Handy Recovery Reviewer's Comments

Our "TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award" winner is Handy Recovery from SoftLogica LLC. This highly-effective data recovery software is fairly easy to use, allows you to search for deleted files by name and comes with all the help support you'll need to get you on your way.

Although Handy Recovery is good at what it does, the combination of a general lack of features and an inability to search by both name and extension are the reasons this software was beat out by our #1 and #2 data recovery software spots.

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Feature Set:  

Handy Recovery allows you to create images of your hard disk, which is something that neither our Gold nor our Silver winning software can do. This ability to create images of a hard disk allows you to save a copy of your files to another drive easily, so you can recover lost files whenever you need. This software also works on the majority of Windows operating systems.

However, Handy Recovery is missing a few of the features that we feel high-quality data recovery products should have, including its inability to recover deleted or lost emails, data over a network or even data that's located on removable media and RAID disks. These are the reasons why this software scored so poorly in this category.

Ease of Use:  

When compared to our top products, Handy Recovery's design is simply not as user friendly for the novice user. However, once you've spent some time with this program, you'll find it quite easy to work with.

To recover files with this program, simply select the drive that you are trying to extract the data from and then click on the analyze button. The software then scans the drive and displays what's available on it. Once you've located the file you're looking for, simply press the recover button—the program will do the rest.

We didn't have any problems installing Handy Recovery—it was simple and easy to do.

Recovery Effectivness:  

Handy Recovery found and restored all the files that we tested it against. We found it extremely effective at data recovery.

Search Capabilities:  

Handy Recovery's search engine is extremely good—giving you the ability to search for files by their name. However, this program does not allow you to search by file extension, size or its creation date.

Help/Documentation:  

SoftLogica supports Handy Recovery in several different ways, including a built-in help section that expertly covers all the major questions one might have with this software, tips for using the program, a link to their support page, email support and a telephone support line.

Summary:  

Handy Recovery by SoftLogica is good-quality data recovery software that combines above average search and support tools with some of the most effective data recovery capability we've seen. But, with an unimpressive feature set and screen designs that would stop most data-recovery novices dead in their tracks, Handy Recovery simply doesn't measure up to our #1 and #2 ranked products.