a review by Tom Piper
With so much of our information in various forms of electronic data storage, our risk of loss seems to grow exponentially. In spite of all of our backup and archiving efforts, our volumes will all eventually corrupt (in spite of our valiant efforts), and something important will not have been backed up yet. This is why a strong data recovery tool is so important.
Stellar Phoenix is professional-level Mac data recovery software which provides complete Mac recovery from hard drives, iPods, flash drives and memory sticks. It is a powerful and user-friendly Mac recovery application that ensures recovery of lost, deleted or corrupted data including documents, music, videos, pictures, e-mails and PDFs.
The read-only Data Recovery Mac software is built with an excellent graphical user-interface that makes it self-explanatory without prior technical training. Important features of Mac Data Recovery v 4.0 include:
- Supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther), 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- Compatible with HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT file system volumes.
- Recovers deleted files, entire volume, or just the files you want to recover.
- Reclaims images, videos, pictures, music from digital camera media and iPods.
- Embedded with advance options like Mac Style Find option, user-friendly GUI, fast scanning, and searching of lost, deleted, or formatted FAT volumes.
The main dashboard (see above) is simple and straight-forward, with a full explanation of each function described in a large box below the icons (not shown to save space). Among the various navigation buttons was also a Help function that has excellent on-line assistance like a Knowledge Base, Support Section and email support. The built-in Help function was less intuitive, and the button seem not to function correctly.
This is an easy-to-use full-function data recovery tool that can be very useful. A visit to www.macintosh-data-recovery.com will show how many of these functions work. Pricing starts at $99 (USD) for the downloadable single-user version up through $349 (plus shipping and handling) for the Technician License. But, you can try before you buy with the free download. And, if the data is really hard to recovery (like a melted case), then Stellar also provides a mail-in recovery service at several centers around the world.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data recovery v4.0 software is a product from Stellar Information Systems Ltd. The company is an ISO9001:2000 certified organization that has been developing data recovery software since 1993. The company also provides data recovery services and has over a million satisfied customers across 137 countries. They are committed to customer satisfaction and even offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on this software. In my book, this is a great combination of credentials and assurances.
I encourage you to test-drive this software to see what a valuable utility it can be. This software is now in my toolbox for when my next hard drive, flash drive or other volume fails (because I know it eventually will)!
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Posted by: Data Redundancy | March 25, 2010 at 03:01 PM