Recover your deleted files with Stellar Phoenix data recovery software

August 25th, 2009 |Ajay M | 2,427 views | Application, Featured, Reviews | Comments (31)

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Have you ever come across situations when you keep on looking for that important power point presentation you prepared for your client or your baby’s birth day videos or the pictures of your summer trip?? But you can not locate those precious files in your PC and later remember that while cleaning your hard drive you might have inadvertently deleted those. You try all possible ways to get those files, looked for your back up but oh..you have never worried to take a backup. You contacted tech support, but how on the earth they can help you in getting back those deleted files. Do not worry you still have an option left to get back all those lost files, that is by using a data recovery program.

Windows or any other operating systems does not have built in functionality to recover any deleted files. If you are thinking that doing a system restore or system recovery you can get back those precious files, you are wrong. As system restore and system recovery serve a completely different purpose. So the only way you can recover your deleted files is by using a data recovery program. There are a host of data recovery programs available in the market and all of them promise a lot of features and looks equally competitive when you see them as a user perspective. Hence it becomes very difficult to make a choice. Let me help you here and provide an in depth review of a feature rich well known data recovery program called Stellar Phoenix data recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery software is a powerful data recovery application to recover lost, deleted, or corrupted data, hard drive partitions, photos, audios and videos in almost all logical data loss scenarios. Incorporated with striking set of elements like disk cloning, e-mail recovery and drive status, the software supports FAT32, VFAT and NTFS file systems.

Features of Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery:

1. It can recover deleted files, photos, videos and e-mails.

2. It can recover lost and formatted logical drives and partitions.

3. Can recover data from hard drive and USB drive and also support Raw Recovery from CD and USB drives.

4. Offers 2 types of scanning e.g Quick scan and deep scan offering advanced scanning methods to recover deleted files.

5. It offers cloning as well as disk imaging. With the help of cloning you can create an identical copy of your hard drive. Imaging option creates an image of hard drive even if it has bad sectors.

6. It offers a comprehensive hard drive status for all volumes and a much better scan disk utility than the one built-in to Windows.

7. Supports recovery of data from PCs which are not booting with the help of a bootable CD which can be obtained upon request.

8. Can be used with a wide range of Windows version, starting from Windows 2000 to Windows 7 RC1. I am currently using this program with Windows 7 RC1.

9. It offers you 30 days money back guarantee.

The complete list of features of the Stellar Phoenix data recovery program is available in the developer’s website.

This program also comes as a free demo version, which offers you to view the files that can be recovered. So if you really want to get those files back you can go ahead and purchase it.

Installation:

The installation of the program is very easy. In order to install, first download Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery program and save it on desktop.

Double click on the downloaded file StellarPhoenixWindowsDataRecovery-Setup and proceed with the installation wizard.

Once it is installed, you need to activate if you have purchased it. You might have received a license key which can be used to activate the full version. Activation can be done over the Internet or by e-mail or by sending the license key to stellar info system for manual activation. If your PC is connected to Internet then activation/registration over the Internet is the easiest method.

To activate it over Internet, start the stellar data recovery program and click on the i icon at the top left. Click on Register button, it will check for Internet connection and show you the registration wizard and you should see a window like this:

Put the serial number received through e-mail and click Next. It will be connected to the registration server and it will be registered. Click on Finish.

Usage:

The usage of the Stellar data recovery program is not limited to a single task or two, but it provides many functionality as discussed in the features section. Here let me take you through some important usages:

Recover data :

In order to start recovering data, open the stellar data recovery program by double clicking on the desktop icon and under data recovery section on the main screen you will see various options like Quick recovery, deleted File recovery, Formatted Lost files/folders recovery and Search Lost volumes. Each of these option serve a specific purpose. Mouse over individual option and you will see the task performed by that option.

Recover E-mails:

If you are looking for recovering Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook mails from a corrupted pst or dbx file, click on E-mail recovery on the main screen and click on appropriate option. For example clicking on Microsoft Outlook E-mail recovery will take you to the following screen:

Here you need to specify the location of the .pst file or let the program search for the pst file. Leave the other options untouched and click on Start scan. It will show all folders and emails stored in the recovered .pst file.

Checking drive status and scan disk:

To check the status of hard drive, open Stellar Phoenix data recovery program and click on Advance options tab. Click on Drive status option and you will see the drive status window.

This screen will show all information pertaining to the hard drive. In order to scan the drive to check for bad blocks, click on Scan disk at the bottom right corner of the screen.

Cloning and Imaging:

In the advance options tab, click on Drive Imaging option and it will show Create Image and Clone Disk options. Image can be created for an entire hard drive or a volume, CD, DVD or thumb drive. Image files of CD and DVD can be used for RAW recovery option. You can even specify a region for which you want to create an image.

Disk cloning is used to create an exact copy of the hard drive. This will take exactly the same size as the hard drive. So you need to have enough storage space available on an external hard drive or an internal drive to store the clone. You need to specify both source and target drive in the clone disk option window.

