1.About Stellar Data Recovery
Stellar Data Recovery is a complete solution to recover lost data from all kinds of storage devices such as desktop and laptop hard drives, external hard drives, memory cards, SSD drives, SD cards, RAID drives, virtual machines, etc.
The powerful scan engine of the software does a thorough scan of the selected storage device, shows a preview of files found during the scanning process and finally saves them to a specified destination. Separate options to recover documents, folders, mails or multimedia files from the storage media is also available.
Stellar Data Recovery allows you to save the scan result information to resume the recovery process at a later stage.
Stellar Data Recovery is available in six different editions:
- Free edition
- Standard edition
- Professional edition
- Premium edition
- Technician edition
- Toolkit edition
Key Features:
- Deleted File Recovery: Recovers all accidentally deleted files.
- Partition Recovery: Recovers data from damaged, deleted, formatted and lost partitions on any storage media device.
- Data Recovery from Crashed OS/Computer: Provides the option to create a Bootable Recovery Drive to recover data from the crashed operating system or computer. Supports recovery from all versions of Windows.
- Raw Recovery Support: Raw recovery of volumes and hard drives to search data based on signatures.
- RAID Recovery: Seamless recovery for lost or inaccessible RAID hard drives. The software supports the creation of Virtual RAID to recover data.
- Virtual Machine Recovery: Recovers data from VMDK, VDI, VHD and VHDX formats of virtual machine drive images.
- Deep Scanning: ‘Deep Scan’ does a comprehensive file signature-based search to maximize recovery in tough cases of data loss. Deep Scan is particularly useful for recovering the files that couldn’t be found with normal scanning.
- Specific File Search: Support to search a specific type of files in a logical drive/specific folder.
- Specific Folder Search: Support to search a specific folder for lost & deleted data.
- Image Creation: Supports the creation of image for hard disk and volumes for recovery.
- Preview Support: Supports preview of files before recovery for most file types.
- Save and Resume Recovery Session: Save and resume recovery option to recover data at a later stage without scanning the drive again.
- BitLocker Support: Supports drives that are encrypted with BitLocker.
- File System Support: Supports multiple file systems such as
- Windows file systems – NTFS, FAT, FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT.
- CD/DVD file systems – CDFS, UDF, and HFS+.
- Linux file systems – EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4.
- Macintosh file systems – HFS, HFS+, and APFS.
- Simultaneous Scanning for File Systems: Supports scanning of multiple file systems simultaneously and gives you the best possible scan results.
- Supported File Types: Supports more than 300 File types be the default. Also, supports adding and editing custom file types.
- Support for Multiple Drive Types: Recovers data from desktop and laptop hard drives, external hard drives and pen drives, memory cards, SSD drives, SD cards, RAID servers, virtual machines, etc.
- Operating System: Compatible with Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7.
Note: Depending on the edition of the Stellar Data Recovery software that you have, the above-given key features may not be available.
2.About the Guide
This user guide contains sequential steps to assist you through various Stellar Data Recovery functions. Each function is explained in detail, in the corresponding topics.
This user guide is applicable to all of the following editions of Stellar Data Recovery:
- Free edition
- Standard edition
- Professional edition
- Premium edition
- Technician edition
- Toolkit edition
Depending on the edition of Stellar Data Recovery that you have, the topics of this guide may not be applicable to your edition of Stellar Data Recovery software. Refer to the applicability note given at the starting of each topic, to know if the topic is applicable to your edition of Stellar Data Recovery software. An Applicability note is given below as an example:
Applicability: This topic on “Topic Title” is only for the Technician and Toolkit edition of Stellar Data Recovery.
Note: If you do not find the applicability note at the starting of a topic, then the topic is applicable to all the editions of Stellar Data Recovery.
This guide has the following features for easy navigation and understanding:
- There are Applicability Notes in some topics of this guide, refer to these notes to know if the topic is applicable to your edition of Stellar Data Recovery software.
- There are Notes and Tips in some topics of this guide for better understanding and ease of work. These Notes and Tips are given in italics.
This is a web-based guide and requires an active internet connection. To save an offline copy of this guide, click on the Microsoft Word icon
given before the first topic at the top.
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3.1.Installation Procedure
Before installing the software, please ensure that your system meets the following minimum system requirements:
Minimum System Requirements:
- Processor: Pentium Processors
- Operating System: Windows 10 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 8 / Windows 7.
- RAM: 2 GB minimum (4 GB recommended)
- Hard Disk: 250 MB of free space







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