Stellar Data Recovery v8 Professional Free Giveaway

Stellar Windows Data Recovery v8 Professional is a solid option to salvage lost or deleted files from a hard drive, especially if you’re a less tech-savvy kind of user. But its higher price and relatively basic scanning options may not be the best for more extreme users who demand the most out of their recovery suite.

So, is this software worth the price of entry, or can you get everything you need out of it from the free version alone? Read on in our Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Professional review to find out!

However, data recovery is often hit or miss, and JP came to the same conclusion after testing dozens of file recovery programs. Some are freeware, some are commercial software like Stellar Photo Recovery. We thus suggest you try out free options like PhotoRec and Recuva first. If they fail to retrieve your files, go for Stellar Photo Recovery, but be sure to start with the trial before making any purchase.

Pros / The program recovered 100 percent of raster files.
Cons / It does not support Polaroid raw files.
Verdict / Stellar is easy to use for people of any skill level, and its solid vector and raster recovery rates make it a sure bet if you’ve lost those types of files.

Design/User Experience

After the product was registered we were taken to the main home screen of the app, which displays seven different boxes you can check depending on the type of file you’re planning to recover. These options include:

• Office Documents
• Folders
• Emails
• Photos
• Audio
• Videos
• Or the option to look for “All Data”, which groups all the previously mentioned categories into a single master-scan of the entire drive.

Every aspect of the user experience in Stellar Phoenix is meant to be as user-friendly and foolproof as possible, boiling down what can sometimes be a complicated technical process down into its most essential parts so they’re easily understood.
Although I generally appreciate when a company can make more complex maintenance tasks easy for the layman user, I have to admit that the process from the home screen to starting a scan may have been a bit too easy.

Features

For the price, you actually get a large number of features out of Stellar’s Phoenix Windows Data Recovery v7 Professional, several of which aren’t even in the realm of data recovery but are still equally useful nonetheless:

• Operating systems: Windows, OSX, Linux, Virtual Machines
• FAT, ExFAT, and NTFS file system recovery
• CD/DVD recovery
• RAW drive recovery
• Partition recovery, creation, and management
• Email recovery from MS Outlook and Outlook Express

Performance

To test Stellar Phoenix’s data recovery capabilities, we stored (and deleted) five different file types ((*.exe, *.jpeg, *.mp3, *.zip, and *.txt) to see how it could recover data from an SSD, an HDD, and a USB flash drive.

For the first test, I ran a basic scan on my 1TB Seagate 7200RPM to see what it could pull up. We recorded the length of how long the first scan took on our test system, which features a 7th-gen Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz processor (overclocked to 5.1GHz on closed-loop liquid cooling), 16GB of DDR4-3000MHz RAM, a 256GB m.2 SSD, a 1TB HDD, and NVIDIA GTX 1070 GPU. It took just short of 1 minute 50 seconds from the moment we turned on the quick scan until it was finished, which, considering it was scanning the HDD, is actually quite impressive unto itself. On the SSD side of things times were even faster for quick scan, taking just around a minute before we were able to sort through all the returned results.

Customer Support

Stella Data Recovery maintains an extensive knowledgebase which answers most any basic questions you might have about the service or how it works, but for more complex issues Stellar products are supported by the company’s “24/5” helpline, which lets you call at any hour of the day, Monday through Friday each week.

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