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Product Overview
EasyRecovery™ is a safe and affordable do-it-yourself data recovery solution that is designed to recover lost and deleted files from all types of media such as hard drives, optical drives, flash media drives, and multi-media or memory devices.
EasyRecovery™ may recover files whether they have been deleted from the command line, from within an application, the file system, or removed from the recycle bin.
In addition EasyRecovery™ may recover formatted or lost drives, drives with severe logical file system damage, and can even reconstruct lost RAIDs!
EasyRecovery™ will scan the drive and bring up list of files which can be saved from the scanned drive.
To preserve the drive with the lost or deleted files, all recovered files must be saved to another storage device or another drive letter in the system. EasyRecovery™ is a non-destructive read-only application and will not write or make changes to the drive it is recovering from.
E-mail Recovery module for recovering deleted e-mails.
Supported Operating Systems and File Systems
EasyRecovery™ for the PC runs natively under the Windows® 2000/XP/VISTA/Win7/Win8/Win10/Server 2003/2008 operating systems, and supports all partitions using FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS/HFS+, EXT2, EXT3, and ISO9660 file systems.
EasyRecovery™ for the Mac runs natively under the Mac OSX file systems 10.4 and higher (PPC/Intel), and supports all partitions using the FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS/HFS+, EXT2, EXT3 and ISO9660 file systems.


Features
Easy to use wizard driven interface
Works exactly the same on PC or Mac
Ability to scan all volumes in a local machine and build a directory tree of lost and deleted files
Search lost and deleted files matching file name criteria
Fast scanning engine allows the file list to be built quickly
Easy to understand File Manager and typical Save File dialog
Secure data recovery: EasyRecovery™ does not write on the drive it is scanning
Saving data to any drive is possible, including network drives, removable media, etc.
Supports compressed and encrypted files for Windows® NTFS
E-mail recovery allows the user to view the selected e-mail database. Show both existing and deleted e-mails for printing or saving to hard disk.


System Requirements
Windows® 2000/XP/VISTA/Win7/Win8/Server 2003/2008
Mac OS X running 10.4 or higher
512MB RAM (1GB recommended)
25MB of free space for the application
Additional storage space for saving the recovered data


Advantages
Access to all Windows® or Mac OS X file systems under any operating system environment as stated above.
Standard write using system API minimizes the chance of disk corruption.
No file and drive size limitations associated with a DOS based programs.
Full access to the network and other installed peripherals such as USB, flash drives, and external hard drives.
Compatibility with Stripe Sets RAID and Mirrored Drives.
Easy to use and a fully automated wizard, which walks the user through the program.


Limitations
This software is NOT able to recover data from a physically damaged drive! 
Not every file can be undeleted or recovered. Less fragmentation (common if the media is not full) will increase the rate of recovery.
Overwritten data cannot be recovered completely.
Fragmented data on Windows® FAT drives cannot be recovered if the FAT cluster-chains have been erased.
Data with damaged or missing index information cannot be recovered completely.