Data Recovery for free

You lost that whole memory card of images and videos due to unforeseen accidental actions, or rather you'd reformatted a storage media, only then you realized it's the wrong one being formatted.

No point trying to search recovery software online, because the first 2000 results you get are either shareware or payware. Try searching for opensource alternatives, and I have one pretty nifty, functional and free data recovery software.



Photorec/Testdisk
This one works flawlessly in my case, when I accidentally deleted some files on my phone's MicroSD card. It works on a wide range of file systems such as FAT, NTFS, the linux EXT2/3 and HFS, and recovers over 390 known file formats, and even works on DVD/CD and floppy media! It does it's job, without any quirks, and recovered my files all in one piece. You can even choose the specific type of file to recover, so you wouldn't need to sift through tons of cache or temp files and speed up recovery. The performance was quite reasonable, unlike other recovery software, Photorec/Testdisk recovers as soon as it starts reading the first block of the storage media and dumps all uncorrupted files into a specified folder, or if you prefer you can also choose to force it do a partial recovery on corrupted files. It took about 5 minutes to recover a 2Gbytes memory card. Testdisk, which comes with the package, is designed to recover lost partitions such as the case when you removed additional partitions on a harddrive during OS installation. Photorec/Testdisk does not need installation or any registration, just unzip and run, and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.


FreeUndelete
FreeUndelete from officerecovery is a commercial software that does data recovery. It can recover files from NTFS and FAT file systems, and from HDD and flash media. It does not recover partitions though. It offers basic file recovery and has a easy to use GUI that is just point and recover. On recovery, it needs to scan the whole drive first only then you can choose what you want to recover. I have not tested this software, but I suppose it will work. The personal version is free. You have to run a setup prior to using it. Since it is not OpenSource, don't expect free updates and bug fixes or support.
Posted by David la Vida at 9:31 PM

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