Stellar Phoenix Reviewer's Comments

Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS from Stellar Information Systems Ltd. is an adequate data recovery program but carries a larger price tag than higher ranking data recovery software. This product does a good job recovering data from a hard drive that uses FAT or NTFS systems, but it doesn't offer email recovery or network recovery and we found the interface a bit cumbersome—these faults keeps it from ranking much higher.

Stellar Information Systems offers additional products for recovering data from UNIX, Linux, Macintosh and Novell systems.

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Feature Set:  

Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS allows you to recover compressed files and encrypted files in addition to creating data images However, it doesn't allow you to recover files over a network and can't recover deleted emails.

Stellar Phoenix has data recovery programs for the following file systems: FAT16. FAT 32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5.

Ease of Use:  

The opening screen for Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS is difficult to read, and unless you know what you're doing, it's difficult to know where to even begin.

We had no problems during the installation of this Stellar Phoenix.

Recovery Effectivness:  

When we performed a scan of the hard drive, Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS found some of the files we were looking for, but couldn't find them all. It created a large tree diagram of our and files we could work our way through the folder-tree to find our files; however, we were unable to find them using the search function.

Search Capabilities:  

After completing a scan, Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS lays out a few files that, are really difficult to know exactly what they are—these are labeled "$Extend", "RECYCLE" and "System Volume Information". The search bar within the program also allows you to search for files, but since the product didn't find all our data, we don't feel it's really much of a viable search tool.

Help/Documentation:  

The help documentation for Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS is excellent, offering help support in the form of a built-in help section, FAQs, and support by phone and email.

Summary:  

Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS by Stellar Information Systems Ltd. is average data recovery software that's more difficult to use than some of the other products. Furthermore, it offers few search capabilities and even fewer useful features.