Recovery Star

Recovery Star is a small software program that can be used in order to aid individuals in repairing damaged or corrupted CDs and DVDS, verify their integrity, encrypt them and extract their contents to the hard drive.

Surprisingly enough, this utility is portable, which means that you can easily bypass the installation process. In addition to that, it is not going to add any new items to the HDD or Windows registry without your approval (unlike installers) and it is not going to leave any kind of traces behind after its removal.

Most importantly, you should know it is possible to run Recovery Star on any PC you come in contact with, by simply placing the program files to an USB thumb drive or other similar removable storage device.

Presenting a minimal and clean design, this interface is encompasses a menu bar, several buttons, two slider bars and a pane in which to view the contents of the hard disk as a folder structure. It becomes quite clear that all user categories can work with it, as there are even some pretty extensive Help contents you can take advantage of.

This software tool enables you to change the total volumes count and coding redundancy with the help of the built-in slider bars. In addition to that, you can test the speed of your computer when it comes to working with the Reed-Solomon coder with just a click of the button, as well as test the volume collection containing data and repair it.

Moreover, you can extract the contents of a DVD or CD with ease, and save them to a custom location, as well as protect them from prying eyes, by inputting a password and with an AES-256 algorithm.

The amount of resources required is moderate to high, depending on the process under way, which is actually to be expected from this type of products. All jobs are completed in a timely manner, the interface is suitable to all users and there are sufficient options to keep you busy for quite a while.

Taking all of this into consideration, we can safely say Recovery Star is a pretty efficient and reliable piece of software.