Lose important word/excel documents, precious photos, significant emails, or other valuable files? Don’t worry, for MiniTool provides users with a wonderful data recovery utility, namely MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition.

Like most recovery programs, Power Data Recovery Free Edition is able to recover deleted files, retrieve file from suddenly disappeared partition, and restore data from formatted or inaccessible drive. Nevertheless, those are not unique capabilities of Power Data Recovery Free Edition, but Digital Media Recovery and CD/DVD Recovery make the program outstanding. Launch the utility and we can see these 2 features:

“Digital Media Recovery”: scan and recover images/photos, music, video and other media files only, which can save a lot of time. More importantly, it even supports the photo formats defined by manufacturers, like CRW, CR2, DCR, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, RAF, and SRF.

“CD/DVD Recovery”: with it, you are able to recover deleted and erased data from CD/DVD or even retrieve data on slightly defective or scratched CD/DVD, and this feature cannot be found on most data recovery programs.

Both basic functions and outstanding capabilities of Power Data Recovery Free Edition make data recovery possible under most situations. Nevertheless, the very program will fail if the storage has been physically damaged (slight CD/DVD damage is not included). We really hope MiniTool would make a big breakthrough on this aspect, and also hope Power Data Recovery is able to repair damaged files like EasyRecovery.

In Power Data Recovery Free Edition, there are 4 time-saving features, namely “Advanced Setting”, “Find file”, “Advanced Filter”, and “File Preview”:

“Advanced Setting”: you can appoint desired file systems or file types to scan.

“Find file”: click this icon, input file name, and select “Find Next”. Then, the very file can be found. Nevertheless, users should remember the exact file name.

“File Preview”: allow users to preview files before recovery so that mistaken recovery can be avoided effectively. Nevertheless, users are just allowed to preview files less than 20MB.

“Advanced Filter”: with it, users can appoint desired file formats to scan. For example, if we just want to recover zip files, we can choose “*.zip, *.rar, *.cab” to scan specified files only.

Moreover, Power Data Recovery Free Edition supports all popular disk technologies, like dynamic disk (including simple volume, mirrored volume, striped volume, spanned volume, and RAID 5 volumes), GPT disk, SSD disk, and so on. It also supports data recovery on different types of portable storage devices, such as SD card, CF card, Multimedia Card, USB flash drive, iPod, and so forth. At the same time, it can be compatible with mainstream Windows operating systems, including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, etc. But disappointingly, it just allows users to recover 1GB data for free, and users can make use of it according to practical demands.