<h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What is included in Wondershare Recoverit Premium?</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>Crashed PC Rescue</strong> – Bootable WinPE USB reaches unbootable Windows systems.<br /> <strong>NAS and RAID</strong> – Remote recovery from Synology, QNAP, RAID arrays.<br /> <strong>Linux Volumes</strong> – Scans EXT4, BTRFS, XFS and BFS file systems.<br /> <strong>Photo Video Repair</strong> – Merges fragments, repairs corrupted 4K and 8K footage.<br /> <strong>Core Capacity</strong> – Restores 1000+ file formats across 2000+ storage devices.<br /> <strong>Important</strong> – Commercial and organisation-wide licensing requires the separate Team &amp; Business plan.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What are the main benefits of Wondershare Recoverit Premium?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Recoverit Premium is the top individual tier of Wondershare's data recovery software for Windows, covering deleted, formatted and lost files on internal drives, external media, NAS servers and Linux volumes. It is the only Recoverit tier that also repairs corrupted photos and videos instead of only retrieving them.<br /> <br /> <strong>One Toolkit</strong> – Handles deletion, formatting, crash and corruption cases.<br /> <strong>Preview First</strong> – Check file previews before running a full recovery.<br /> <strong>Server Reach</strong> – Pulls NAS data without dismantling the enclosure.<br /> <strong>Media Rescue</strong> – Rebuilds fragmented 4K and 8K camera footage.<br /> <strong>Fewer Tools</strong> – Avoids buying a separate video repair application.<br /> <strong>Offline Rescue</strong> – Bootable media works when Windows will not start.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What does Wondershare Recoverit Premium do?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Recoverit Premium scans storage media for files that were deleted, formatted away or lost to a corrupted partition, and writes the recoverable ones back to a location you choose. It supports more than 1000 file formats and over 2000 storage devices, including HDDs, SSDs, SD cards, USB sticks, camera media and disk images. The scan runs in two passes: a quick pass for recently deleted items with intact file names, then a deep signature-based pass for formatted or damaged volumes where the file table is gone. Because you can preview a file before recovering it, you can confirm a specific Excel sheet or MP4 is actually intact rather than recovering 200 GB and hoping.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What is the difference between Recoverit Essential, Standard and Premium?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">All three tiers share the same core scan engine, the same 1000+ file formats and the same disk image support; the difference is which recovery scenarios are unlocked. Essential covers drives, folders and SD or USB media only. Standard adds the bootable WinPE disk that lets you pull data off a PC that no longer boots. Premium is the only tier that reaches NAS servers, RAID arrays and Linux volumes, and the only one that repairs corrupted photos and videos and reassembles fragmented video.</p>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle;">Drive and folder recovery</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle;">Bootable USB for crashed PC</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Separate plan</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Separate plan</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Separate plan</td>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Can Recoverit Premium recover data from a NAS or a Linux machine?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Yes, and this is the main reason to choose Premium over Standard. Recoverit Premium connects to a NAS remotely over the network, so a Synology or QNAP box can be scanned without pulling the disks out of the enclosure and attaching them to a Windows PC. RAID configurations including RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10 are covered, which matters when a rebuild fails and the array drops to an inaccessible state. Linux recovery reads EXT4, BTRFS, XFS and BFS volumes, so a small office file server or a dead Ubuntu workstation disk can be scanned from the Windows machine you already have.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Does Recoverit Premium repair corrupted videos, or only recover them?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Premium does both, and it is the only individual tier that includes the repair engine. Recovered footage from an SD card is often returned in fragments that no player will open; Premium scans for those fragments and merges them back into a playable file, including Ultra HD, 4K and 8K material from cameras, drones and action cams. It also repairs corrupted photos. Results are strongest with mainstream containers such as MP4, MOV and AVI, so if your workflow depends on unusual or proprietary camera formats, run the free scan and preview first before assuming a rescue will work.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What technical limitations should users know before buying?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Recoverit Premium is a recovery tool, not a backup tool: it has no scheduled backup, imaging schedule or bare-metal restore, and Wondershare sells backup separately as UBackit. Data is only recoverable while the original sectors have not been overwritten, which is why continuing to work on the affected drive after a deletion is the single biggest cause of failed recoveries. Recovered files must be written to a different drive than the one being scanned, so keep a spare external disk on hand before starting. Windows and Mac are licensed as separate products, and commercial or organisation-wide use is handled by the separate Team &amp; Business plan rather than the individual Premium licence.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><a href="https://keys.express/EN/blog/post/data-loss-is-costly-how-backups-help-you-avoid-downtime" target="_blank"><strong>Data loss is expensive: How backups help you avoid outages</strong><br />For more background on backup planning, read our guide</a></p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Who is Recoverit Premium best suited for?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Premium fits people whose lost data sits outside a single Windows drive: photographers and videographers with fragmented card footage, and small-office users with a NAS, RAID array or Linux volume. A photographer who formats a card mid-shoot needs both recovery and repair, and Premium is the only tier that performs the second step. An IT generalist supporting a handful of machines gets the bootable WinPE disk for dead PCs plus remote NAS access in one licence, instead of running a recovery tool and a video repair tool side by side. If your recovery needs never leave a normal internal or external disk, Essential or Standard already cover that and Premium adds nothing you would use.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What should users check before choosing Recoverit Premium?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Run the free version first and preview the files you actually care about. The free build shares the Essential feature set and caps total recovery at 100 MB on Windows, but the scan and preview stages are not limited, so you can see whether a specific file is intact before paying. Check whether your loss scenario needs a bootable disk, NAS access or video repair, because those three capabilities are exactly what separates the tiers. Also confirm the platform: the Windows and Mac editions are bought as separate products, not one cross-platform licence.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Frequently asked questions about Wondershare Recoverit Premium</h3>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Can Recoverit recover files that were deleted a long time ago?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Yes. Age is not the limiting factor; overwriting is. Files deleted months ago remain recoverable as long as new data has not been written over the original sectors, which is why an unused backup drive often yields better results than a busy system disk.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Which document and email formats does Recoverit recover?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Recoverit covers over 1000 formats, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and ZIP archives. Email recovery includes MSG, PST, OST, EML, EMLX and MBOX files, which is the practical route back to an Outlook mailbox that was deleted along with its data file.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Can Recoverit Premium recover data from a disk image?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Yes. Recoverit scans previously created disk images as a recovery source. On a failing drive this is the safer approach: image the disk once, then run repeated scans against the image instead of stressing the original hardware further.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Does Recoverit Premium work on a PC that will not start?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Yes. Premium includes the bootable toolkit: you create a WinPE USB or CD/DVD on a working PC, boot the dead machine from it, and either recover selected files or copy the whole hard disk. This is the path for blue screen, black screen and boot-loop failures where the drive itself is still readable.</p>