2. What is Data Recovery?
Data recovery is a process of salvaging (retrieving) inaccessible,
lost, corrupted, damaged or formatted data from secondary
storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them
cannot be accessed in a normal way. The data is most often
salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard
disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), USB flash
drives, magnetic tapes, CDs, DVDs, RAID subsystems, and
other electronic devices.
4. Recuva:
Recuva provides a number of tools and features that makes
recovering your data easier. The app will deep scan your drives
and with it, you can recover deleted data on your drive or from
drives that are damaged or formatted. It has the ability to recover
data that was accidently deleted from certain apps such as your
email program or the temp folder of Microsoft Word, useful when
the power cuts off and you haven’t saved your progress.
5. WinHex
A multitasker that includes a disk editor, imaging software,
encryption and check summing, format converter, and more.
It is more targeted towards investigation and forensics than
simple data recover, and has several different levels of
licensing, depending upon required features. It has an
evaluation version that is free to try for as long as you need.
6. EaseUS:
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is designed as a one-stop
data recovery solution. It will recover files that have been
deleted by accident, recover lost files after its partition
has been formatted and recover files after the attack of a
virus or a computer crash. It can recover most any type of
a file, including Word documents, Outlook messages,
Excel spreadsheets, video, audio files, etc.
7. Disk Drill:
Disk Drill is a powerful tool that can scan, recover and protect
data on virtually any storage device, such as internal and
external hard drives, cameras, iPods, USB flash drives, Kindles,
and memory cards.
Disk Drill can recover all file systems (HFS and HFS+,
FAT/FAT32/exFAT, NTFS, EXT3/EXT4), including volumes
with missing or corrupted file system, and lots of file types.
8. Data Recovery Wizard:
This tool can recover data that has been deleted,
formatted, or from drives that have been corrupted.
The free version has a 2GB cap, but often the data you
are trying to save is much smaller than that, so most
users can do a lot with a 2GB trial. It has both
Windows and Mac versions.