1. About Stellar Data Recovery

Stellar Data Recovery is a complete solution to recover lost data from all kinds of storage devices such as desktop and laptop hard drives, external hard drives, memory cards, SSD drives, SD cards, RAID drives, virtual machines, etc.

The powerful scan engine of the software does a thorough scan of the selected storage device, shows a preview of files found during the scanning process and finally saves them to a specified destination. Separate options to recover documents, folders, mails or multimedia files from the storage media is also available.

Stellar Data Recovery allows you to save the scan result information to resume the recovery process at a later stage.

Stellar Data Recovery is available in six different editions:

1. Free edition

2. Standard edition

3. Professional edition

4. Premium edition

5. Technician edition

6. Toolkit edition

To know more about these editions, click here.

Key Features:

1. Deleted File Recovery: Recovers all accidentally deleted files.

2. Recovery from Lost Drive/Unallocated Partition: Recovers data from unallocated, uninitialized, unidentified and RAW partitions on a hard disk.

3. Partition Recovery: Recovers data from damaged, deleted, formatted, and lost partitions on any storage media device.

4. Data Recovery from Physical Disk: Recovers data from severely corrupted physical or removable disks. 

5. Data Recovery from Crashed OS/Computer: Provides the option to create a Bootable Recovery Drive to recover data from the crashed operating system or computer. Supports recovery from all versions of Windows.

6. Raw Recovery Support: Raw recovery of volumes and hard drives to search data based on signatures.

7. RAID Recovery: Seamless recovery for lost or inaccessible RAID hard drives. The software supports the creation of Virtual RAID to recover data.

8. Virtual Machine Recovery: Recovers data from VMDK, VDI, VHD, and VHDX formats of virtual machine drive images.

9. Deep Scanning: 'Deep Scan’ does a comprehensive file signature-based search to maximize recovery in tough cases of data loss. Deep Scan is particularly useful for recovering the files that couldn't be found with normal scanning.

10. Specific File Search: Support to search a specific type of files in a logical drive/specific folder.

11. Specific Folder Search: Support to search a specific folder for lost & deleted data.

12. Image Creation: Supports the creation of image for hard disk and volumes for recovery.

13. Preview Support: Supports preview of files before recovery for most file types.

14. Save and Resume Recovery Session: Save and resume recovery option to recover data at a later stage without scanning the drive again.

15. BitLocker Support: Supports drives that are encrypted with BitLocker.

16. File System Support: Supports multiple file systems such as

    • Windows file systems - NTFS, FAT, FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT.

    • CD/DVD file systems - CDFS, UDF, and HFS+.

    • Linux file systems - EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4.

    • Macintosh file systems - HFS, HFS+, and APFS.

17. Simultaneous Scanning for File Systems: Supports scanning of multiple file systems simultaneously and gives you the best possible scan results.

18. Supported File Types: Supports more than 300 file types by default. Also, supports adding and editing custom file types.

19. Support for Multiple Drive Types: Recovers data from desktop and laptop hard drives, external hard drives and pen drives, memory cards, SSD drives, SD cards, RAID servers, virtual machines, etc.

20. Operating System: Compatible with Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2016.