Is it safe to run on the drive I need to recover?
Yes. The source is opened read-only, so RecoverYantra can never change or worsen it. Recovered data is always written to a separate destination you pick. The safest move after data loss is to stop using the drive and image it first, and the tool guides you through exactly that.
Do you upload my data anywhere?
No. The tool runs entirely on your machine and does not need the internet at all. A key is signed offline for one machine's code, so it works on an air-gapped bench. Outbound public-internet connections are blocked by default at the socket layer. Your data stays with you.
How is a licence counted?
By the drive, not by the file. A use is one source, a drive or an image. The first time files are saved from that source, one use is spent; the same source is free afterwards, however many files or sessions. RecoverYantra Imager is the one exception: it needs no licence key at all, ever, for checking, imaging, browsing, saving files or ingesting a dump.
Do I have to recover the whole drive?
No. The file system index is read in seconds and shown as a tree with deleted entries and their chances marked. Tick a file, a folder or a volume and only that is read and written, in its own folders with its own dates. The full scan of every byte stays one click away for what the index no longer knows.
Can you break ransomware encryption?
No, and we say so. Modern ransomware with strong encryption and a key only the attacker holds cannot be broken by anyone. What the product does is often larger than people expect: it finds shadow copies and backups, recovers the originals many strains forget to erase, salvages readable text from partly encrypted documents, and identifies strains with known weaknesses or leaked keys.
What about physically damaged drives?
We have our own lab. A failing but readable drive is imaged carefully and recovered from the image. Mechanical damage (clicking heads, seized spindle) goes to the clean room. We tell you which situation you are in rather than risk making it worse.
Does it handle SSDs and TRIM?
Yes, with the limit stated. On many SSDs, TRIM permanently clears deleted data soon after deletion, so nothing can bring it back. The tool detects this and tells you, instead of running a scan that was never going to find anything.
Can it open a locked phone?
It runs every public acquisition method in-house: checkm8 on A5 to A11 iPhones, Qualcomm EDL with a loader, MediaTek BootROM, rooted ADB, and the backup routes. A modern device with no public vector, such as an A12 or later iPhone before first unlock, is not opened by any public method; the product names the method that would reach it and what it needs, and never pretends otherwise.
Windows, Linux, clicks or command line?
Windows 10 and 11 with a graphical application and a command line; the command line also runs on Linux. The same engine sits under both.
