Stellar Phoenix FAT 9.0

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• Price: Free to try $79.00 to buy
• Operating system: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT
• Date added: May 19, 2003
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• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 7 votes
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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Stellar Phoenix FAT 9.0

  "I downloaded EVERY OTHER software program on CNET and spent 3 days running scans"

  by halfpastdesign on December 22, 2005

  Pros: First of all, I have been up the past 72 hours with no sleep and I still feel I HAVE to write this review I am so happy with this product. It saved me thousands of dollars...this is the ONLY program that maps out your hard drive visually allowing you to see the previous folder names that aren't renamed or truncated. Additionally, it found every file I needed. I lost ZERO data from my silly FIX MBR command screw up. Seeing your HD is IMPERATIVE to restore unless you want to restore the entire HD AND it's deleted contents. What does this mean? Well, every file you've ever deleted will need to be restored and you'll have to hand sort the files. My 160 GB HD had 68 GB on it before the crash. Every other scan picked up 180GB of data, so restoring on another HD was impossible! Plus, other software gives string filenames and folder names so you'd have to sort through hundreds of thousands of folders to try and find your data. This program ROCKS. Do NOT listen to any other negative review. Download the trial and you'll see what I mean.

  Cons: I can only think of one. The "search lost files and folders" will simply restart your ENTIRE scan session which takes at least an hour. I inadvertantly hit it 3 times (it was late and I was tired) thinking it did something else. I think it needs to be renamed to save accidental restarting of scans.

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Stellar Phoenix FAT 9.0

  "Stellar Phoenix is the best I found (and I looked at a lot!)"

  by rvfrick on July 13, 2005

  Pros: I had an external hardrive that one dya just hung when I clicked on my picture folder. I could not access the folder via IE or MSDOS. If was messed up and it contained priceless files.

  I don't understand the other person's poor rating. I tried 6-7 other programs and all but one could not recover my data or even read my drive. Only one program was able to recover some files but it renamed all of them! I found all the programs after spending days scouring Google searches and reading reviews. Yes I spent a lot of time because the data I wanted to recover was ALL of my kids baby pictures. I took the HD to a data recovery service bureau. Report was data could be recovered but would cost $900. I believe I had a corrupt partition table. CheckDisk did not work. Norton Disk Doctor did not work. Seasoned IT guys at work spent a few hours trying to ghost the drive on Linux and couldn't access the drive. My wife, an IT Admin was able to ghost the drive so I didn't have to put the original at risk.

  Stellar Phoenix offers a FREE trial. I downloaded their free software and ran it. It took 12 hours to scan my 200 GB drive but came up with a report listing all the recoverable files. It took me a few weeks to finally buy the software because I couldn't find many online reviews by paying customers. Anyhow, I finally paid my $79 and a key was immediately emailed to me. I ran the recovery program and let it work for over 2 days. 98% of my files were recovered. About 2% were corrrupted beyond recovery (no fault of Stellar Phoenix, just Maxtor). Thanks Stellar Phoenix for making a product that works!

  Cons: Don't know why there are not many reviews or user ratings online. Could use more detailed instructions but just let it run and it will do its thing. It tied up my machine for 2 days while it was working to recover my files. the long time may of had to do with the 200GB of data and it was saving to a USB2.0 external drive via a USB1.0 bus.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Stellar Phoenix FAT 9.0

  "Don't buy this"

  on November 9, 2004

  Summary: Did not recover even 5% of the files. The ones it did recover were in the wrong locations with the wrong file names. The product was basically useless.

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• 5 stars

  Version: Stellar Phoenix FAT 9.0

  "So far so good..."

  on August 2, 2004

  Summary: I have an external drive connected via PCMCIA Firewire card to laptop. Showed 0 Files in 0 Folders, but Properties showed the 26GB used on the 70GB drive. I ran the Stellar Phoenix FAT - Data Recovery Software Ver. 9.1 and after a cople of tries to ... read more >>

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• 1 stars

  Version: Stellar Phoenix FAT 9.0

  "Was very quick but recovered none of my lost files or data."

  on April 23, 2004

  Summary: It was very quick compared to most of the other programs I have tried. Took less than 30 mintues to scan a 40GB HD. Very easy to use. But it only showed the current files, none of the lost ones.

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