- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Restore-disabled); $69.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: February 17, 2006
- Total Downloads: 67,455
- Downloads last week: 163
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 18 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Stellar Phoenix File Recovery finds deleted and lost files on your PC drives, but don't expect it to recover the files without registration.
The program's interface is clean and simple, with a menu along the top, and all information arranged like a spreadsheet. The application offers three types of search: Fast File, Advanced File, and Physical Disk. The Fast method finds recently deleted files in your Recycle Bin or chosen directories. To help decide which files to recover, you can easily sort all files by type, modification date, or size. The Advanced method is similar, but it looks for long-ago deleted files. The Physical Disk search looks at a corrupted drive sector-by-sector to piece together salvageable files.
We can attest to Stellar Phoenix File Recovery's speed and accuracy when finding files, but you must register the program to recover the found files. Intermediate to advanced users looking to recover corrupted drives are the target audience. Novice users looking to undelete an accidentally erased file should find a simpler tool elsewhere.
Publisher's description
From Stellar Information Systems :Stellar Phoenix File Recovery is high-quality data recovery solution that uses powerful algorithms to recover deleted/lost files instances ranging from accidentally formatting the hard drive to emptying the Recycle Bin to files deleted after a virus attack. Stellar Phoenix File Recovery offers a graphically rich user interface which, combined with new and advanced features such as File Mask, File Filter, File Recovery Wizard. You should use Stellar Phoenix File Recovery in following cases: File system data structures of a drive have suffered serious corruption or overwriting and the data recovery software cannot scan such drives. Data recovery software cannot locate missing/lost file and folders. The recovery software scans the drive in raw mode and can locate the files without the aid of file system data structures. It recognizes and restores over 300 file types including word processor, document, spreadsheet, graphic, Internet, multimedia, and source code.
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User reviews of Stellar Phoenix File Recovery 2
- Average user rating: 2.4 stars out of 18 votes
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23 out of 23 people found this review helpful
Version: Stellar Phoenix File Recovery 2
"Easy to use, so far very reliable"
Pros: Used it so far once, on a 200GB SATA drive, that was intermittently recognised by the BIOS. When recognised, Win XP said that it was not formatted. The manufacturers test program declared it beyond repair (with corr. error code), to be sent in for replacement. I had 93GB data on it and was able to save the 73GB I chose. More use will determine, whether it works so well on other drives.
Cons: Pricey. Recovery tools tend to be expensive because people are desperate. Other solution: send the drive to professionally recover the data, whitch is even more expensive. I could have lived without the "lost" data, most of which were backed up anyway, but I was interested in the program to see whether it holds what it promises. It did.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Stellar Phoenix File Recovery 2
Pros: I like this program, very simple and easy to use. I had first heard about this program from friends, so I decided to give it a try. I will continue to use this.
Cons: The price is a bit high, but it's not that bad.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Stellar Phoenix File Recovery 2
"For one who totally be attacked by virus"
Pros: If there's no way to remove virus. Just format your disk and use this tool to recover your data. 90% can be recovered.
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4 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: Stellar Phoenix File Recovery 2
Pros: nothing
Cons: everything
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Stellar Phoenix File Recovery 2
"It is good that it always operates on start up without instruction"
Pros: When I had problems and my system restore kept being affected I needed something to rely on so I bought Phoenix. It`s instant availability and comprehensive recovery of everything worked perfectly in safe mode.
A full log of all my use of the program is also very useful.
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