
The files we chose for recovery are an album of Mozart's Music available from the Internet Archive. The only third-party tools installed besides Ontrack Data Recovery Premium were VLC Media Player and GIMP. (Image credit: Ontrack) How we testedįor our data recovery tests we used a virtual machine with a clean install of Windows 11. You're then asked to confirm the install location and your chosen language.Īvailable on Windows and MacOS, EasyRecovery is a great all-in-one tool for home and business use. This will download a small installer, which will in turn download additional files. In order to get started you only need visit the Ontrack EasyRecovery web page and download your chosen version. Ontrack EasyRecovery: Client and client setupĪpart from the Toolkit plan, which is only available for Windows, all of EasyRecovery’s plans work on Windows and MacOS. You can preplan your system scans, monitor the health of your drives, and rebuild corrupt, damaged, or deleted drives as and when you need to. This application enables you to initiate and execute data integrity and recovery steps at your own pace. During our tests (see below) we found that this feature was buggy, as the program stopped working each time we used it, on each of the three drives we tested. The developers claim that you can effectively scan your deleted files to quickly recover them, or opt for a more detailed scan for files that may be more challenging to recover. With Ontrack EasyRecovery, you can recover data from both internal external drives, including SSDs, conventional hard drives, USB/flash drives, and optical media storage devices.ĮasyRecovery’s comprehensive feature list makes it a top choice for your data recovery needs. You can recover files lost via deletion, reformatting, and other data loss scenarios such as virus attacks and server corruption. Ontrack EasyRecovery: FeaturesĪccording to the developer's website, the key features of EasyRecovery are: Still, this does allow you to check whether the utility can recover your data before handing over your money. In other words recovered data can't be saved to the hard drive. The paid versions of Ontrack EasyRecovery can be downloaded on a trial basis but users can only preview files inside the program.

For testing purposes we selected Ontrack EasyRecovery Premium, which we felt provided the best balance between price and features.

It can perform all of the recovery functions possible with the other plans but works with devices of every kind and can recover corrupt Linux files as well.Īll of the prices quoted are for a one year license. The Toolkit plan, which is only available on Windows, costs $299. The Technician plan comes with a license for commercial use and enables you to recover data from advanced RAID volumes, which are fault-tolerant storage drives. These plans allow you to repair corrupt photos and videos and make clones of your HDDs or SSDs.
