What are some free data recovery software options?
What are some free data recovery software options?
There are several free data recovery software options available. Here are 10 of the best ones:
- Recuva (Windows only): A 100% free data recovery software for Windows PC. You can use Recuva to undelete files from hard drive, recycle bin, digital camera card, and USB flash drive.
- Recoverit Data Recovery Free (Windows, Mac): A popular data recovery software that can recover deleted or lost files from various devices.
- Puran File Recovery (Windows): A free file recovery software that can recover deleted files from hard drives, USB drives, and other storage devices.
- Stellar Data Recovery (Windows, Mac): A free data recovery software that can recover deleted or lost files from hard drives, SSDs, and other storage devices.
- Disk Drill (Windows, Mac): A free data recovery software that can recover deleted or lost files from hard drives, SSDs, and other storage devices.
- TestDisk Data Recovery (Windows, Mac): A free and open-source data recovery software that can recover deleted or lost files from hard drives, SSDs, and other storage devices.
- FreeUndelete (Windows): A free file recovery software that can recover deleted files from hard drives, USB drives, and other storage devices.
- SoftPerfect File Recovery (Windows): A free file recovery software that can recover deleted files from hard drives, USB drives, and other storage devices.
- MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free (Windows): A free data recovery software that can recover deleted or lost files from hard drives, SSDs, and other storage devices.
- Windows File Recovery (Windows): A free data recovery software from Microsoft that can recover deleted or lost files from hard drives, SSDs, and other storage devices.
Here's an example of how to use Windows File Recovery to recover PNG images from the C:
drive's Downloads
folder and copy them to the Images
folder on a drive called E:
:
winfr C: E:\Images /n \Users\jonfi\Downloads\*PNG
Note that this command-line tool requires you to type out the commands, but it's still relatively easy to use. You can check out Microsoft's help page for more examples and information on how to use Windows File Recovery.