![]() Over the decades I’ve provided tech support professionally and maintained training rooms full of PCs. They’re desperate to get them back.ĭata Rescue offers exactly that sort of help.įrom time to time I’ll hear from someone who can’t open a crucial file, or who formatted the wrong drive, or whose computer just died and lost all of their files. Over the last week or so I’ve been testing a licensed pre-release copy of the newly released version 5 of the program. I used a variety of drives, including the internal SSD of my macOS High Sierra based MacBook Air, an external spinning hard drive, and a USB flash drive. Users have the right to know what is and isn’t working about a product, so I’ve run every scan and thoroughly tested every feature. In this Data Rescue review, I’ll share what I like and dislike about this data recovery software. Read on for the details! Prosoft Data Rescue FAQs The content in the quick summary box above serves as a short version of my findings and conclusions. It can recover files on a drive that’s been accidentally deleted or formatted. It can help restore files from a corrupt drive. It can clone a dying drive onto a working drive. It’s amazing how much information you can store on a hard drive, whether it’s a collection of spinning magnetic platters or a solid-state SSD. It’s also reassuring how reliable they are.īut nothing’s perfect. Hard drives fail, and data can become lost or corrupted. Files can also be lost through human error when the wrong file is deleted or the wrong drive is formatted. Hopefully, you back up your data regularly.īut what if you lose an important file that you haven’t backed up? That’s where Prosoft Data Rescue comes in. According to Prosoft Engineering, Data Rescue 5 is the largest update they have ever done to their flagship product. The software boasts a new consistent cross-platform user experience for both Mac and Windows users while the new guided click recovery will greatly reduce confusion and intimidation allowing the users to achieve their goal of getting their data back. No, it’s not free, though there’s a demonstration version available that lets you see which files can be restored before you pay for the app. The demo version can’t actually recover the files, but it will show you exactly which lost files the full version can find. That gives you email and live chat support and a limit of five drives that can be recovered. You can also purchase the program on an external storage device, and a professional $299 annual subscription is available to those who want to use it on an unlimited number of drives. I ran and installed Data Rescue on my macOS Sierra based MacBook Air. Interrupting Data Rescue when it is working on a disk can cause corruption.Ī scan using Bitdefender found no viruses or malicious code. This may happen if a laptop’s battery goes flat during a scan. When Data Rescue detects that you are running on battery power, it displays a message warning you of this. You can run Data Rescue from your computer like any other app. You can also run it from a bootable USB drive, or create yourself using the app’s Create Recovery Drive option. ![]() Note: this feature is only available for professional licensed versions If you purchase the software for a personal license you won’t see it. ![]() This is especially useful when your main drive is failing and can no longer boot. ![]() Just install the program and enter your serial number. You’ll need some external storage when scanning your computer’s internal drive. When attempting to rescue data, it is best not to write to the drive you are restoring from, or you may inadvertently overwrite the data you are trying to restore. For that reason, when you need to recover files from your Mac’s hard drive, Data Rescue will have you choose another drive for its working files. Scan the drive using either the Quick Scan or Deep Scan, then preview and recover the files you need.ĭata Rescue 5 is available for both PC and Mac, costing $99.00 for the Standard version. The Professional version costs $299 for an annual subscription.īesides supporting different operating systems, the Mac and Windows versions have a few other differences, for example, the Mac version has a FileIQ feature which allows the app to learn new Mac file types that aren’t currently supported.
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