MiniTool Power Data Recovery vs EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
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Alejandro S. AuthorLinkedIn -
Yevgeniy T. ApproverLinkedIn
| 5 | Compatibility |
| 5 | Recovery Rate |
| 5 | Usability |
| 5 | File Type Support |
| 5 | Speed |
| 200,000 Found files Good 100% Corrupted 0% Lost 0% | Found files and Recovery quality |
$75 $89 / Perpetual SAVE 15% TODAY | PRO Version |
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Compare We streamlined our evaluation parameters into several clear categories. | ||
| Compatibility | 4 | 5 |
| Recovery Rate | 3 | 3 |
| Usability | 3 | 4 |
| File Type Support | 3 | 4 |
| Speed | 4 | 4 |
| Found files and Recovery quality | 184,947 Found files Good 92% Corrupted 0% Lost 8% | 200,000 Found files Good 100% Corrupted 0% Lost 0% |
| PRO Version | $69.00 / 1 month Subscription + Lifetime | $69.95 / 1 month Subscription + Lifetime |
| Read full MiniTool Power Data Recovery review | Read full EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard review |
Introduction
If you’re suffering from data loss, data recovery software is the solution. There are a bunch of options out there, but our goal is to seek out the best tools in the business.
Today, we’re comparing 2 old timers: MiniTool Power Data Recovery and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. Both of them have been around for a long time – but one of them is clearly superior.
MiniTool is an established software developer with a suite of tools under their belt, including media editors and converters. MiniTool Power Data Recovery for Windows is a competitively-priced “freemium” data recovery software that has been reviewed by over 2,000 users. But how good is it really? Does the competitive price actually cut a good deal or are you better off investing in a slightly more expensive tool? Read on to find out.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is a very popular data recovery software with coverage on many tech sites, including software reviews and how-to’s. Its modern and user-friendly interface has earned it many fans over the years it’s been online. But is their reputation as good as their marketing? And is the product worth the somewhat expensive price tag? Answers below.
Top Minitool Pros
Top EaseUS Pros
Pricing • Business model
| 1 | Distributed as | Freemium | Freemium |
| 2 | Trial version available | pros | pros |
| 3 | Trial version limitations | Recover up to 1 GB for free | Recover up to 2 GB for free |
| 4 | Number of devices per license |
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| 5 | Starting price | $69.00/ 1 month | $69.95/ 1 month |
| 6 | License model | Subscription + Lifetime | Subscription + Lifetime |
| 7 | No credit card to try | pros | pros |
| 8 | Money back guarantee | pros | pros |
| 9 | See Plans & Pricing | Pricing details | Pricing details |
Both MiniTool Power Data Recovery and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard are “freemium” software that offer a limited preview of their services.
MiniTool offers 1 GB of free data recovery, while EaseUS offers 2 GB (500 MB to start, then up to an additional 1.5 GB for promoting them on social media). Both software offer a similar price for monthly subscriptions at roughly $69, but MiniTool’s perpetual license is much cheaper ($99) than EaseUS’ license ($149.95).
This may already be a deal-maker for users on a budget, but there’s still a lot to consider. If you really want to get your money’s worth, we suggest you keep reading.
Data Recovery Performance
This section provides a bird’s eye view of what users can expect from each software’s recovery capabilities. What formats are supported? Will it work for the device I need to recover? Can it recover original file names and folder structure? Answers below.
Clever In-Depth Scan of File Systems
| 1 | FAT32 partitions | Partial support | Partial support |
| 2 | exFAT partitions | Partial support | Partial support |
| 3 | NTFS partitions | Full support | Full support |
| 4 | EXT4 partitions | Not supported | Not supported |
| 5 | HFS+ partitions | Not supported | Full support |
| 6 | APFS partitions | Not supported | Not supported |
Clever In-Depth Scan is one of many modern data recovery software’s core scan types and it focuses on rebuilding a partition’s root folder structure and retrieving original file names.
Both MiniTool Power Data Recovery and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard are great with NTFS partitions and can restore original folder structure and filenames. Both were also successful at restoring other Windows-based formats, like FAT32 and exFAT, but expect file names missing and data lumped together.
Predictably, neither software succeeded with most non-Windows file systems, and neither supports Windows shadow copies. But this is where the similarities end for the most part.
The Windows version of EaseUS could pull data, root folder structure, and original filenames from our Apple-based HFS+ partition, which was impressive. However, we’re not going to count that as a major point in this Windows-based review.
Quick Scan of File Systems
| 1 | FAT32 partitions | Partial support | Partial support |
| 2 | exFAT partitions | Full support | Partial support |
| 3 | NTFS partitions | Full support | Full support |
| 4 | EXT4 partitions | Not supported | Not supported |
| 5 | HFS+ partitions | Partial support | Not supported |
| 6 | APFS partitions | Not supported | Not supported |
MiniTool Power Data Recovery did a little better during the quick scan test, which attempts to restore as many recently deleted files as it can in a short amount of time (which gives the user the best chance of recovering their data).
