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The files we chose for recovery are an album of Mozart's Music available from the Internet Archive.

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We used the free version of the utility to run the tests. The only third-party tools installed besides Wondershare Recoverit were VLC Media Player and GIMP.

#Software photo recovery install

Wondershare Recoverit: How we testedįor our data recovery tests we used a virtual machine with a clean install of Windows 11. These were files that are recoverable but are missing their metadata like filename, time stamp, size and so on. We were especially impressed to see how Recoverit runs simultaneous searches, displaying both found data and 'Unsourced Files'.

#Software photo recovery software

The software is great for recovering files or images that were accidentally lost. Recoverit works on your computer or laptop, camera, drone, music player, even old camcorder. You can recover information lost on a wide variety of devices. Even though this is a viable option, it’s always better to backup your data (and then it’s easy to restore) than lose your data and try to retrieve it. There’s a great computer crash recovery feature which allows you to restore data lost on your hard drive. However, if you have tons of information to restore then it could take hours. Data recovery can go as fast as a few minutes. All you need to do is use the filtering function that’s set up in the software and you’ll have access to specific documents or files. If you want to recover a specific type of data, Recoverit allows you to.

Good range of options and filtering for ease of use.

If you already know what to do, then it’s also easy to start with one of the paid plans. This is really important especially if you’re new to the world of data recovery. You can easily reach out and chat over the website or send an email if you have additional questions. Recoverit does have customer support, available round the clock. The online 'User Guide' on the other hand does sit on the Wondershare website and is extremely clear and well laid out. We found that when we entered a query though it displayed answers from external websites as well as the developers. If you have questions, there’s an option to launch the FAQ on the Wondershare website. However, after looking around you’ll see how easy it is to view the plans and look at pricing. In fact, there’s so much information on the website that if you’re new to browsing photo and data recovery software, you might feel a bit overwhelmed. The Recoverit interface is very impressive. That’s also welcome because lots of apps don’t allow you to scan an individual folder. There’s also a section at the bottom where you can quickly access the Recycle Bin, desktop or specific folders, so you’ll be able to reach common scanning scenarios quickly. Boot the app, and you’ll see separate sections for your hard disks, SSDs, and external devices – a distinction that many other apps don’t make. Recoverit has one of the best interfaces you’ll find anywhere in the photo recovery scene.

An impressive interface, but perhaps TMI on-screen.

If you do this though, remember the utility's preview feature will only play the first 30 seconds of any audio/video file and the first page of certain documents like XML files.

This said, you can use the free version of Recoverit to run a 'Quick Scan' and preview your files to see if recovery is possible before paying. During our tests we also found that the free version wouldn't recover individual files of less than 100MB - we hit a software paywall each time we tried.

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We also don’t recommend the free download of Recoverit – its data limit of 100MB is tiny when compared to other free data recovery tools and trials. Wondershare claim that 'Premium' is the most popular version of this product but we’d only recommend it if you need those extra video repair abilities or are dealing with a non-Windows/Mac file system. That package costs $99.99 for a year of access or $159.99 for lifetime, but it does support two PCs rather than one.

#Software photo recovery portable

The Standard product adds the ability to recover pictures from crashed systems and lets users create bootable, portable versions of Recoverit on USB memory sticks, but it costs $79.99 for a one-year license and $139 for a lifetime license.Īt the top end is the Premium product, which takes all of those features and adds advanced video recovery, merging and repair tools, not to mention NAS, RAID and Linux recovery. Both prices lift Recoverit above many of its entry-level contemporaries in the data recovery market. The essential product includes photo and data recovery, deep scanning and free tech support, but it costs $69.99 for a one-year, one-PC license and $119 for lifetime access.