Nearly everyone has accidentally deleted photos, videos, or documents and regretted doing so later on. And sometimes, external hard drives, USB drives, and SD cards can become corrupted or fail to work properly. Having a data recovery app helps you restore important data in these situations.

iBoysoft Data Recovery has a mixture of simple and advanced features combined into a clear and intuitive interface. The app is easy to use, even for novices. Let's look at iBoysoft and the features it offers to make data recovery easy.

What Platforms Does iBoysoft Data Recovery Support?

iBoysoft is available for both Windows and Mac. Its list of supported operating systems is impressive:

  • Windows: Supports Windows XP, 7, 8, and 10. Also works with Windows Server 2003 to 2019.
  • Mac: Supports Mac OS X 10.7 Lion through macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Why Use iBoysoft Data Recovery?

When you launch the app for the first time, you'll find that the user interface is straightforward. It displays a list of all your internal drives, plus external drives (if any). There's no feature bloat or any preferences to worry about.

iBoysoft Data Recovery has two scanning modes. Quick scanning mode is time-saving and runs by default. Meanwhile, a deep scan runs a thorough search to find more recoverable files, but takes more time. Both scan methods allow for a pre-recovery preview of the documents and photos.

iBoysoft data recovery tool

Recover Almost Any Type of Files

iBoysoft Data Recovery helps you recover deleted or lost files of any type, including documents, music, photos, and more from different devices. There's also an option to recover only selected types of files.

Select your drive and click Next to start the scanning process. Preview the results, choose the files you want to get back, and click Recover.

iBoysoft file recovery process

Get Back Data From Any Storage Media

iBoysoft's app can recover data from any storage media, including external hard drives, USB drives, and SD cards. You can increase the chance of recovery by acting quickly, in order to prevent the lost files from getting overwritten. Note that fusion drives and RAID drives are not supported.

In limited testing with USB drives, I was able to recover 90% of photos, after formatting the disk a few days prior. This illustrates that you can recover data from formatted, corrupted, and unreadable drives.

Access Data From BitLocker-Encrypted Drives

With iBoysoft Data Recovery, you can even recover data from Windows drives that use BitLocker encryption. Launch the app and click the BitLocker Data Recovery option from the upper-right corner. Select the drive that contains your BitLocker encrypted partition and click Next.

Finally, choose the partition containing your deleted or lost data and enter the password or the recovery key to decrypt the data. The scanning process and decryption will take some time; try not to use your computer during this procedure.

Recover data from Bitlocker partion with iBoysoft

Recover Files From Startup and Unbootable Macs

If your Mac won't boot properly, you can use iBoysoft Data Recovery in your Mac's recovery environment. By holding Cmd + Option + R as you boot your device, you'll reach internet recovery mode. Using the Utilities menu at the top of this screen, you can access a Terminal window and run the following command to launch iBoysoft Data Recovery: 

        s='/private/var/tmp/boot.sh' && curl -o $s http://boot.iboysoft.com/boot.sh && chmod 777 $s && $s

Alternatively, you can create a bootable drive with iBoysoft's Mac data recovery app and use it when your Mac gets stuck on the login screen or won't turn on. To do this, use a USB 3 device with at least 16GB of space for macOS startup files.

An All-In-One Data Recovery App

iBoysoft Data Recovery is an easy, simple to use, and relatively inexpensive data recovery app available for both Windows and Mac. Although there is no guarantee you'll recover everything you lost, considering its built-in features, it's worth giving this app a try.

The free version lets you recover data up to 1GB. If you need more, the Home edition will cost you $69.95. You can also consider the Professional edition for $199 (Windows) and $99.95 (Mac).

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