losing files and data can be devastating but oftentimes we can recover data that's been deleted
formatted corrupted and in many cases encrypted by ransomware let's talk about it
i've covered data recovery solutions extensively on this channel but what i haven't covered thus
far is the number one selling brand stellar who also sponsored this video now before you
torch me in the comments let me set the record straight this is not going to be
some puppet shill where i regurgitate a bunch of marketing slogans at the behest of the sponsor
now this will be an impartial review as well as a tutorial on how to recover data using
stellar data recovery professional edition now let's go ahead and get started first go ahead
and click the link in description it's going to take you right here to stellar's website
and then we're going to go ahead and download the free version right here while that's downloading
i'll show you a little bit about how this works now data recovery is very sophisticated
but the short version of how it works is that for example on this 3.5 inch hard disk drive
if something's deleted in windows by putting it in the recycle bin and then emptying the recycle bin
it's not gone it's just moved from one part of the drive to another scheduled for overwrite in
the case of a format the partitions have been erased but the data within those partitions
is often still there in the case of ransomware it's often just deleted because get this a lot
of ransomware is sloppy it will actually make a copy of your original files encrypt those
and then erase the originals you can recover those unencrypted originals with data recovery software
now the download is complete let's go ahead and install it first you're going to have this come up
and it's going to ask you to select the language we're going to select english for myself you can
select whatever language is best for you and then click ok then here we're going to go next
we're going to accept the license agreement next and then we're going to choose where
we're going to install it for this case we're going to leave it in the default
hello everyone today i will show you the best way to recover no you're not taking my job now
that it's done installing we can go ahead and leave this checked because we're going
to launch stellar data recovery we're going to hit finish and then it'll open the program
and once stellar recovery opens you're going to see this menu here it's a very simple clean menu
that this is the part where you will decide what you're going to recover for example what types of
files if you're only going to do office documents such as word excel powerpoint pdfs and whatnot
then only select this by default is selecting all data but if you're only looking for specific types
of files i advise you to uncheck that and select just the types of files that you are looking for
for example if you're missing a bunch of folders or office documents photos then select all that
apply but don't check anything that doesn't apply because you will get random data and it
also will increase the time that it takes for it to recover data for example if you're recovering
from a 12 terabyte hard disk drive and you tell it to recover everything it might take two days where
areas if you're just trying to find a particular folder that had files in it it might be done in
a matter of minutes to test the ability of stellar data recovery professional we're going to go ahead
and prepare my hard drive for data recovery i'm going to go ahead and copy my camera roll over to
my western digital red plus i've created a folder called lost data and i'm gonna paste that here
my camera roll has a bunch of my thumbnails i use for youtube and we'll also put a video in here
and which one we'll use doesn't really matter we'll copy this one and we'll bring it over there
paste that there and then we'll also make an office document test document
okay and then we'll save that there as well put that over here
and in lost data
test and we'll save it as a word document
and then we will save it okay on the next screen we're going to select office documents photos and
videos we're also going to select folders because in this folder i do have a folder within a folder
so i don't want to lose that okay so we have test document video and camera roll so we're going to
select all that apply here we're not going to select anything else because we don't want to
recover anything else because we know that it would just be raw data so we'll hit next now
here is where we select the location if you're trying to recover ransomware data you might want
to choose location here and maybe choose your users documents and then maybe your desktop
your downloads pictures so you can select the manual folder right there
you can also choose just documents you can choose a specific drive and it'll try to recover
the entire drive if it's from a corrupted drive like it could have been your d
drive that that is no longer registered or it could be your your original c drive and you're
booting from a flash drive if you can't find the drive you would choose this one and it can recover
a lost partition so a lot of options very powerful we're going to choose location
and we're going to go to western digital red plus and then we're going to select within lost data
okay but first we want to delete all that data so i'm going to go in here
and i'm going to shift delete you sure you want to permanently delete these three items
yes i do do i want to permanently delete it yes okay so everything's been deleted it's not in the
recycle bin and then we're going to go ahead and make sure we have the right place listen to red
plus there's nothing there we're going to select that folder and then we're going to go to scan
now it already said no data found in quick scan so it's switching to a deep scan
and this may take a while so i'm going to go ahead and grab a coffee and i'll come right back when
it's done all right and the deep scan is complete at this point is telling us what data it found
during its scan it hasn't actually recovered it yet so using the trial version you can totally do
all this part to see if it's even going to recover your data for example we're not going to be
looking at here we have raw data which has a whole bunch of stuff that might have been from things
got deleted a long time ago but we were looking for the lost data folder and in here we have
the camera roll we have all these thumbnails and looks like they're intact we can see through the
preview without purchasing the software yet also within here there's our test document
um no you're not taking my job uh that's that one so we can actually preview and see if the
files are functioning before the data recovery so we're going to go ahead and we're going to uncheck
everything and we're just going to select the lost data folder and then we're going to hit recover
now at this part you can't recover data from the same drive and put it on the same
drive that you're recovering data from so we're going to select i'm going to select my c drive
and i'm going to make a new folder called recovered data you can put it anywhere you
can put it on a flash drive if it's big enough you could put it on your c drive on your desktop
wherever you like in this case i'm going to put it in this folder i'm creating called
recover data i'm going to select that folder under advanced settings you can also put it into a zip
file for compression some other options there but in this case we're just going to recover it and
we're going to save it to c forward slash recover data we're going to start saving and it's moving
all the files that it found during the scan that we selected and it's moving it over to that folder
so now i'm going to go ahead and go here to my c drive and to recover data and into this folder
i found my lost data folder and then here is the test document it's functioning it's
intact this video no it's working camera roll all of my pictures are intact and recovered
so that that worked now while that test went off perfectly there's a lot of competition in
the data recovery market and as far as why i think stellar is above and beyond the rest is not only
because they are tech radar's editor's choice but they cover so many types of storage whether their
hard drives ssds sd card cds dvds even hidden partitions but also the consistency and strength
of the algorithm and that is what allows it to scan and find all those different types of files
whether they're movie files pictures documents i mean even outlook files even files from crash
systems and also consistency is king in all of my years of using data recovery software
the best results i've gotten was from stellar which i've been using a long time they've been
in the game for a long time they've been on top for a while and there are many reasons why they
are the best now if you were following along and you recovered less than one gigabyte of data you
might have noticed that you don't have to pay for anything that's right one gigabyte of free data
recovery is included with the basic free version of stellar if you need to recover more than one
gigabyte of data you will need at least the one year license which after 10 is off it's 89.99
and above that is the premium version which is going to include repairing corrupted files that
have been damaged somehow which can happen but if you don't not worry about damage files you can go
with just the basic professional and above that is technician which is only recommended for corporate
commercial environments if you're running an i.t department or a pc repair shop
because they're going to cover raid devices and network drives things like that and that's a bit
on the pro level so if you're just a home user you're most likely okay with the professional
version and congratulations on making it to the end of the video huge shout out to stellar
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