Recover Linux with Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery

Data loss is a common threat for the computer users, which can happen due to software malfunction, virus attack, accidental formatting of hard drive volumes, accidental deletion of important files or directories and many other reasons. User never knows when the data loss will occur. But there is no need to panic! Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery software is here for your help.

I am a Linux Server administrator in a software company. I had a great pleasure to test the outstanding Linux data recovery software of Stellar known as Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery. I have worked with several Linux data recovery software to recover data from virus affected drives, formatted Linux volumes and corrupted file system volumes, but I found this software the best one among all of them.

I tested this software on three different Linux hard drives having different data loss cases. All these drives had different files systems and Linux flavors. The drives had the subsequent troubles:

• Accidental Formatting
• File System Corruption
• Lost Linux volumes

I installed the software on Windows based computer and attached particular drive and recovered data from them. My experience in each case is explained here:

Accidental Formatting

In case of accidental formatting, the logical volumes of the Linux hard drive appear as just they did before the formatting. I selected the particular logical volume and started the Scan. First I tried Standard Scan and the software retrieved few of the folders then I tried Advanced Scan to perform in depth search of the drive and it retrieved all of the lost data.

During the advanced scan, I found that it takes more time than Standard Scan but gives more sophisticated results. This method recovers all of the data and can be called for any type of file, unlike the Raw File Recovery method which scans for the known file types.

File System Corruption

It was somewhat complicated case as compared to other ones. I knew that this case could be addressed only by the powerful data recovery software which provides Raw File Recovery option. As a powerful and highly developed data recovery Linux software, Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery software offers this amazing feature.

I launched the software and scanned the affected hard drive using Raw File Recovery option of the software. After almost 1 hour of processing, the software had given me the list of all the files which had lost due to file system corruption. I found a unique feature in this software that the user itself can add a file signature if it has not been included in the software’s list of file signatures.

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Lost Linux Volumes

It was the final test of the performance, efficiency and powerfulness of this Linux recovery software and it had cleared the same in an effective fashion. I plugged the affected hard drive and launched the software. Instantly the drive was discovered by the software and manufacturer and size of the same was shown. I double clicked on the drive and it gave me three choices: Scan for Logical Volumes, Raw Data Recovery and Create Image.

I selected Scan for Logical Volumes option as my logical volume was lost and after a short processing it showed me the list of logical volume. I double clicked on the required volume, from which I had to recover the data, and it again gave me two options- Standard Scan and Advanced Scan. I selected Advanced Scan and the software started processing. After completion of the processing, it displayed all of the lost data.

If you are a general computer user, I mean not much technical, then you must be thinking that I had recovered my data so easily because I am a Linux professional, but nothing like that. You also can recover your data very easily using Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery software as it has an interactive user interface with rich graphical support.

No write operation was performed by this ultimate Linux recovery software because of its read only and non destructive nature. You can get the latest updates using the Live Update of the software. The free demo version of this data recovery Linux utility is available here on Stellar’s website which you can use to check out the amount of recoverable data, skills and user interface of the software and many other features. You can have more information on this program here: http://data-recovery-linux.com/linux-ext2-ext3-reiserfs-recovery.php