By Dale Farris, Secretary
Golden Triangle PC Club
September 2002

EasyRecovery Professional to the Rescue

Whether you are a computer technician, a business executive, or a home user, there are multiple ways for your critical data to become lost or corrupted. Now with EasyRecovery Professional, there is a simple way to restore this important data.

EasyRecovery Professional is a complete solution for data recovery, file repair, and disk diagnostic needs. The program includes all of the features in the separate EasyRecovery Data Recovery program, as well as the EasyRecovery FileRepair program, plus the super disk diagnostics in the Ontrack Data Advisor program, and advanced data recovery capabilities and options.

EasyRecovery Professional contains advanced data recovery capabilities that allow you to search more than 225 different file types, including MIDI music files, voice files, digital media files, and more. In addition, you can also use the included Emergency Boot Diskette to recover data from systems that cannot boot to Windows.

In addition to the new, more powerful data recovery engine, EasyRecovery Professional now has the power to repair Zip files and Microsoft Outlook, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word files. The additional disk diagnostic features, including Ontrack Data Advisor, provide valuable system diagnostic tools to quickly evaluate the health of a hard drive.

The new graphical user interface makes the program very easy to use, while offering multiple options, comprehensive features, and functionality to appease all types of users.

When used in conjunction with an anti-virus package, EasyRecovery Professional becomes a one-stop shop for recovering from new virus infections. Use the program to wipe viruses clean from your system, and recover and restore data lost or repair files corrupted due to computer viruses.

Key Features

New improved graphical user interface similar to award-winning SystemSuite

Supports DOS, Windows 3.x systems Supports 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP systems

Recovers files from IDE/EIDE/ATA and SCSI hard drives, floppy diskettes, Zip and Jaz removable media

Recovers lost or deleted files, folders, complete partitions or entire drives

Ability to preset file filters before beginning recovery process to optimize recovery results

Advanced File Filtering Options, and File Find capabilities

Even if you can't boot to Windows, recover your data using the Emergency Boot Diskette

Ability to stop, and later resume, the recovery or copying process

Ability to copy recovered data to an FTP destination

Ability to automatically ZIP files during recovery to copy destination

Advanced RawRecovery options including the ability to enter custom file types and signatures

View contents of any file in both ASCII and hex format to find the data you need

Ability to define partition and file system parameters to aid in recovery process

Configure system inputs with advanced tuning options to achieve better and faster data recovery results

Specify criteria to select recovered files and/or folders for backup using advanced tagging options to pinpoint specific data

Ability to generate reports to document your data recovery backup or file repair

Repair corrupted or damaged Zip archive files

Repair corrupted Microsoft Word files

Repair corrupted Microsoft Access databases including restoring tables, forms, queries, reports and macros

Repair corrupted Microsoft Excel files including restoring text, multi-sheet structures, formulas, cell attributes, and graphics

Repair corrupted Microsoft PowerPoint files including restoring animation, master settings, notes, shapes, text, and WordArt

Repair corrupted Microsoft Outlook files (PST & OST)

Recover deleted e-mails from within Microsoft Outlook files (PST & OST)

Repair and restore Microsoft Outlook files exceeding the 2GB limitation

Ability to perform Hard Disk SMART diagnostic tests

Includes ability to perform Quick or Full surface scans of your hard disk

Perform File system diagnostic tests of FAT/NTFS partitions

Includes Data Advisor boot diskette creator

Additional EasyRecovery Software Products

The free EasyRecovery Professional Trial edition identifies and allows you to view deleted and corrupted files that can be recovered and restored with the full, licensed edition of EasyRecovery Professional. As an added benefit, the Zip repair component is fully functional and it allows you to recover and repair deleted or corrupted Zip files.

The EasyRecovery Professional Commercial License is licensed per technician, for commercial and consulting use, to recover, repair, and restore data. EasyRecovery Professional software can only be used on one system at a time. The EasyRecovery Professional Enterprise License is licensed for business and corporate use to internally support up to a designated number of users of an organization.

