- 2020
Overall Product Rating: 3.1
The program has an average wizard interface, average set of file recovery features, and very poor file recovery performance. The only good feature in the program is that its users can add their own file types.
Interface and Features
Support for the SIP system protection : 4.0Compare
The program informs the user that the files on the system disk can be accessed only when SIP is disabled and provides instructions on how to do so.
File recovery using file signatures (raw file recovery): 5.5Compare
Supports raw file recovery with a pre-defined file signature set. Individual files can be located through a built-in search, which can be selected in the program preferences. User-defined file types can be added.
File search, mark for recovery, sorting: 4.0Compare
Search parameters: individual file search/mark for recovery, file mask search/manual mark for recovery. Only deleted/all files can be shown.
User interface: 4.5Compare
A good wizard interface that allows the user to select the necessary course of action for each data recovery case.
: 4.0Compare
The built-in previewer can show images, audio, and video files, and Microsoft Office documents.
File recovery performance
Apple RAID0: 1.0Compare
The Apple RAID0 was immediately found with the correct size. But no partitions and files could be found on the device.
Apple Encrypted Volume: 0.0Compare
The program could not automatically recognize the Apple Encrypted Volume.
Mac APFS Fusion Drive: 1.0Compare
The Mac APFS Fusion drive was immediately found as a virtual hard drive without any volume. Search for the volumes and files on that virtual hard drive found nothing.
Emptied Trash (FAT32 file system): 5.5Compare
The program found all files and folders after a very short scan. All found files were recovered successfully, although many file and folder names didn’t have their first letter.
Emptied Trash (exFAT file system): 2.5Compare
After Disk Scan: The program could not find the exFAT partition on the disk. Only some raw files were found. Several of them could be successfully recovered.
Emptied Trash (HFS+ file system): 1.0Compare
After a very long (1.5 h) Search for Lost files: The program found only few raw files, none of them could be successfully recovered.
Emptied Trash (APFS file system): 4.0Compare
After Disk Scan: After a very long scan (1.5 h), the program found some remnants of the previous file system in the .Trashes/502 folder. Some files were found in these remnants, some in the Lost Files section, most with correct filenames. Some files were found as raw files with incorrect file names,
Overall, most files were successfully recovered, the entire folder structure was recovered partially.
Disk erased (formatted) from FAT32 to FAT32 (memory stick): 2.5Compare
**After Formatted/Reformatted recovery: **No volumes to recover were found.
After Volumes Recovery: The program found only raw files. Approximately half of them were successfully recovered.
Disk erased (formatted) from APFS to APFS (external USB HDD): 4.0Compare
After extremely long (2.5 h) Disk Scan: Half of the entire previous folder structure and files were found with correct names in $$$FolderXXX folders.
Some lost files were found among raw files and successfully recovered, but without their correct names.
Disk erased (formatted) from APFS to HFS+ (external USB HDD): 0.0Compare
After Recover Volumes/Drives (Formatted/Reformatted Volumes): Only raw files were found after a very long scan (2 h). None of them could be recovered.
Disk erased (formatted) from HFS+ to HFS+ (external HDD): 3.5Compare
After Recover Volumes/Drives Formatted/Reformatted Recovery: Nothing was found.
After All recovery methods: Approximately half of the lost files were found and recovered as raw files. There were a lot of false positives after the scan (pieces of data that the program recognized as valid files, but appeared as junk).
Disk erased (formatted) from HFS+ to APFS (external HDD): 3.0Compare
After Formatted/Reformatted recovery: Only raw files were found, that is, without the original folder structure or names. Only jpg and png files were recovered successfully.
After Volumes Recovery: An Untitled HFS volume was found.
After Advanced Scan: The same results were obtained.
Disk erased (formatted) from HFS+ to exFAT (external HDD): 3.0Compare
**After Formatted/Reformatted recovery: **Nothing was found.
After Volumes Recovery: Only raw files were found, that is, without the original folder structure or names. Only jpg and png files were recovered successfully.
Disk erased (formatted) from exFAT to exFAT (external USB HDD): 1.0Compare
Recover Volumes/Drives, Formatted/Reformatted Recovery: Nothing was found.
Volumes Recovery: Approximately half of the lost files were found and recovered as raw files. There were a lot of false positives after the scan (pieces of data that the program recognized as valid files, but appeared as junk).
Disk erased (formatted) from exFAT to HFS+ (external USB HDD): 2.5Compare
After Formatted/Reformatted recovery: Nothing was found.
After Volumes Recovery: Only raw files were found without the original folder structure or names. Only jpg and png files were recovered successfully.
Disk erased (formatted) from exFAT to APFS (external USB HDD): 2.5Compare
After Recover Volumes/Drives (Formatted/Reformatted recovery): After extremely long scan only raw files were found, that is, without the original folder structure or names. Only few jpg files were recovered successfully.
Damaged partition (exFAT): 4.0Compare
After Recover Volumes/Drives (Volumes Recovery): Only raw files were found. All of them were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 1 mkv, 8 avi, 1 mpeg, 8 mts, 32 mp3.
Damaged partition (FAT32): 0.0Compare
After Formatted/Reformatted Recovery: Only raw files were found. None of them could be recovered successfully.
After Volumes Recovery: The same raw files were found. None of them could be recovered successfully.
Damaged partition (APFS): 0.0Compare
After Recover Volumes/Drives: (Volumes recovery) The APFS partition was immediately found.
After Standard Scan: Nothing was found.
After Advanced Scan: Nothing was found.
Damaged partition (HFS+): 3.0Compare
After Recover Volumes/Drives (Volumes Recovery/Advanced Scan): After extremely long scan only raw files were found, that is, without the original folder structure or names. Only few jpg files were recovered successfully.
Deleted partition (APFS): 0.0Compare
After Recover Volumes/Drives (Formatted/Reformatted recovery): Nothing was found. After Volumes Recovery: Nothing was found.
After Recover Files: Nothing was found.
Deleted partition (HFS+): 5.5Compare
After Volume Recovery: The program found the previous partition. After Partition Scan: The entire folder and file structure on their original places with correct names were found and successfully recovered.
Deleted partition (exFAT): 3.0Compare
After Formatted/Reformatted recovery: Nothing was found.
After Volumes Recovery: Only raw files were found without the original folder structure or names. Only jpg and png files were recovered successfully.
Deleted partition (FAT32): 3.5Compare
After a disk scan: Only raw files were found and successfully recovered.
