Overview
Data recovery software tools are specialized tools that are designed to retrieve lost, deleted, corrupted, or inaccessible data from storage devices such as Hard drives, Solid-state drives (SSDs), USB drives, memory cards, etc. These tools are especially useful when data loss occurs due to accidental deletion, formatting, virus attacks, hardware failures, or other issues.
Data Recovery Software
Some popular data recovery software tools are as follows:
- Stellar Toolkit for Data Recovery
- EaseUS Data Recovery
- Recuva
- MiniTool Power Data Recovery
- Disk Drill
- PhotoRec
Stellar Toolkit for Data Recovery
Let’s look at some key features of one of the tools.
Key Features
Some important key features of the tool are as follows:
- Recover Data from Crashed machine
- Recover data from all types of Storage devices
- Recover from RAID
- Recover Data from VM( Virtual Machine)
- Cross Platform
- Free Trial
Recover Data from crashed machine
Stellar Recovery toolkit can create bootable media which enables the user to recover data from a Windows PC or Mac that has crashed or cannot boot. The recovery media allows easy access to the unbootable system, similar to a functioning system, and scans the hard drive or start-up disk to retrieve the data.
Recover data from VMs
With the Stellar Recovery toolkit, it is possible to recover data from a virtual machine by mounting its image and scanning it as if it were a physical storage device. This can include scanning visible partitions or searching for missing ones and scanning them to retrieve data. The toolkit is capable of recovering data from various virtual machine image formats such as VMDK, VDI, VHD, and VHDX.
Cross-Platform
Stellar Recovery tool supports all major operating systems. The software tool is capable of recovering data from various Windows storage media that use NTFS, FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT file systems. It can also support macOS storage devices such as APFS, HFS, and HFS+ drives. Additionally, this tool can restore data from Linux storage devices that use Ext4, Ext3, and Ext2 file systems.