iolo Search and Recover
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Plans and prices
From iolo Search and Recover's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Search and Recover | $35.95, paid once | For use on all your home PCs · Certain features require ongoing updates; one year included |
The facts
Each one read from iolo Search and Recover's own pages, with the date it was checked.
The company
- Company
- iolo develops software for computer repair, optimization, protection, and data recovery and is part of RealDefense LLC.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1998checked 19 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Pasadena, Californiachecked 19 Oct 2026
What it does
- Damaged media
- iolo says the product can recover data from malfunctioning, damaged, formatted, and repartitioned devices.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Drive types
- It lists IDE, SCSI, USB, USB 2.0, and FireWire drives among the supported drive types.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Email recovery
- The product lists Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Netscape Mail, and Eudora as supported email programs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- File preview
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Licensing
- The sales policy says a license must be purchased to use Search and Recover.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Maintenance limit
- Certain features require ongoing iolo updates, with one year included in the initial purchase; continued access to those features requires renewal.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Memory card recovery
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Operating systems
- Windows 11,10,8.1,8,7,Vista,XP SP3checked 19 Sep 2026
- Paid from
- 44.95checked 19 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Search and Recover restores accidentally deleted documents, music, photos, email, videos, system files, and folders from PCs and digital devices.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Recovery sources
- hard drives,CDs/DVDs,cameras,MP3 players,flash drives,memory cards,music players,digital mediachecked 19 Sep 2026
- Refund guarantee
- The product page advertises a 30-day money-back guarantee.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Scanning
- SmartScan filters out irrelevant junk files, while StrongScan performs a sector-level search for deleted data.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Search controls
- Users can search a specific location or the whole system, and choose folders, hard drives, and removable media to search.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The product page advertises free product support.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported media
- It recovers data from hard drives, CDs, DVDs, cameras, MP3 players, flash drives, memory cards, and other digital media.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 19 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Supported Windows versions
- The product page lists Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, and XP (SP3).checked 11 Oct 2026
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