MiniTool restored the majority of our files from our exFAT and NTFS partitions, but it struggled a bit with our FAT32 partition. It was even able to pull some data from our HFS+ partition, but since that’s an Apple-based format, we won’t count it here.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard again did great with our NTFS partition, but it recovered less data from our exFAT partition than MiniTool did. EaseUS also struggled with our FAT32 partition, producing mixed results.
Other Scan Types
| 1 | The number of file types supported by signature scan | Some (≈200) | Some (≈200) |
| 2 | BitLocker support | Partial support | Full support |
| 3 | Windows shadow copies scanning | Not supported | Not supported |
| 4 | Scan for lost partitions | Partial support | Not supported |
| 5 | Recovered files' labeling | Not supported | Full support |
| 6 | Partial file recovery | Not supported | Full support |
| 7 | Disk images: scan and recovery | Not supported | Not supported |
Both MiniTool Power Data Recovery and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard offer a tool to scan by file type. Each app recognizes over 200 file signatures, which we’ll take a closer look at in the real-life recovery challenge.
EaseUS is also capable of partial file recovery by format and supports the labeling of recovered files. On the other hand, MiniTool does a reasonable job of scanning for lost partitions – a feature that EaseUS doesn’t currently offer.
EaseUS provides excellent BitLocker support (you just need to know your password), while MiniTool requires the user to manually decrypt their device before it becomes available to scan.
EaseUS wins this round because it offers more features – and the quality of those features outperforms what MiniTool offers.
Real-Life Recovery Challenge
| 1 | Raw photo recovery | 46% | 77% |
| 2 | Video formats recovery | 31% | 62% |
| 3 | Document formats recovery | 59% | 80% |
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard recognizes more formats across the board. It recovered most of our RAW photos, providing excellent support for common camera brands like Kodak, GoPro, Sony, Panasonic, Nikon, and more. It performed similarly with commonly used video formats like MOV and MP4, and less common ones like MXF and WMV.
All Microsoft Office document formats are supported as well, but EaseUS had trouble with OpenOffice and other non-MS formats.
In comparison, MiniTool Power Data Recovery produced average to below-average results in every category. It missed more than half of the RAW photo formats we tested and it didn’t support any of the file types EaseUS failed to recognize.
Unfortunately, MiniTool did even worse in the video formats recovery test struggling with even well-used formats like MOV. On the bright side, MiniTool provided great support for 360 (GoPro), AVI, MP4, and even WMV formats.
MiniTool did a little bit better when we tried restoring document files, producing decent results with Microsoft Office files, and even recognized more Non-MS Office types than EaseUS did.
However, this will only be a deal maker for a very specific set of users. For the average user, EaseUS will simply give you better chances to restore your files.
Feature Comparison
In this section, we dig into the meat of each software. Through our own testing criteria, we challenge their real life recovery ability, usability, and value for money.
Below are the most important differences between MiniTool Power Data Recovery and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. By the end of this section, we’ll have a clear winner.
Karma
74% | 84% | ||
| 1 | Update frequency | base-warn | base-warn |
| 2 | Updated recently | base-pros | base-pros |
| 3 | Changelog available | base-pros | base-pros |
| 4 | Latest Windows release supported | base-pros | base-pros |
| 5 | Genuine or clone? | base-pros | base-pros |
| 6 | Brand name popularity | base-cons | base-warn |
| 7 | Online market share | base-cons | base-warn |
| 8 | Maturity | base-pros | base-pros |
| 9 | Extensive knowledge base | base-pros | base-pros |
| 10 | Helpdesk support | base-pros | base-pros |
| 11 | Live chat | base-pros | base-pros |
| 12 | Phone support | base-pros | base-pros |
Usability
56% | 76% | ||
| 1 | Modern user-friendly interface | base-cons | base-pros |
| 2 | Dark mode | base-cons | base-cons |
| 3 | Easy-to-locate features | base-pros | base-pros |
| 4 | Automatic implementation of multiple appropriate scanning methods without user interaction | base-pros | base-pros |
| 5 | Auto-resuming scans of failing drives | base-cons | base-warn |
| 6 | Auto-resuming backups of failing drives | base-cons | base-cons |
| 7 | Convenient source selection on start | base-warn | base-pros |
| 8 | Convenient file-by-file preview of recoverable items | base-warn | base-pros |
| 9 | Convenient thumbnail preview of recoverable items | base-warn | base-pros |
| 10 | Mount recoverable items as disk | base-cons | base-cons |
| 11 | Built-in updater | base-cons | base-pros |
| 12 | Multiple view modes in scan results | base-warn | base-warn |
| 13 | Hex view for recoverable items | base-cons | base-cons |
| 14 | Filter recoverable items by type | base-pros | base-pros |
| 15 | Search recoverable items by file names | base-pros | base-pros |
| 16 | Sort results | base-pros | base-pros |
| 17 | Multilingual UI | base-pros | base-pros |
| 18 | Simple deployment | base-pros | base-pros |
When it comes to usability, MiniTool Power Data Recovery starts to lag behind. While its interface is reasonably user-friendly, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard provides a more polished user experience.
