It only works directly with the disk, and you may not want to use it on a failing drive. Unlike its rivals, Premium Recovery Suite doesn't offer the option to create a disk image and recover files from the image. The menu that appears after the software has searched your disk for lost files is more helpful it lets you filter by date, path, or file type, but there are far fewer choices here than in other apps. There is a Settings icon in the lower left of the window-but it leads only to a choice of interface languages and a screen that tells you that the software is licensed, which you presumably already know. The minimal interface also has the fewest user-configurable options I've seen in any software in this category. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery (for Mac) Review There's also a Mac version that costs $99-more on this below. In other words, recovering 24 files one at a time would use up your license in one shot, whereas selecting the same 24 files and recovering them all at once would only take up one of your 24 recovery shots. You can use the software to scan a disk as often as you like, but each time you actually tell the program to recover one or more files, that counts as one of your 24 allowed uses.

I tested the Premium version of Seagate Recovery Suite, which costs $79.99 for a one-year license that allows it be installed on one system and used 24 times. However, in testing it couldn't recover as many files as our top software in this field, Ontrack EasyRecovery and Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery, and its license limits the number of times you can use the program-and that limitation may be enough to send you elsewhere. In fact, the app performs well, and it has an exceptionally clear and usable interface. Given that Seagate has been making high-quality hard disks for years, you'd expect its Premium Recovery Suite to be a top contender among data recovery software.

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