Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery- the name which is no stranger to you. This tool was the best assessment in 2012 by users based on the summary table of the Top Ten Reviews.

This data recovery tool helps you to search and recover all your data inaccessible and lost due to accidental format, software malfunction, or deleted files or folders, virus attack, unexpected system shutdown… It also provides an option for the user to quick or deep scan on the system and can support 185 file formats added.

You also can create image of media which helps you recover data when your hard drive has contained bad sectors.

The first impression of this software is the user interface simple and beautiful, however it is very convenient and easy to use because it has the same familiar Windows layout.

Data recovery tab: where you can recover your data from Drives, CD/DVD, images on drive and deleted emails from Microsoft Outlook/ Outlook Express.

I’ve tried to recover my USB (4Gb space), it took about 10 minutes to scan and show me the results:

The deleted data are shown very clearly, and easy to choose the files, folder or type of files (by select File Type list) which you want to recover. The files were recovered almost work fine, there are only 2/12 DOC files can not read (cause of wrong font!), but it is better than other tool I’ve used.

I have tried to recover the data on your USB 2 times after format, the text file format 2 times or less, the ability to read after recovery is high, and the text file format on USB 2 times the reading ability is almost zero.

The other features I’ve tried is Email Recovery, with about 1.3Gb of my .PST file, it took me 12 minutes for checking all of deleted email, that’s very surprise!

About Photo recovery feature: it took longer for processing, you can choose and preview your photo before recovering.

Advance option: allows you create images for backup, clone drives and check your drive.

Recovery from image: allows you to recover your data from created image!

To try more you can visit: http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm

The advantage:

– It has a visual interface and easy to install and use, so you do not need be an experienced IT professionals can recover data by using it.

– The scan is quite fast

– Deleted files will be marked after a scan.

– The results sort by file types

– Easy preview files before recovering

The disadvantage:

– Time for photo recovery is quite long
– There are some data can not recovered

Wish you luck!