The stellar phoenix data recovery program is a worth investment and it will give value for your money. So you will never have fear of loosing anything in your PC.

Comment by Martin Crow on 27 August 2009:

I had used this software in past when I lost all of my photo’s from D drive. I request for help in one forum and I found This software from there. Firstly I had tried Trial version of this software and after confirming that I can recover all of my photo’s I buy this software and get all of my photo’s as it is . I had buy the old version But this is better one.

Great software, Great Features….

Comment by Xbox Avatar on 27 August 2009:

This kind of software is great if you already have it installed and you know straight away that you have deleted the item. Unfortunately most of the people I see that have deleted files and want to recover them do not have any software like this installed, and they deleted the files a few days/weeks ago and have added new files to the computer since – meaning the chances of recovering the files are slim to none.

Comment by Ajay M on 28 August 2009:

No, you do not need this software pre-installed. As I installed it almost after 30 days of loosing an important file and you know I recovered it.

Comment by Bob Beckett on 28 August 2009:

Excellent Post. I would love to own a software which keeps track of the data I deleted and could recover later on.

Comment by Smith on 31 August 2009:

I haven’t used this software but i have used Datarecoveryman.com service in my area. This was also good service to recover files…

Comment by Alex on 1 September 2009:

If it really does all the above mentioned, than this software is a real problem solver. Can anyone tell me what’s the price? many thanks

Comment by Vadim Uvazhny on 1 September 2009:

One time I tried to recover some deleted pictures, but when I done that the pictures didn’t open (.

Comment by Kids Chairs on 1 September 2009:

This is great! I always thought that once it’s deleted and your trash bin is cleared out that it is gone forever. I wish I had known about this years ago.

I’m going to have to pick this up.

Thank you.

Comment by swap council on 2 September 2009:

Stellar offers you data recovery tools for the major operating systems which recover and restore the data in the original format. These software have the great and unique capability to end up at complete and valuable disk recovery.

Comment by Tech-Freak Stuff on 2 September 2009:

Appears to be a good Software! Need to try it. I wil let you know how it works for me.

Comment by Kashif on 2 September 2009:

OnTrack data recovery tool also works quite well. Will try this tool too and see how well it performs.

Comment by Ajay M on 3 September 2009:

You can visit their website to get idea about latest pricing and any offer they are running.

Comment by Need For Speed on 5 September 2009:

It is a useful piece of software that has helped me to save a file which was essential to me, the company and many others. I am very thankful this is available!

Comment by Bijan Anjomi on 9 September 2009:

thank you for this helpful and informative post

Comment by VHwriter on 10 September 2009:

Ooh interesting. I should get this software! I seldom delete important files, but I need this just in case. Thanks.

Comment by Bilal on 11 September 2009:

data protection is a major concern, this software seems good for webmasters. i know how much i suffer when my hard drive crash last time. i try many softwares but cant recover the source files of few templates that i designed. i hope this will work, will try it next time.

Comment by astindietpi on 12 September 2009:

I’m still waiting that software with less price, before… I think this will help me saving my file, cause sometimes I’m forget and delete my file… lol…

Comment by davesturquois on 17 September 2009:

Really I like the feature of that software… That give benefit for protect my file…

Comment by kuudo on 20 September 2009:

Finally I found the best articles about recovery my file.Thx guys, its helful.

Comment by SEO Manchester on 28 September 2009:

Same here using ontrack easy recovery pro, makes light work of recently deleted files or even freshly formatted drives. I’ll give this a go too and see which performs.

Comment by TimForrest on 29 September 2009:

I’m sure this is a good program, I’ve tried several programs to recovery deleted files. Personally, my favorite was PCInspector File Recovery. Also, an earlier posted mentioned having trouble viewing the file after recovery. You can try IrfanView to see these. This program will look beyond the initial bytes where information about the file type is kept.

Comment by robertslucker on 29 September 2009:

By the way this program already launch? This articles has one month publish… I see from the date…

Comment by jacksparrow on 11 October 2009:

This is shit

I would rather use PC Inspector File Recovery tool…

Comment by Kenta on 30 October 2009:

Is this software is for FREE? there’s a lot of recovery software so called for FREE but when you tried to recover your lost file then that’s the time pop-up appeared that you need to pay so recover your files..

Comment by Sammy on 1 November 2009:

How can this be? Too many recovery softwares but its up to everyone to chose which and rather what software they like to choose. Can someone tell me which is lighter but effective software for recovery.

Comment by Kilusan on 4 November 2009:

Any suggestions which recovery tools is effective that can recover all of your files even though your HDD is already formatted and its FREE

Comment by Ready Photo Site on 5 November 2009:

Well, I just try to be more attentive and always save the files that are useless at the moment but which I think I might need in the future. I delete files from my trash box once a month… that also helps

Comment by phobiaofpublicspeaking on 9 November 2009:

hhmm.. if I use this one, can I recover my files in flash drive, even though every time I access or tried to open it, it show my flash need to format, but when I format it, the error window appear.. Thanks for the help..