Somewhat new so many specialists aren't strongly opinionated about it yet RAW recovery is sometimes the only option, but it should be a last resort due to its significant drawbacks. File System metadata like name and location will be lost, so you'll have hundreds of thousands of files up into the millions to sift through in most cases. This is the worst kind of recovery - it is only capable of recovering non-fragmented files and will recover 10+ false positives for each actual file. It's not exactly good at un-deleting either, but it's free. Despite their claims that it can recover data in the case of damaged file system or formatting, it is terrible at that. Recuva - Un-delete tool, for un-deleting files removed from the operating system's delete function. Everything it can do can be done by the free trial of DMDE but a million times better and more user friendly.

Testdisk - partition manipulation tool ONLY. Just okay - a mix of many tools under the hood, which is not really a good thing. The resultant clone will still need recovery software run against it in most cases as logical damage resulting from failure is cloned with the data Tools that assist in data recovery that are not file recovery toolsĭdrescue - cloning tool designed to clone failing drives. Stellar (anything from them except photo repair tool) Ontrack Easyrecovery (re-branded Stellar) Literal scams, misleading about their capabilities, non-insustry-accepted, overall garbage, or a mix:Īdvanced Disk Recovery – Ultimate Softwareĭisk Drill (garbage EXCEPT with damaged Time Machine backups) As for your list, here's a breakdown of it: If you want to skip over all the rest of this, see this. Is there an updated wiki comparision someone has made of which is better? The second tool they list is hot well-advertised garbage, so I'm going to say no, that list is total crap. If the drive is unhealthy in any way shape or form, the drive is still in use, or if TRIM / UNMAP is involved, yes Would it do a lot more damage if you use all the tools, or it doesnt really matter? Which are the better paid data recovery tools for future use when need to recover in future? They're pretty much all not great, but we'll get to that later

Which are the better free data recovery tools? Better to try than nothing.

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