Stellar Data Recovery handles the standard loss scenarios through one wizard: deleted files, emptied recycle bins, formatted drives, lost or unmounted partitions and corruption on external media. A monitoring module watches drive health through SMART attributes so failing hardware is spotted before a recovery becomes urgent.
Scans can be narrowed by file type or folder before they start, which keeps deep scans on multi-terabyte drives manageable, and recovered files are previewed in the built-in viewer before being written to a safe destination. The pre-activated package also includes the bootable recovery environment for machines that no longer start.
Windows 10/11 x64, 4 GB RAM, 250 MB free disk space