EasyRecovery FileRepair allows you to repair and restore corrupt files into new, readable files. It's a complete repair and restore solution for corrupted Microsoft Outlook, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Zip files, and it requires less technical sophistication than many software applications. EasyRecovery FileRepair is a cost-effective solution for your data loss needs.

EasyRecovery Data Recovery is a simple, yet powerful tool that recovers data that is lost, inaccessible, or deleted. It's the ultimate do-it-yourself solution for nearly all causes of data loss (except physical hardware or system problems), where your hard drive and system are fully functional. It allows you to quickly and easily recover lost or deleted data, including files, folders, and complete partitions. Plus, you get an Emergency Boot Diskette that helps recover data from systems that cannot boot to Windows.

While EasyRecovery products are very powerful data recovery tools, even the most powerful software cannot safely recover data lost as a result of a physical hardware failure. Such severe data loss situations require the expertise of an engineer. However, Ontrack's Remote Data Recovery and their In-Lab Data Recovery services offer a quick, cost-effective, and secure data recovery solution to meet these more serious data recovery needs.

EasyRecovery software may not resolve all data loss situations. Some instances may be very complex or severe in nature, and require professional data recovery services performed by an expert data recovery engineer. If EasyRecovery software does not meet your data recovery or file repair needs, you may apply the cost of your EasyRecovery software purchase toward the cost of a data recovery service - up to a maximum value of $500 (maximum applied value of $500 for EasyRecovery Commercial and Enterprise Licensing purchases). This offer is valid within 30 days from the day of purchase, and proof of purchase is required.

Targeted Customers

The key customers of EasyRecovery Professional include IT professionals, computer service and repair technicians, computer consultants, small office or home office computer users, law enforcement, government entities, computer enthusiasts, and anyone who uses a computer and stores valuable information.

Computer users who do not regularly back up their data to a selected secondary storage device will most especially be very interested in having access to this program, since their computer system will certainly crash one day. When it does, these users will be scrambling for something to help them recover their data files they did not back up. Even those who do regularly back up their system will find the program of great importance, as invariably computers seem to crash right in the middle of a backup routine that has not yet included certain important files that the user desperately needs.

Ontrack Data International, Inc.

Ontrack Data International, Inc. and its subsidiary, Ontrack Data Recovery Europe Limited, has its headquarters in Minneapolis, with offices around the world. Originally begun as a 1985 offshoot from Control Data Corporation, Ontrack Computer Systems, Inc. focused on the data storage market, and the company has continued to expand ever since. With the increased need by so many computer owners for data protection and recovery, due to mechanical, software, or virus problems, this led to the data recovery initiative that has also continued.

With the emphasis on data recovery, this naturally led to ways to prevent data loss, with the end product being this suite of utilities. In July 1999, Ontrack acquired the Mijenix Corporation that allowed them to further expand their utilities for problem solving, file management and productivity. 

Now, their lineup is fully developed and sold through offices in 9 cities on 3 continents.

Install and Setup

Once you load this program, you will quickly be able to both register the program, as well as update it. Also note that this program does expect some degree of technical computer literacy, and is certainly not recommended for those still new to computers. However, computer technicians with experience in rebuilding systems and in troubleshooting Windows problems will definitely be able to very quickly grasp the easy-to-use interface and understand how the program operates and how to instruct it.

Price

$   499.00 One PC license
$   999.00 Commercial license - One technician
$   799.00 Enterprise license - 50 users - internally support up to 50 users
$   999.00 Enterprise license - 100 users
$1,299.00 Enterprise license - 500 users

System Configuration Requirements

486 or Pentium class processor
DOS, Windows 3.x, 95, 98, 98 SE, 98 ME
Win NT 4, XP, 2000 for Professional Edition
16MB RAM (in most cases)
IDE/EIDA/ATA and SCSI hard disks, floppy diskettes, zip, jazz media
150MB free space for installation only

Contact

Customer Service
Kroll Ontrack, Inc.
9023 Columbine Road
Eden Prairie, MN 55347
Toll Free: 1-800-872-2599
1-952-906-4860
FAX 1-952-937-5750
customerservice@ontrack.com
www.ontrack.com