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Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Review

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Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Review

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Review

Have you every deleted  a photo then realized that you deleted the wrong file. Or maybe your memory card got formatted by accident. Being a photographer myself, I understand what it feels like losing your photos.

Thankfully, there are ways to recover lost photo from your hard drive or memory card.  And it’s very easy to recovery photo with the right software. Today, I am going to review a photo recovery software -Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery.

Last week, I got a chance to play with Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery, a digital photo recovery software. It comes with both Windows and Mac versions. The one I got is the mac photo recovery version – Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery 3.2

Let’s take a look how easy it is to recover lost photos.

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The UI is quit simple. On the top there are three tabs, Data recovery, Resume recovery, and create image. Click Start Scan button to the next step.


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Then a list of available media show up. Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery supports all kinds of media such as: Memory Sticks, Flash Cards, Sony Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, SD Cards, MMC Cards, XD Cards, Secure Digital Card, Zip Disks, Mini Disks.

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If you plugged in a removable media, a window will pop up and show you the drive. It’s handy if you have no idea which drive is your USB drive.

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If you know what format the file is in,  you can choose the advance option. Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery supports many file formats including mayor RAW, Photo & Video formats.

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Also as an advanced feature, you can choose specific region on the media.

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Performance may vary depending the media.  I try on my new 500G Hard drive and a USB flash drive. It took a while to scan the whole 500G drive.

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On the left, recovered file are categorized in folders. On the right you can see a list of files that you can preview and choose to recover.

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Some times you can’t preview the file, but I did successfully recovered this video file.

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You can save your scan, and then resume recovery later.

After a few days of testing Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery, I really like how simply it’s to use.  The mac version of Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery is OS X Snow leopard Compatible. And it comes with a Window version as well. You can get a free trial to test it out.  And it sales for US $ 39.00.

You can get this Photo recovery software at www.photo-recovery-software.com

2 Responses to “Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Review”

  1. PeterMarch 29th, 2010 at 12:56 am

    This software corrupted my Windows 7 Operating System.

    We decided to try the software to recover some photos, after we installed this crappy software every application that we tried to start redirected back to the Stellar Software. For example, select Start | Programs | Accessories | Notepad, and Stellar Pheonix Photo Recovery started. We tried to uninstall. No luck, it was still there running from the F#$#@$@G Recycle Bin. Using the DOS interface I went into the recycle bin, deleted the executable, but after a reboot I had another copy. Just like a @#$@#$ virus.

    I tried a System Restore, and the process failed due to something blocking it.

    So after having a new PC for only a month, my only choice was to reformat the hard drive and re-install everything.

    I Thank Stellar for wasting my weekend.

    Peter

    • Geng GaoMarch 29th, 2010 at 2:43 am

      Hi Peter,

      I'm sorry that happen to you… I tried this on my Mac, it was okay.
      It's possible that the version you downloaded was infected by a virus.
      Anyways, Thanks for sharing it with us.


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