Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Professional Review with Ratings

A tech guy like me, relying on different gadgets for professional and personal tasks, need to have some reliable data recovery solution for unforeseen data loss. There is a plethora of data recovery software available today but recovering your lost data can be quite a hassle. Thankfully though, recently I got a chance to assess Stellar data recovery and discovered some excellent features of this software which I would like to share with others like me. The market share of Stellar has increased exponentially in the last few quarters. I will analyze this software through its phases and evaluate whether it deserves to be in your toolkit or not. So, if you are looking to invest your
money in some good data recovery software, read this detailed review of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery – Professional to let you see if it makes your list of best data recovery software

Features at a glance

Before getting in to detailed review itself, let us summarize the key features of stellar data recovery version 7.

Setup and Interface

The installation is quite easy after you download Stellar setup file (executable). After few simple steps, you need to input the license key to enjoy full features of the software. When you start the software from the desktop shortcut, you will get a menu screen similar to windows explorer. The menu is divided into three sections that include All Files, Documents-Folders-Emails, and Multimedia-Files. By default, all files are selected. If your lost files include all type of files you can proceed to next screen otherwise, you can select particular file types.

The interface is clear and simple with menu buttons that are arranged spaciously. Once you select the type of files to be recover, the next screen asks for the data recovery location. As you can see in the screenshot below, there are various options for locations that include, common folders like My-documents, desktop and drive partitions of your storage device.

In case, one of the partition is missing from the locations, you can recover the lost partition from “ Can’t Find Drive” option. Here you select the location and press scan button. It will show the recovered files/folder in the window. If you think this is the folder you are looking for, press recover. You need to specify the destination folder where you want to save the recovered files.

Performance

To test the performance of the software, I permanently deleted (by pressing shift+Del) all the files from one of the folders in My Documents of C Drive. The files were of multiple extensions like pdf, pst, media, text, and excel. The recovery was super-fast and took just a few seconds to scan and recover the folder. Out of 27 files, stellar was able to recover 25 files so I lost two PDF files.

In my second test, formatted a USB drive and tried to recover the deleted data. Before deletion, it had 8 files with ppt, excel, word, Zip, PNG and PDF extensions. First I tried normal scanning mode. It took around 1 minutes and could not recover any of the files. So I ran a deep scan on the formatted USB drive. It showed the estimated time as 2 hours to complete the 8 phases. But actually, it took around 20 minutes and to my surprise, it scanned and recovered around 70 files. There were around 7 folders with arbitrary names. I was able to recover all my eight files along with other files that were deleted in last 3 months.