Beware of fake data recovery reviews. All across the Internet you will find reviews for every imaginable product or service. Some of these reviews such as those offered on large scale to sales websites like Amazon are legitimate. Indeed they usually reflect the viewpoint of someone who has purchased that product and has something to say about it. Genuine and honest reviews of products on legitimate web sites have nothing to do with the majority of data recovery reviews. Fully 99% of these web sites are fraudulent and have been created specifically to direct potential customers to more expensive less effective products. For example if you should see a file recovery review for Stellar Info’s Windows file recovery program mixed in among half a dozen other file recovery company products you will no doubt see the Stellar software being promoted as absolutely superior in all aspects to any other. But how can this be, when the Stellar software costs 50% more than the other programs and in reality scans for files at a much slower speed. The answer is very simple, Stellar Info owns that review website along with 100 others all designed to lead you in the wrong direction. Before you buy any data recovery product, make sure it specifically will rescue the type of files you have lost and has instructions that will carry you through the process of crashed hard drive recovery.