Here is a low- cost solution from Stellar meant for recovering digital data
from removable devices such as memory stick, and flash cards etc. It's mainly
targeted at home users and people who are involved with all kind of multimedia
files. The advantage of using this product is that it supports almost all the
available file formats. Unlike other Steller Phoenix products, this one provides
two scan options, the normal scan and the advanced scan. The difference between
these two options is that while the former scans sectors, the latter does an
advance scan on the drive by scanning each byte of the storage device.
For testing the solution we took a USB drive having corrupted multimedia
content and ran normal scan on it. The solution very well recovered are of
content onto local hard drive. Then, we formatted one of our SD cards and ran a
normal scan. It showed all the deleted images. We copied all these images back
onto the card and then formatted the SD card using the Windows format tool and
changed the file system from the file system from FAT32 to NTFS. Interestingly
this software was not able to recover any of the images both in standard and
advance scan after that. Moreover, this solution could only format portable
media and can't be used for recovering files from hard drives .
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Bottomline: Support for wide-variety of
multimedia formats makes this software good for home users.