Feature Set:  

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery warrants its price tag by offering a thorough feature set. With Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery, you can recover data from hard drives, flash drives, USB flash drives, zip drives, fire wire drives, MMC and SD cards. Even if your drive has been formatted and partitioned, you can still expect to recover any data still contained on it.

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery supports FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems. That being said, however, many users will probably prefer to opt for one of Disk Doctors cheaper, less versatile programs. Disk Doctors offer separate versions for either FAT or NTFS formats that retail for about half the price.

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery software provides the ability to make an image file of a hard drive. This function is an indispensable tool to ensure that no further data is lost in the case of drive corruption.

The three separate scan types available on Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery allow users to recover an entire drive, attempt to salvage damaged data, or recover specific file types.
 

Ease of Use:  

Installation of Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery was painless and straight forward. We were up and scanning in a few minutes. A helpful wizard opens by default and assists you in deciding on which type of scan would be most useful.

After a scan is complete, the contents of your drive are displayed in an easily understandable format that mirrors that of Windows Explorer. Actually recovering files is a simple matter of selecting them, clicking the “save” icon, and selecting a target location.
 

Recovery Effectiveness:  

On our test laptop hard drive, we were able to recover all information that had not been overwritten previously. The majority of deleted JPEGs, MPEGs and MS Word files that had been deleted via the recycle bin were nearly all intact. Because not all information is completely recoverable, some of overwritten and fragmented files we recovered were incomplete. None-the-less, Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery managed to uproot both recently lost and long lost files across two partitions.

Search Capabilities:  

In addition to the three types of scan available—basic, "turbo" and "file tracer"— Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery allows you to search files by extension, name and size. Whether you’re looking for a .pdf, movie file, or spreadsheet, Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery provides search options that make it easy to find.

Help/Documentation:  

Disk Doctors’ onboard help file is supplemented by FAQs, tutorials and an information center on their website. They also have video tutorials on hand for step by step demonstrations of how to use the software. A word of warning though, the English is often very convoluted and rich in jargon. Beginner users will be scared off by the clearly translated language. Users unable to figure things out for themselves or with the help of the wizard have recourse to phone and email support.

While Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery itself does not recover network data, nor does it work on Mac or Linux, they have other products that do. Windows users willing to foot the bill for Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery will find it to be a good investment. On our test scans, the software met and exceeded expectations. We can comfortably recommend Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery.

To see how Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery stacks up to other leading data recovery programs, be sure to visit our review site for side-by-side comparisons of features and specs.

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