[Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Registration Key
Elis Riebow
Stellar Phoenix takes some time to work through a drive, but this is a non-issue because the program can run in the background without a problem. Depending upon the size of the drive, Stellar Phoenix may take an hour or two to sort through the deleted files. I usually work on my photos in Lightroom while the program runs.
Note: This section was written before the newest version of Stellar Phoenix, Version 7.0. Luckily, the issue with the D800e files has been resolved. As far as I can tell, this software now works well for anyone who needs to recover their files, although I still recommend downloading and testing the free trial before committing to the paid version. The old review is still below, but I have updated the final rating of the product to represent the new version.
Luckily, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery allows you to try the software for free before you purchase it. In this free trial, you can see which images have been found for recovery. Assuming that the recovered photos have an actual file size (as opposed to the zero kilobytes of my D800e photos), I can recommend Stellar Phoenix without any hesitation.
However, you absolutely need to try it before you commit to the full purchase price. As well as Stellar Phoenix works with my D7000, it is all but useless with my primary camera, the D800e. Perhaps there will be an update to the software that fixes this problem (which there was), but until then I cannot recommend the software to everyone.
Stellar Phoenix comes in three versions: Standard, Platinum, and Titanium. The main difference is that the Platinum software (which I reviewed here) will allow you to preview the images and extract thumbnails before you recover them. The Platinum version also helps repair corrupted images, but only JPEGs. Titanium is the only one that can repair corrupt video files. The Standard price is $50, although Stellar Phoenix says that it is on sale from its normal price of $80. The Platinum and Titanium versions are $60 and $100 respectively.
I'm Spencer Cox, a landscape photographer based in Colorado. I started writing for Photography Life a decade ago, and now I run the website in collaboration with Nasim. I've used nearly every digital camera system under the sun, but for my personal work, I love the slow-paced nature of large format film. You can see more at my personal website and my not-exactly-active Instagram page.
Purchased photo recovery professional version, on three attempts crashed each time during scan. contacted support and got no resolution to the problem. I have just purchased again another copy and now on its first install after accepting the registration code it has frozen on the initialising screen. I am resigned to the fact that it is a shady product and recommend that people stay away from Stellar Phoenix products.
Hey I had the very same issue. Contacted their tech support, Luckily, the person I got on touch with was very nice. After a couple of trails, I updated my system and then tried the whole thing again. It worked!
The Software worked amazingly well. I would say to get in touch with them again.
Thank you for your comments. I am actually in the process of sending Phoenix Recovery some samples from my D800e, and they should be able to find the root of the problem. File size is a good point; I will try taking some low-quality jpeg images with the D800e and see how well it recovers those.
I had good experiencies with Rescue Pro 5242 from SanDisk and ImageRescue3 (IR3) from Lexar which I prefer over newer versions like IR4, and IR5. I tried these ones with NEF and JPG files, last time I used them was to recover a few deleted NEF from a Nikon V1, just only one of them worked flawlessly, the other one was unable to perform it task, but to tell the true I dont remember which one failed, and wich one recover the lost images, for JPG both of them works OK. In such a case (lost files) first thing I do if it is a SD card is to slide the card switch to lock hoping the software not to bypass it (as long I know the switch is a software switch and not a hardware one like in Memory Stick, and it just tells the computer not to write, but an ill behaved program can bypass it). By the way the largest card I tried was 8GB, I do bot really know how well or bad they perform on larger card or exFAT.
All these softwares would be checked before disaster happens, and works reasonably fine as long we are not talking about corrupted files, these ones are more dangerous and sometimes it is possible to recover preview image with very old software like PreviewExtractor, Irfanview, and so many others, last resource, not really a solution, but at least able to recover some kind of image usable for documenting purposes and not more than that. I tried these old software twice, when Capture NX135 (long ago) refused to open the corrupted files and literally crashed (WXPSP3 Ctrl-Alt-Del and End Process).
I hope my comments will be useful for somebody.
Disclaimer: I was not paid to review this software, only receiving the full software and registration key for full usability, and this is an honest appraisal of my user experience. I specifically tested the Mac version. You can read more about my policies here.
I was curious to know the difference between regular recovery software and photo recovery software and specifically Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery claims to have improved support for PSD PSP, INDD, JP2, PCT, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, Tiff, JPEG files, as well as video formats and those stored on memory cards. It also claims to:
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