Ontrack® EasyRecovery™ Enterprise
Developer Website: http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/recovery-software/
- 2015
Overall Product Rating: 3.5
Good file recovery performance and with almost all features necessary for professional data recovery, but lacks advanced file search capabilities.
Strengths: Excellent localization support. Decent data recovery performance. Pseudo-automatic RAID parameter finding.
Weaknesses: Heavily overpriced (US $499) considering average feature set and file search capabilities. Only supports proprietary disk images created by the software. No support for a common byte-by-byte image that is usually supported by other data recovery programs.
Supported Interface Languages: 6.0Compare
Languages supported: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Suomi, Japanese and traditional and simplified Chinese.
Language management: Language must be selected during installation.
Localized File Name Recognition: 6.0Compare
Recognized all tested localized characters in file and folder names.
Demo version restrictions: 3.0Compare
File preview (no file size limitations).
No time limit for the demo version.
File preview: 4.0Compare
The built-in previewer shows files as thumbnails. A file can be opened in its native application, if installed. Can also view file properties.
File Systems Supported for File Recovery: 4.5Compare
NTFS/NTFS 5, FAT12/FAT16/FAT32, HFS/HFS+, ext2/ext3, ISO9660
File Recovery Parameters: 4.0Compare
Recovers file names and folder structure. Files with the same names can be renamed during recovery.
Deep Analysis of Disks (Disk Scan): 3.0Compare
Several scan parameters can be specified: File systems to scan, scan area, and bad sector processing. Only the scan log can be stored.
File Recovery Using File Signatures (Raw File Recovery): 2.0Compare
Supports raw file recovery. User can select which predefined file type is to be included and specify a file size range for found raw files.
Disk Imaging and Copying: 4.5Compare
Only supports images created using Ontrack® EasyRecovery™. Does not support common byte-by-byte images. An image can be restored to another disk. Disk objects can also be copied.
File Search, Mark For Recovery, Sorting: 2.0Compare
Can only search for individual files. No support for file sorting or filtering
Disk Parts/Regions: 4.0Compare
A region in per cents can be specified for all disk objects; bad block ranges can be created, saved, and loaded.
RAID Recovery Features: 4.5Compare
Direct access to a virtual RAID. Only disks and images can be added to a virtual RAID.
Automatic RAID Parameter Detection: 2.0Compare
Pseudo-automatic RAID parameter finding. The program tests variants specified by the user.
Network Data Recovery: 1.0Compare
Network data recovery using the VNC technology. Actually, this technology can be used with any data recovery program. This program earns 1 star because it is explicitly mentioned in the program help.
File recovery performance
Deleted Files (NTFS): 4.0Compare
For the 1 GB partition: All files, except the mp3, acc, avi and exe files, were immediately found in correct folders and recovered upon opening the partition. The mp3, acc, avi, and exe files were found but appeared damaged.
For the 500 MB partition: All files, except the exe files, were immediately found and successfully recovered.
Deleted Files (FAT32): 5.5Compare
For the 1 GB partition: All files were found after scanning for file signatures and were correctly recovered. For the 500 MB partition: All files were found upon opening the partition. They appeared in the Orphaned Folders folder in their respective subfolders.
Emptied Recycle Bin (NTFS): 4.5Compare
For the 1 GB partition: Most files were immediately found in the original folder with original names in the upper folder Cluster and successfully recovered upon opening the partitions. We could not correctly recover video or audio files.
For the 500 MB partition: Several files were found in the raw files.
Emptied Recycle Bin (NTFS): 5.5Compare
All files were found in the $Recycle.Bin folder upon opening the partitions and correctly recovered with their original names. The folder name could not be recovered.
Disk Reformat – FAT32 to NTFS : 3.0Compare
Disk size 1 GB: We could find only a few files in raw files after disk scan.
Successfully recovered: mpg, avi.
Disk size 2 GB: We could find only a few files in raw files after disk scan. Successfully recovered: mpg, avi, mp4 and m4v
Disk Reformat – NTFS to NTFS : 4.5Compare
Most files were found and successfully recovered after disk scan for raw files.
Disk Reformat – FAT32 to FAT32 : 4.0Compare
For the 1 GB disk: All files were found in the original folders with original names and successfully recovered after disk scan. The folders were in the upper folder Cluster.
For the 2 GB disk: All files were found among raw files without their file names after disk scan.
Disk Reformat – NTFS to FAT32 : 5.0Compare
Partition size 1 GB: Most files were found in the original folders with original names and successfully recovered after disk scan, with the following exceptions: — The avi and rar files could not be recovered. — Several file names appeared damaged.
Partition size 500 MB: All files were found in the original folders with original names and successfully recovered after disk scan.
Damaged Partition (FAT32): 3.0Compare
All files were found only in the raw files without file names and successfully recovered.
Damaged Partition (FAT32): 3.0Compare
All files were found only in the raw files without file names and successfully recovered.
Damaged Partition (FAT16): 3.0Compare
All files were found only in the raw files without file names and successfully recovered.
Damaged Partition (NTFS): 6.0Compare
The damaged partitions were found without disk scan. All files with correct file names were found in correct folders and successfully recovered upon opening the partition.
Deleted partition: 3.5Compare
Both the NTFS and FAT partitions were found. But all files were found only in the raw files without file names and several ones were successfully recovered.
RAID level: 5 consisting of 3 disks: 1.0Compare
Correct RAID 5 parameters were found but placed somewhere in the middle of a list of 119 variants. Only folders with correct names were found. Several files were found among raw files, but most of them appeared damaged.
RAID level: 0 consisting of 2 disks: 6.0Compare
All files were found in the original folders with original names and successfully recovered without disk scan
