SoftPerfect File Recovery helps you recover accidentally deleted files from floppy disks, hard drives, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch file_recovery.exe. |
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Andy
on 2007-04-06 23:41
Hi guys. I am a developer of this free tool. Let me clarify the 'hard drive' recovery. The software is able to restore accidentally deleted files from built-in hard disk drives as long as two the following conditions are met:
hudson
on 2009-08-22 01:20
Excellent product. Recovered two files from flash memory. Simple and efficient, and no installation
Rolf
on 2011-02-05 19:04
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Odd The download says it is Version V1.2.0.0 |
Recuva helps recover files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players.
The program has a friendly "wizard"-style set up for finding documents by type (pictures, documents etc.) or an advanced mode to search manually through all deleted files.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Don't forget to disable usage data sharing in 'Options' - 'Privacy'. |
What's new? | See: https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva/version-history |
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Ennovy
on 2022-03-28 16:01
"This change introduces an additional control for basic product usage data reporting. This can be found in Recuva’s ‘Privacy’ tab.
Ennovy
on 2022-03-28 16:07
On privacy tab disable the option "Help improve this app and our other products by sharing app-usage data with us.
juverax
on 2022-06-20 09:03
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Is "Recuva v.1.53.2078" an online installer? |
Restoration helps undelete files that were deleted accidentally. You can scan for all files that could be recovered, or filter the results by entering a search term or extension. By contrast, if the recoverable files need to stay deleted, the program can perform a secure wipe function to fully delete recoverable files.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Restoration.exe. |
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dmg
on 2010-11-05 23:19
@Oliver
spicydog
on 2011-02-05 11:01
Restoration 3.2.13 is simply a great program!!! HUGE thanks (Domo Arigato Gozaimasu) to Brian Kato for having developed it and for the portablefreeware friends who suggested it.
spicydog
on 2011-02-06 14:43
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With Restoration v3.2.13 I have noticed the following: |
PhotoRec is designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CDROMs and removable storage. It recognizes the header formats of supported file types, so it will work even if the filesystem is severely damaged or formatted.
Download includes the also-portable TestDisk.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | No |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: |
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What's new? |
See: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_7.1_Release |
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Bill G
on 2008-10-22 15:02
This is by FAR the ABSOLUTE BEST recovery software I've ever used. I do wish that it had a window interface... but it just recovered files that would've taken me 2 hours to recreate. Fantastic. (By the way... I tried 3 other favorites including RECUVA before using this. None of them worked. This did. I think RECUVA probably would've worked with a deep scan, but I don't have the 2 hours to sit and wait for that hope!)
Doc
on 2010-07-01 17:13
Need administrator rights.
Mick G
on 2010-07-02 10:53
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The functionality of this Photorec *free* program is great. The fact that it is free is even better. I've tried it, I like it, i will use it again and I WILL DONATE (honest guv). Fair is fair. Good Karma. |
Encopy rescues data from damaged media when standard system copy fails, freezes and or rejects the media. In cases where it is not possible to perform a full recovery, Encopy will try to copy as much data as possible from the damaged files.
Great for use in getting whatever data off a scratched CD or DVD whose copy would otherwise give up on a read error.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Personal use only |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch encopy5.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier |
What's new? |
v5.26, released 14th June 2012
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EndlessHorizons
on 2009-11-25 22:14
This tool can be downloaded from here: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Encopy-Download-21693.html
disapointed
on 2010-01-10 17:16
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Absolute useless software. |
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier allows you to copy files from disks and CDs with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put them back together. Using this method, most types of files can be made usable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.
See the website for earlier versions that support Win9x through NT.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Windows registry |
Stealth: ? | No. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Roadkil |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download UnstopCpy_XXX_Win2K_UP.exe (where XXX is the version number) to a folder of your choice and launch. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Encopy |
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Fidvo
on 2010-10-21 15:25
I just discovered that despite what I said earlier, you can copy a single file. This is a must-have utility for rescuing DVD's with CRC errors, among other things.
jacko
on 2010-11-23 20:44
Way more informative than the standard copy. For a 20 GB file copied over a slow USB 1.0 - 12 mbps connection, a simple progress bar won't do. Microslop should take note.
jack
on 2010-11-23 20:58
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^ My external hd is 3 years old, dunno why WD would use USB 1.0/1.1 instead of 2.0 !! |
DiskDigger recovers files from any type of media that your computer can read. such as USB flash drives, memory cards and hard disk drives. The types of files supported include BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, DOC, PDF, MP3, AVI, WMV, OGG etc. DiskDigger is not a generic undelete utility. It works by scanning through each sector of the media and looking for "signatures" of the various file types. As such, it may be able to recover certain files that other generic undelete utilities are unable to.
Note: the current version is a nagware (unlimited though), but the originally completely freeware version wasn't updated since 2012 (v0.8.3) - if needed, it can be downloaded from the original website
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | .NET, Administrator rights |
Stealth: ? | No. Writes to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Defiant Technologies |
License: | Free (nagware) for personal use |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DiskDigger.exe. |
What's new? | https://diskdigger.org |
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Alex Woodby
on 2010-06-08 16:29
NO longer freeware, but shareware.
Andrew Lee
on 2010-06-18 23:55
These additional download links are contributed by donald:
webfork
on 2010-08-12 21:18
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This software is rated highly by NoNags editorial staff. Given the number of data recovery apps here on the site, its nice to have a recommendation. http://www.nonags.com/freeware-diskdigger_3697.html |
NTFSWalker is a simple, straightforward utility for analyzing NTFS partitions on any media readable by your computer, showing deleted files, regular files, as well as file preview and detailed attributes for each file.
A program by the same developer is available for FAT partitions.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NTFSWalker.exe. |
Roadkil's Undelete lets you undelete files that you have accidentally deleted from your drives. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS filesystems.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Undelete.exe. |
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DG
on 2010-01-15 20:58
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Bad Link, I get: |
ADRC Data Recovery Tools contains a collection of data recovery tools that supports a wide variety drives and file systems. It enables you to undelete files, create a disk image for backup, restore a backup image, copy files from hard disk with bad sectors, clone a disk, backup/edit/restore your boot parameters etc. As with most tools of this nature, administrator privileges are required to use the tools.
Note: ADRC Data Recovery Tools has the annoying habit of opening its user guide on the web in the web browser on startup. This behaviour cannot be disabled. It is not as stealthy as phoning home without your knowledge, but can be irritating.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ADRC_Data_Recovery_Tools_v1.0.exe. |
Latest comments |
Gnart
on 2009-10-11 03:52
It doesn't produce a bit-stream copy (forensic safe). I restored a forensic safe image of a drive and then create an image with this software. I computed the hash values for the images, they don't match. I am albeit leary of this.
clement
on 2010-07-25 10:07
I think to produce a forensic copy, you will need to connect the drive to a write block device. You can not use software this way to produce a forensic image.
dany
on 2011-11-30 22:43
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Note 2: apart from being irritating, it kinda defies the whole purpose of data recovery... |