Restore lost or accidentally deleted documents, photos, audio and video files. Recover various types of data from your hard drive, smartphone, tablet, USB drive, memory cards, and other storage devices. Choose to retrieve an entire drive or only selected files.
Special features
Preview files
Supports data storage devices
Recovers various types of files
Supported OS
UndeleteMyFiles
UndeleteMyFiles scans your entire hard drive in search for deleted files and displays a list of data with names, formats, sizes, dates of modification for each of files. Choose the items you want to extract, browse files using the tree view mode and preview them. Recover your media files as well as emails, erase sensitive data without any chance of recovery, and create a backup image of your whole drive before retrieving particular files to make sure new data won't replace any important deleted files. Download this tool for free to use it on your Windows PC.
Main window
Features
- Two-step multimedia files restoration.
- Comes with a short wizard to recover files.
- Permanently deletes files.
- Creates an images of a system disc.
- Retrieves emails.
- Tree and Detailed view modes.
Advantages
- Recovers directory structures.
- Creates a system backup for file restoration.
- Two view modes to navigate deleted items.
- Multiple filters to search for deleted files.
- File shredder option.
Disadvantages
- Doesn't show the recoverability state of the files.
- No portable version.
Recuva Data Recovery
Recuva restores data from hard drives, DVD, CD, and Blu-ray discs, memory cards, internal and external drives. The tool searches for unreferenced data, and recovers images, music, movies, documents, emails, and even lost or deleted directory structures. Get back your data from damaged or newly formatted drives, shred sensitive files to erase beyond recovery, and perform a deep scan to find the traces of hard-to-extract data. The tool is available for Windows PC, it's free of charge but you can buy the Pro version with the extended functionality for $12.50.
Main window
Features
- Deep scan mode.
- File shredder.
- Preview option.
- Works with damaged and formatted data.
- Supports FAT and NTFS systems.
- Indicates the level of difficulty in recovering data with various colors.
Advantages
- Portable option.
- Restores from multiple file storage disks.
- Recovers difficult-to-restore files from your system.
- Extracts files from formatted hard disks.
- Deletes files beyond recovery.
Disadvantages
- Deep scanning takes quite some time.
- No help files.
- Occasionally misnames files.
Disk Drill
Scan the hard drive of your PC as well as external drives, USB devices, memory cards, and other storage solutions. View a list of recoverable files, organized by type, and preview photos before starting a recovery. Choose from quick or full scan options, pause and resume the scanning process, recover lost or deleted partitions, and create backups of entire drives. It's free to use and is available for Windows and Mac.
Main Window
Features
- Works with NTFS, FAT32, EXT, HFS+ and other file systems.
- Recovers data from system disks and external devices.
- Allows you to pause, stop, or resume the scanning process.
- Supports recovery of lost and damaged partitions.
- Creates backups as mountable ISO, IMG or DMG image files.
- Offers quick scan and deep scan options.
Advantages
- Sorts the files to recover by category for easier viewing.
- Filters the results by size or date.
- Preview option.
- Recovers data from various file systems.
- Offers several scanning modes.
- Pauses and resumes the scanning process.
Disadvantages
- Doesn't scan a particular folder or file type.
- Lacks the thumbnail preview option.
- The free version offers only 500MB of data recovery.
- Doesn't show how recoverable a file is.
- No portable option.
Wise Data Recovery
This tool scans your PC, USB drives, memory cards, digital cameras, mobile phones, MP3 players, and other removable devices and shows a list of recoverable files with Good, Poor, Very Poor, or Lost marks. Undelete files that you lost due to a system crash, accidental deletion, or from a formatted drive. Apply various filters to search for particular types of files. It's free and works on Windows PC.
Main Window
Features
- Portable option.
- Multiple search filters.
- Supports FAT, exFAT, and NTFS disks.
- Works with local drives, USB drives, cameras, memory cards, and other removable media devices.
- Shows whether a file has a good or poor chance to be recovered.
Advantages
- Recovers several files at ones.
- Shows the recoverability level of data.
- Advanced search tool.
- Comes with a portable version.
Disadvantages
- No deep scan option.
- Doesn't preserve the original folder structure when recovering files.
- Lacks the preview option.
EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition
It comes with the Quick scan mode to receive fast results and the Deep scan mode to get back as much data as possible. Recover audio and video files, photos, emails, document, archives, and other file types in multiple formats and preview them. Restore data from unrecognized partitions or lost due to hard drive corruption or a virus attack. It's free of charge and is available for Mac and Windows.
Main window
Features
- Two scan modes.
- Works with FAT, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5, ext2/ext3, HFS+, ReFS systems.
- Supports the recovery of media files, documents, emails, archives.
- Exports and imports scanning results.
- Choose files to recover.
- Browse the folders just like in Explorer.
Advantages
- Supports a wide range of file formats.
- Works with multiple storage devices.
- Preview option.
- Recovers files from lost partitions.
Disadvantages
- The free version recovers only 500MB data or 2GB if your share the program on social platforms.
- No option to scan individual folders.
- Allows you to preview only 100 MB file size.
- No preview for video and audio files.
Conclusion
Disk Drill gets the highest score among all the reviewed data restoration solutions. The program offers several scanning modes, recovers a wide range of multimedia file types from multiple file systems, and allows you to pause and resume the scanning process. We recommend using this tool when you require to recover your important data. What recovery programs are your favorite and why? Tell us and we'll add them to our comparison list.
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