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By Edward Mendelson
July 18, 2019
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EXCELLENT

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SPECS

MSRP

$69.95

PROS
Fast, reliable performance. Recovers many les other products couldn't recover in testing. Easy sorting of deleted les and
speci c le types.

CONS
Files that weren't recoverable were listed as such in testing.

BOTTOM LINE
No data-recovery app can retrieve everything, but EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Pro does the best job in testing at
recovering lost and deleted les—including les that rival products couldn't nd a trace of.

Even the best data-recovery apps can leave you disappointed, because they sometimes lead you
to think they can recover lost or deleted les that are in fact gone forever. But some data-recovery
apps are better than others, and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is the best we've seen. It's far from
perfect, partly because today's advanced disk technology makes data-recovery more di cult than
it was with the simpler technology of the past, but it's fast and e cient, and it recovers les that
we couldn't get back when using its chief rival, Stellar Data Recovery Premium. If you use the EaseUS app
with realistic expectations, it can recover les and folders that might otherwise be lost forever.

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Pricing and Plans

EaseUS offers a completely free version that can rescue up to 2GB of data. Rival service's Stellar's free
version recovers 1GB. If you want to recover more than 2GB, or if you want tech support from the vendor,
upgrade EaseUS to the Pro version (which I tested) for $69.95. A $99.90 Pro + WinPE version, which I didn't
test, creates a bootable USB drive that you can use to recover les when you can't boot your system at all.
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Getting Started With EaseUS

EaseUS impressed me from the start in testing. I got started by copying an audio CD to a BIN/CUE le
combination for burning to a backup CD, and then deleting the les from my hard disk and emptying the
recycle bin. EaseUS got it back in perfect condition, while its rival Stellar Data Recovery reported that it had
recovered the le, but instead brought back only a useless fragment of the BIN le.

On the same hard disk, EaseUS easily found and recovered at least a dozen graphics les that Stellar didn't
nd at all. Both EaseUS and Stellar offer optional deep scans that can take hours to search every sector on
a drive for recoverable les, but only EaseUS lets you search and preview les that the app has already
found, while the deep scan continues in the background. Stellar makes you wait until the deep scan is
complete.

On a 2TB spinning-platter drive that I used for testing, EaseUS required ten hours for a full scan, while
Stellar needed a whopping 34 hours. Since I was able to nd the les I wanted long before EaseUS
completed its scan, its ability to recover while scanning was vastly more convenient than Stellar's refusal
to let me recover les or do anything else in the program while it made its scan.
When you launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard it starts by displaying a list of locations on your system
where the app can search for lost data—drive letters, the Recycle Bin, the Desktop, or any speci c folder.
Click a location and the Scan button, and it goes to work, automatically creating a full le list and a list of
deleted les during its initial scan. With Stellar, in contrast, you have to wait while it resorts its le list if you
want a list of deleted les. EaseUS, also unlike Stellar, lets you use a Filter menu to limit the search to
speci c le types, or to zero in on les modi ed in the last three days, or in the three days before that, or
other date ranges. And the same menu lets you zero in on different le sizes, such as under 100KB or
between 100MB and 1GB. Stellar doesn't have these options. When the app nishes scanning your drive
for data, it displays a well-organized le list, with deleted les listed separately from other les, and an
optional preview pane.
Not Everything Can Be Saved
All data-recovery apps list les for possible recovery that turn out not to be fully recoverable, and
sometimes you have no way of knowing whether a le can be brought back until you tell the program to
try. With graphics and some document les, you can tell at a glance whether the le is recoverable. If the
app's preview pane displays the le in recognizable form as you scroll down the list of les, then you can
get the le back. But with word-processing documents, spreadsheets, and songs, whether you're using
EaseUS or Stellar, you'll have to click on a Preview button and wait to to see if a recognizable le pops up or
if the song you want to recover starts playing back in the preview pane.

Just as EaseUS did a better job of recovering les, it also did a better job of not listing les as recoverable
that in fact it couldn't recover at all. For example, on the SSD I used for testing, Stellar offered to recover
some les that it listed as HTML les, but which were in fact fragments of completely different letypes.
EaseUS didn't list these phantom les at all, making it easier to sort through its le list to nd les that I
could actually bring back to life.

EaseUS, unlike Stellar, lets you save a recovered le to the same drive from which it recovered it. It warns
you before you do this, because when you save a recovered le to the same drive, you may inadvertently
overwrite other lost data that you might want to recover. Stellar won't let you save a recovered le to same
drive, so you may have to rush out and buy a USB drive if you don't have a spare drive to save to. Stellar's
policy is safest, but if you're only recovering a few les, and you don't mind the small chance that you'll
overwrite something that you may want to recover later, then EaseUS's policy is far more convenient.
Your Last, Best Option
No data recovery apps is perfect. Like its rivals, EaseUS lists les that it can't recover, and we wish it
automatically tried to display preview images of every le it lists for recovery—instead of automatically
previewing graphic les and making us click on a button before trying to preview most document formats.
Compared to this app's bene ts, these minor aws seem trivial, however and the app os an impressive
contrast to its rival app Stellar Data Recovery. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is our clear Editor's Choice for
data-recovery software.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Pro

EXCELLENT
 Bottom Line: No data-recovery app can retrieve everything, but EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Pro does the best job in testing at
recovering lost and deleted les—including les that rival products couldn't nd a trace of.

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Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson has been a contributing editor at PC Magazine since 1988, and writes extensively on Windows and Mac software, especially
about o ce, internet, and utility applications.

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