Things like source selection and file-by-file preview are easier and work out of the box, whereas MiniTool requires you to download its preview function. EaseUS’ graphical user interface is also a lot easier on the eyes than MiniTool is.
After the scanning phase though, it’s easy to search, filter, and sort found files using either software. The one feature would want to find in the future is the ability to auto-resume scans and backups.
Device support
65% | 71% | ||
| 1 | Internal and external HDD | base-pros | base-pros |
| 2 | Internal and external SSD | base-pros | base-pros |
| 3 | USB thumb drives / Classic iPods (non-iOS) / FireWire devices | base-pros | base-pros |
| 4 | Memory cards | base-pros | base-pros |
| 5 | iOS devices | base-cons | base-cons |
| 6 | Android devices | base-cons | base-cons |
| 7 | Recovery from RAID arrays | base-pros | base-warn |
| 8 | Unmountable partitions | base-pros | base-pros |
| 9 | NAS (Network-attached storage) RAID devices | base-cons | base-warn |
| 10 | Remote SSH (secure shell protocol) Linux based devices recovery | base-cons | base-warn |
In terms of device support, both MiniTool Power Data Recovery and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard successfully restored data from hard drives, solid-state drives, and other flash media like USB thumb drives and SD cards. Neither software worked with mobile devices, but both developers offer standalone data recovery tools for iOS and Android – so, no surprises there.
For unmountable partitions, both apps also work. However, we were pleasantly surprised to find that MiniTool provided great support for RAID drives, outperforming EaseUS.
Other notable recovery features
24% | 32% | ||
| 1 | Overall non-intrusive read-only algorithms | base-cons | base-cons |
| 2 | Network recovery | base-cons | base-warn |
| 3 | Effectively filters out corrupted scan results | base-cons | base-cons |
| 4 | Byte-to-byte device backups | base-cons | base-cons |
| 5 | Bootable recovery drive creation | base-pros | base-pros |
| 6 | Convenient scan session management | base-warn | base-warn |
| 7 | Bad sector management | base-cons | base-cons |
| 8 | Recovery chance prediction | base-cons | base-cons |
| 9 | RAID reconstructor | base-cons | base-cons |
| 10 | Disk vitals monitoring and tracking during scan | base-cons | base-warn |
| 11 | Data protection | base-cons | base-cons |
| 12 | Links to in-lab recovery service for physically damaged devices | base-cons | base-cons |
| 13 | Scan speed | base-warn | base-warn |
| 14 | Scan free space only | base-cons | base-pros |
| 15 | Start file recovery without interrupting the scan | base-pros | base-pros |
| 16 | Preview recoverable items without interrupting the scan | base-pros | base-pros |
| 17 | Forensic features | base-cons | base-cons |
MiniTool Power Data Recovery and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard offer a few notable recovery features. The most important feature (which both apps offer) is the ability to create a bootable drive. This gives users with non-booting drives a chance to recover their data. Both software tools also allow users to preview and restore found files without interrupting an ongoing scan.
That’s pretty much it. We wish at least one of these apps would offer a byte-to-byte backup feature, which many other data recovery software tools provide for free.
Extras
7% | 7% | ||
| 1 | Disk space mapping | base-cons | base-cons |
| 2 | Disk clean up | base-cons | base-cons |
| 3 | Corrupted video repair tool | base-warn | base-warn |
| 4 | Corrupted photo repair tool | base-cons | base-cons |
| 5 | S.M.A.R.T. | base-cons | base-cons |
| 6 | Duplicate finder | base-cons | base-cons |
| 7 | Built-in disk space secure eraser | base-cons | base-cons |
| 8 | Disk cloning | base-cons | base-cons |
| 9 | Disk surface test | base-cons | base-cons |
| 10 | Secure data shredding | base-cons | base-cons |
Unfortunately, neither MiniTool Power Data Recovery nor EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard offers any extras, which could have bagged either of them some additional points.
MiniTool and EaseUS do offer a corrupted video repair tool, but they are entirely different software and unrelated to the data recovery apps.
Wrapping Up
While it’s a fact that MiniTool Power Data Recovery is more competitively priced than EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, that’s not enough to tip the scales in its favor. EaseUS provides a more polished product that supports more formats, offers a better user experience, and provides critical features that make the recovery process much easier. By comparison, MiniTool feels a little incomplete. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard wins.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard earns its reputation as an easy-to-use yet powerful data recovery software.
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Alejandro is a veteran writer with a rich background in technology. He worked part-time in his uncle’s repair and recovery shop as a young boy, and now uses his experience and writing skills to produce content for multiple tech websites – specifically on the topic of data recovery. As an author for Pandora Recovery, he is constantly testing and experimenting with new tools and technology to help his readers find the best software for their needs.
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Yevgeniy Tolkunov is Hardware Engineer at ACE Data Recovery. Yevgeniy has a Master's Degree in Physics, Information Technology; 15+ years of experience.