- 2015
Overall Product Rating: 3.5
Average file recovery performance with a limited number of advanced data recovery features.
Strengths: Excellent localization support and built-in previewer. Automatic RAID parameter finding for RAID 0 and 5.
Weaknesses: Poor RAID recovery performance.
Supported Interface Languages: 6.0Compare
Languages supported: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Language management: Separate installation file for each language.
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: 5.0Compare
The built-in previewer can show very many file types. Previewed files can be printed and copied. Gallery View shows all images as a thumbnail gallery.
Logging: 4.5Compare
Standard logging with three levels: None, Verbose, Debug. The log can be printed. Can also create a forensic log during disk imaging.
Deep Analysis of Disks (Disk Scan): 3.0Compare
Hard drives and logical disks can be scanned. File systems to scan can be specified. Scan results can be stored and then loaded later.
Disk Imaging and Copying: 4.0Compare
Image types: byte-by-byte and compressed. Image area and compression ratio can be specified.
File Recovery Using File Signatures (Raw File Recovery): 4.0Compare
Supports raw file recovery. User can select which file types are to be included in search and add custom file signatures. Can be used alone or as part of a normal disk scan.
File Search, Mark For Recovery, Sorting: 4.5Compare
Search parameters: “Show only deleted files”, individual file search/mark for recovery, file mask search/mark for recovery, file search for date, file search for size.
File Recovery Parameters: 4.0Compare
Recovers file names and folder structure. Recovery of empty folders and zero-sized and deleted files can be disabled
RAID Recovery Features: 4.5Compare
Direct access to a virtual RAID. Only disks and images can be added to a virtual RAID.
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): 4.5Compare
For the 1 GB partition: All files, except exe, were found after scanning for file signatures and were correctly recovered.
For the 500 MB partition: All files, except docx, and xlsx, were found in their respective subfolders upon opening the partition. The docx and xlsx files were found but appeared damaged.
Emptied Recycle Bin (NTFS): 5.5Compare
For the 1 GB partition: All files were found upon opening the partition and correctly recovered with their original names. The folder name could not be recovered.
For the 500 MB partition: All files, except avi, were found upon opening the partition and correctly recovered with their original names. The folder name could not be recovered.
Emptied Recycle Bin (NTFS): 4.0Compare
For the 1 GB partition: All files, except docx and xlsx, were found upon opening the partitions and correctly recovered with their original names. We could not correctly recover the folder name.
For the 500 MB partition: All files were found with changed names. Files that were successfully recovered: mpeg, tiff, png, mp4, rar, zip, flv, xls, pdf, jpg, doc, txt, m4v.
Disk Reformat – NTFS to NTFS : 3.5Compare
We could find only a few files in raw files and even fewer were successfully recovered after disk scan.
Found and successfully recovered: avi, docx, xls.
Disk Reformat – FAT32 to FAT32 : 3.5Compare
For the 1 GB disk: All files were found in the original folders with original names and successfully recovered after disk scan
For the 2 GB disk: We could find only few files among raw files without their file names: avi, docx, xls, jpg.
Disk Reformat – NTFS to FAT32 : 6.0Compare
Partition size 1 GB: Two NTFS partitions were found, and all files were found on one partition in the original folders with original names and successfully recovered after disk scan.
Partition size 500 MB: An NTFS partition was found and all files were found in the original folders with original names and successfully recovered after disk scan.
Disk Reformat – FAT32 to NTFS : 2.5Compare
Disk size 1 GB: We could find only a few files in raw files after disk scan.
Successfully recovered: avi.
Disk size 2 GB: We could find only a few files in raw files after disk scan.
Successfully recovered: avi.
Damaged Partition (FAT32): 1.0Compare
The partition was found after disk scan, but we could successfully recover only one file (rar).
Damaged Partition (FAT32): 1.0Compare
We could find only few files in raw files after disk scan. Successfully recovered: avi, docx, xls, jpg.
Damaged Partition (FAT16): 1.0Compare
We could find only few files in the raw files without file names and successfully recover: avi, docx, xls, jpg.
Damaged Partition (NTFS): 3.5Compare
Partition size 1 GB: Only a few files were found after disk scan.
Successfully recovered: avi, docx, xls, jpg.
Partition size 500 MB: The damaged partition was found without disk scan. All files with correct file names were found in correct folders and successfully recovered upon opening the partition.
Deleted partition: 6.0Compare
All files were found with original names and successfully recovered after disk scan.
RAID level: 5 consisting of 3 disks: 2.5Compare
We could not find correct RAID 5 parameters automatically. All file and folder names were found, but recovered files appeared damaged.
RAID level: 0 consisting of 2 disks: 2.5Compare
Correct RAID 0 parameters were automatically found. All file and folder names were found, but recovered files appeared damaged.
