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Kroll Ontrack offers Ontrack EasyRecovery software for both home users and businesses. It is a complete do-it-yourself (DIY) solution for protecting, recovering, and erasing data. The software safeguards data stored on hard drives or SSDs through proactive disk monitoring, helping prevent downtime and data loss.
Ontrack EasyRecovery can recover damaged or deleted files and retrieve data from formatted or corrupt volumes — even from initialized disks. The intuitive DIY software features a wizard-driven interface, making it easy for even novice users to recover data.
This data recovery software is available for Windows and Mac and is offered with annually renewable licenses. All versions perform unlimited recoveries from local storage and external media, and work on all drive types.
Ontrack EasyRecovery Free
Recover up to 1 GB for free with Ontrack EasyRecovery Free — a comprehensive data recovery solution. It restores data from documents, files, folders, photos, videos, and more.
Ontrack EasyRecovery Home
A complete data recovery solution that restores damaged or deleted files, even from initialized disks. Its user-friendly design enables even inexperienced users to recover data effortlessly.
Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional
This edition offers small to medium businesses a do-it-yourself solution to efficiently recover lost or deleted files, folders, documents, photos, videos, and other important data following severe drive corruption or data loss caused by accidental formatting or deletion.
Ontrack EasyRecovery Technician
This edition can recover lost or missing data from hard drives configured in RAID 0, 5, or 6. In addition to including all features of the Home and Professional versions, it is specifically designed to streamline the data recovery process for technicians.
Ontrack EasyRecovery Software Features:
- Supports 300 or more File types
- Recovery of data from formatted and accidentally deleted volumes
- Recovery of deleted files and folders
- Recover lost partition
- Email file recovery
- Document recovery
- Multimedia file recovery
- Resume recovery
- Preview recoverable files before saving
- Optical media recovery (CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HFS, HFS+, HFSX, Rock Ridge, ISO 9660, Joliet, and UDF)
- Recovers data written on discs using packet writing software (InCD, Drag To Disk, Direct CD, DLA)
- Recovers files from RAID 0, 5, and 6 storage
- Supports the creation of a virtual RAID
- It supports recovery from software RAID
- Raw recovery of RAID hard drives
Ontrack EasyRecovery offers for your Windows system
- Save scans and resume recovery later
- Search for a specific type of file in a logical drive or/specific folder.
- Search a specific folder for lost and deleted data
- Simultaneously scan multiple file systems (NTFS, FAT, FAT16, FAT32, and ExFat) in a logical drive
- Recovers from hard disks and removable media, such as USB drives, memory cards, and more.
Ontrack EasyRecovery for your Mac.
- Do-it-yourself data recovery of files, music, photos, videos, and other important documents.
- Stop and start your recovery on your own time.
- Create images of drives or volumes for data recovery from media with bad sectors.
- Options for raw recovery on lost volumes.
- Improved support for HFS+, FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS, and DVD recovery.
Ontrack EasyRecovery – Pros & Cons
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| ✓ Recovers deleted, formatted, damaged, and corrupted data from hard drives, SSDs, removable media, and other storage devices. | ✗ The Free edition limits recovery to 1 GB, so larger recovery jobs require a different edition. |
| ✓ Supports more than 300 file types, covering documents, emails, photos, videos, multimedia files, and other common data. | ✗ Advanced RAID recovery capabilities are associated with the Technician edition, making some professional recovery scenarios unavailable in lower-tier versions. |
| ✓ Lets users preview recoverable files before saving them, helping verify the data before completing recovery. | ✗ Deep or complex recovery operations can take significant time, especially when dealing with corrupted volumes, lost partitions, or large storage devices. |
| ✓ Provides advanced recovery options for lost partitions, optical media, software RAID, and RAID 0, 5, and 6 configurations. | ✗ The wide range of recovery modes, file systems, RAID options, and media types can make advanced recovery workflows more complicated for inexperienced users. |
| ✓ Supports saving scans and resuming recovery later, while also allowing targeted searches for particular files, folders, or file systems. | ✗ The listed Windows requirements cover Windows 7 through Windows 11 and Windows Server editions, while the page separately provides Mac editions rather than a single unified cross-platform version. |
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Ontrack EasyRecovery recover files from a formatted drive?
Yes. It can recover data from formatted volumes as well as accidentally deleted or damaged volumes. The software also supports recovery from lost partitions and lets you preview recoverable files before saving them.
Can Ontrack EasyRecovery recover data from a USB drive?
Yes. It supports recovery from hard drives and removable media such as USB drives and memory cards. You can also search specific folders or file types and save a scan to resume the recovery later.
Can Ontrack EasyRecovery recover files from a RAID drive?
Yes. Advanced editions support recovery from RAID 0, RAID 5, and RAID 6 storage, as well as software RAID and virtual RAID configurations. RAID recovery capabilities vary by edition, with the Technician edition specifically designed for more advanced recovery work.
Is Ontrack EasyRecovery better than EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard?
Both are established data-recovery tools with support for deleted, formatted, and lost data. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard offers a larger free recovery allowance in current comparisons, while Ontrack EasyRecovery provides advanced options such as RAID recovery and optical-media recovery, making the better choice dependent on the recovery scenario.
What’s New in Ontrack EasyRecovery 15:
- Usability enhancements throughout the software
- Many new file formats have been added to the preview to offer users confidence
- Preview recoverable video files with the ability to see the video in full-screen mode
- Preview recoverable content in ZIP and Archive Files
- 4K sector support
- Dual monitor support
Official Homepage – https://www.ontrack.com
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
- Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019.
