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November 24, 2010    
 
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Software Summary

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Windows Data Recovery is a data recovery software fro windows created by publisher Disc Doctor Labs, Inc.

Windows Data Recovery Summary

Window Data Recovery is a bit of a letdown.  Considering the price users would have to pay for the software, the results are just moderately effective.  The process of recovering files is also not that streamlined as most users would prefer it to.  While it is hard to trace how exactly Windows Data Recovery does the recovering, users are happy to report that almost all files we are needed to be recovered were done so.  At the highest level of the program’s scanner, files that users have forgotten existed are churned out, a testimony to the efficiency of the program.

Windows Data Recovery Features

Windows Data Recovery has an NTFS side, which, once the user clicks on it, will give him or her three choices: Recover your data, Recover your data from disk image and Create disk image. Users who choose the “Recover your data” feature will be led to a new screen that allows them to select what drive to scan.  Another option displays default partitions or search for lost partitions. Once a user selects a drive, the process will move on to a screen that will let him or her select the partition to recover. Then, the process of scanning the computer for files that need to be recovered begins. The scanning engine actually presents two types of scans, quick and turbo. The quick scan gets done in less than 2 or 3 seconds, while the turbo scan does take a while.  The name can thus, be misleading, as “turbo” apparently takes longer than “quick”. There’s also the File Tracer feature, which extensively searches to recover data in seemingly impossible scenarios.

Windows Data Recovery Pricing

The Windows Data Recovery program is currently available in two packages: the home package at $49 and the pro package at $99.  Obviously, the pro package has more features not found in the home package such as signature based recovery (which allows recovery of some file types), resume recovery (allows pausing of a recovery process to be resumed at a later time), raw recovery (all data from an external drive, a hard drive, or a logical volume of the hard drive can be recovered), save scan (scanned data is saved to start data recovery at a later time), drive status (for the user to be made aware of any looming hardware issues), clone drive (creating a copy of the hard disk), create image (an image is made of the hard disk or the selected volumes) and masking (helpful in narrowing the scan result).

Windows Data Recovery Support

Customer service options are very much available to users of the Windows Data Recovery program.  Users get a product manual bundled with the program as well as a set of tutorials and a frequently asked questions page for their use. In case they would like to get in touch with the manufacturer, they can do so with an email address and a telephone number dedicated for any customer queries that are provided on the manufacturer’s website.

Windows Data Recovery Review

Stellar Info’s Windows Data Recovery has been considered confusing by a number of users.  Complications start with the process of recovering data.  A number of data recovery software does everything in one window with several prompts, while this software leads users to click through another set of windows just to have the process of data recovery finished.  The screen where the process takes place, called the “wizard” is quite tedious, with lots of things to click on and windows to open.  It would be better, according to users, for the process to be simplified.  Moreover, the process of recovering a file isn’t presented in a neat, linear manner.  Because of these processes, some users opt to switch to other programs.

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