software name, size, file extension, and header information of the file.

 

Drive Imaging: This option includes two features- Create Image and Clone Disk.

 

• Create Image: Using this feature of Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0, you can create image of hard drive, hard drive volume, CD, DVD, USB drive, and selected region of any of these storage media. The disk image is saved in the form of .img file. The size of .img file is same as the size of source. Image file can be used to resume recovery later. The image files of DVD and CD can only be used to perform Raw Recovery.
• Clone Disk: Using this option of Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0, you can create exact replica of hard drive on another drive. The size of destination drive must be equal to or larger than the source drive. It copies all data, applications, operating system, and hard drive structure on the destination drive.

 

Drive Status: This option displays information of attached hard drive The Drive Status box lists model number, size, serial number, status, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. feature and firmware revision number. Additionally, S.M.A.R.T. information is also displayed in S.M.A.R.T. information box. Drive Information box displays Total Sectors, Sectors per track, Number of Cylinders, and Number of heads on hard drive. Information about existing hard drive partitions is displayed in Volume Information box.

 

Additional Features:

 

In addition to above Deleted File Recovery options, the software also provides Save Scan, Find File, File Mask and File Filter like features to make the recovery process more easy.

 

• Save Scan: Allows to save the scan information of hard drive in .img file. You can use .img file to restart recovery later.
• Find File: Helps you to search required files in the recovery tree on the basis of either file extension or file name.
• File Mask: Regenerates the recovery tree on the basis of file signatures, defined in File Mask dialog box.
• File Filter: Allows you to include or exclude specific file types, while transferring data to destination drive for final recovery.

 

To know more about Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus 4.0, download and use its free demo version. The demo version facilitates you to list and preview recoverable files.

 

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