Save the Game With The EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard

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We’ve all stared into the oblivion of a dead hard drive and faced the prospect of spending hours trying to recover data. Whether it’s a crashed drive, unexpectedly formatting your Switch SD card, or forgetting to safely remove a cable. There are so many ways that you can be left with a useless piece of flash.

Thanks to EaseUS, a name many of you might have used to traverse hard drives, this data loss is far from terminal. We took the EaseUS Data Recovery Pro into action to see if there is a way to get back in the game after a catastrophic wipe.

The EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is a dedicated data recovery program that includes a range of features to allow individuals and businesses to get their important documents back in one piece. This software comes in three distinct iterations. A free copy provides limited functionality and allows the quick recovery of 500MB at a time. This is, obviously, limited and provides a restricted feature set. Pro and Technicians of the software are available across PC and Mac devices, and we got to grips with our own data disaster using the Pro version.

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Pro Utility

The pro version of the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard comes in at a reasonable $69.95 or local equivalent and adds a huge range of functionality to the free software. The inclusion of unlimited data recovery is easily the biggest advantage to this upgrade but there are a bunch of other features that make EaseUS’ offering worth grabbing before you give up on your dead drive. These include:

Easy Recovery Wizard
Over 1000 Recognised File Types
Unlimited Data Recovery
File Preview Before Recovery
Functions on Deleted, Hidden, Lost, or RAW Partitions
EaseUS Remote Consultation and Support

EaseUS Of Use

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Before we even get busy urging data it’s worth considering how easy systems such as these are to use. The EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is clearly designed to make your data easily accessible. Many of the market’s free or open source systems are perfectly good at pulling raw data but they’re also time-consuming. EaseUS has dispensed with command lines and function tables. Instead of opening the EaseUS recovery application prompts any user with a simple breakdown of the disks available to scan. It even manages to flag the type of disk and even highlights lost partitions. In addition, folders can be individually selected from the bottom of the start screen. Pinned to each of the available locations is a scan option, just to ensure that it couldn’t be much easier to kick off recovery. With such a simple interface it’s probably too easy to assume that the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is just as simple under the hood. To test this, we ran through some reasonable and not so reasonable scenarios with the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

Please Delete Me Let Me Go

Recently, I made it out to a press event where I recorded and quickly deleted a streaming session for a major new MMO. I still have the 32 GB Kingston USB 3.0 drive to hand.

Starting with a seemingly empty drive we found that recovering this mkv video file was a relatively simple job with files clearly located and listed as part of a scan that took around 5 minutes on this 32GB drive. While that might not seem incredibly fast, this is going to be limited by the speed of the drive quite directly and the clock counter on the EaseUS utility was pleasantly accurate. The video took less than a minute to finally recover and save to my laptop hard drive where it played in all its excruciating glory but you aren’t getting to see it quite yet.

Final Format

As I really don’t want this video to see the light of day, we figured that formatting the drive might help. This still didn’t defeat the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, following through the same process to perform a full rez on my video file. In the end, it took a deliberate erasure of our flash drive using a DoD style overwrite to finally get rid of the incriminating video. If you really want to see what we recovered, you can check out the result of my ramblings here, and it is in pretty good condition after repeated recoveries using the EaseUS utility

The Final Save

At the beginning of this article, we talked about getting back in the game and while the EaseUS Recovery Wizard might be fantastic at grabbing back files from broken or deleted file systems, there is one almighty fear that I have. Despite a Nintendo Switch Online account, cloud saves are a precarious thing when you’re mobile and if the worst happens, can EaseUS help us get back our progress? I put my own Nintendo Switch SD Card on the line here for a more practical test.

This is my new Nintendo Switch Lite and I’ve been playing Square Enix’s Octohedron on it. I just started this morning so there’s a saved file sitting on my SD card. What happens if that vanishes.

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Running through the normal scan and recovery process I was able to pinpoint the artificially lost file and recover it. Even better on adding the save files back onto my Switch Lite’s SD card, I got my saved game of Octohedron back and running. The EaseUS Recovery Wizard really did get me back in the game.

While the EaseUS Recovery Wizard Pro might not be intended to grab your Switch Saves back form oblivion, it clearly speaks to the capability of this software. In our tests, it managed to recover some non-standard file types from disk formats, deletions, and artificial disasters. If you’ve ever had a hard drive crash then the simplicity of the EaseUS Recovery Wizard Pro can at least take some of the strain out of getting your data back. We’re even able to take the strain off your wallet too. Thanks to EaseUS we have a 50% discount available to Gamespace readers who pick up the Recovery Pro Software. Check out this and all EaseUS’ other software services over at the official EaseUS website now.

 

 

Thanks to EaseUS who sponsored us to take a look at this software

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