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Speed Data Recovery

Speed Data Recovery

Developer Website: https://www.speedrecovery.com/

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
Reviewed Version: 7.3.8

Overall Product Rating: 4.8

A program with a good basic wizard interface, very poor localization, average demo restrictions, an average file previewer, a very mediocre file recovery feature set, and average recovery performance.

Its strong points are: A good file recovery performance for deleted and damaged partitions.

Its weak points are: A very poor localization (only the English interface language), no logging capabilities, and no S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.

Interface and Features

  • Speed Data Recovery (ver. 7.3.8)
File recovery features: 3.2Compare

File recovery parameters: 4.5Compare

Recovers filenames and the folder structure. It’s possible to open the folder with recovered files upon completion of the recovery process.

Disk imaging and copying: 3.0Compare

The program only can open disk images.

File systems supported for file recovery: 5.0Compare

FAT/exFAT, NTFS/NTFS5, HFS+, ext2/3

Deep analysis of disks (disk scan): 4.5Compare

A drive object to scan can be specified. Also there’s an option to Select Location – Scanning Snapshots, Directory, Desktop, Image, Recycle bin. Scan be paused and then resumed. Two sections appear after disk scan: Normal files and Files found (apparently raw files). Scan results can be saved and then loaded.

S.M.A.R.T.: 0.0Compare

No S.M.A.R.T. capabilities.

File search, mark for recovery, sorting: 4.0Compare

Files can be sorted by their Path, Type, Created Date, and Modified Date. Objects can be shown as an object list or as icons. The list can be sorted by clicking column names. Files can be filtered by their names, size, creation, and modification times.

Logging: 0.0Compare

No logging capabilities.

File recovery using file signatures (raw file recovery): 4.5Compare

Supports raw file recovery with a pre-defined file signature set. File types to search for cannot be selected. Found files appear in the Files found section.

Localization Support: 4.3Compare

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Languages supported: Only English.

Recognized all tested localized characters in file and folder names.

Demo version restrictions: 4.5Compare

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Files can only be recovered one-by-one in the free version. No time limit for the demo mode.

File preview: 4.5Compare

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The built-in previewer can show doc, docx, txt, xls, xlsx, jpg, and png files. Files can also be previewed in their respective applications. It also has a hexadecimal viewer.

File recovery performance

Deleted files: 5.5Compare

Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (NTFS file system): 5.5Compare

After disk scan All files and the entire original folder structure were found in their original places and successfully recovered, except 1 mkv file.

Overall, all but one file and the original folder structure were successfully recovered.

Files that were not recovered: 1 mkv file.

Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (exFAT file system): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan All files and the entire original folder structure were found in their original places and almost all were successfully recovered. Some files and folders had the ! character at the beginning of their names. 4 mp4 and 1 mpeg files appeared damaged. The mpeg file was found in raw files (the Files found section) and successfully recovered.

Overall, almost all original files and folder structure were successfully recovered. 1 mpeg file was recovered as a raw file.

Files that could not be recovered: 4 mp4 files.

Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (FAT32 file system): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan All files and the entire original folder structure were found in their original places and almost all were successfully recovered. Some files and folders had the ! character at the beginning of their names. 4 mp4 and 1 mpeg files appeared damaged. The mpeg file was found in raw files (the Files found section) and successfully recovered.

Overall, almost all original files and folder structure were successfully recovered. 1 mpeg file was recovered as a raw file.

Files that could not be recovered: 4 mp4 files.

Emptied Recycle Bin: 4.8Compare

Emptied Recycle Bin (NTFS file system): 4.0Compare

The disk had to be mounted.

After Disk Scan All files and folders were found in their original places with correct names. Most of them were successfully recovered, but some of them were not: 5 avi, 5 mp4, 1 mpeg, 1 mts, 1 mkv, 1 doc, 1 docx, 1 pdf, также 2jpg, 1 pdf, and 1 avi files.

Overall, most files were successfully recovered, and the original folder structure was recovered.

**Files that were not recovered:**6 avi, 5 mp4, 1 mpeg, 1 mts, 1 mkv, 1 doc, 1 docx, 1 pdf files (17 files).

Emptied Recycle Bin (exFAT file system): 5.5Compare

After disk scan All files and the entire original folder structure were found in their original places and successfully recovered, except 1 mkv file.

Overall, all but one file and the original folder structure were successfully recovered.

Files that were not recovered: 1 mkv file.

Disk re-format: 5.1Compare

Reformatted disk (NTFS to NTFS): 3.5Compare

After Disk Scan: Only raw files were found in the Files found section. Many of them were successfully recovered.

Overall, all found files were recovered as raw files; the previous folder structure was not recovered at all.

Files that could not be recovered: 5 mp4, 17 mp3, 3 doc, 3 docx, 2 xls, 2 ods, 6 odt, 1 mkv files. (39 files)

Reformatted disk (NTFS to exFAT): 6.0Compare

After Disk Scan An NTFS partition was found with correct folders and files, which were successfully recovered.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.

Reformatted disk (exFAT to exFAT): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan An Exfat partition was found. Folders and files from the root folder were found in the Dir00010841 folders. The subfolders with their content were found in those and successfully recovered. 2 jpg and pdf files from the root folder were found among raw files (The Files found section). They were successfully recovered.

Overall, all but one file and almost all of original folder structure were successfully recovered.

Files that could not be recovered: 1 avi file.

Reformatted disk (FAT32 to FAT32): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan All files and folders with correct names were found in the Dir00000006 section, except the root folder. All found folders and files were successfully recovered.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.

Reformatted disk (exFAT to NTFS): 5.0Compare

After Disk Scan 4 folders of the Dir00014355 were found in the Exfat section. They corresponded to the folders from the root folder. They were successfully recovered. 2 jpg and 1 pdf files from the root folder were found among raw files with incorrect names. They were successfully recovered. 1 avi file from the root folder was not found.

Overall, all but one file was recovered, but the original folder structure was recovered only partially.

Files that could not be recovered: 1 avi file.

Damaged partition: 5.8Compare

Damaged partition (NTFS): 6.0Compare

After Disk Scan All folders and files with correct names were found in their original places on the found NTFS partition. All of them were successfully recovered.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.

Damaged partition (exFAT): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan: All files and folders were found with correct names and successfully recovered.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.

Damaged partition (FAT32): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan All files and folders were found with correct names and successfully recovered.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.

Damaged partition (exFAT – memory card): 6.0Compare

An exFat partition of the correct size was immediately found.

During Disk Scan Almost immediately, all files and folders were found, with correct names. They were successfully recovered.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered without a long scan.

Deleted partition: 5.5Compare

Deleted partition (NTFS): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan All folders and files were found with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered after disk scan.

Deleted partition (exFAT): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan All files and folders with correct names were found and successfully recovered.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.

Deleted partition (FAT32): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan: All files and folders were found in the Normal files, with correct names. They were successfully recovered.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.

Deleted partition (exFAT – memory card): 5.5Compare

After Disk Scan: All files and folders were immediately found with correct names. They were successfully recovered. Long scan wasn’t needed.

Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.

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