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Any free hard drive recovery tools out there for free?
9 Spice ups
Hiren’s Boot CD has loads depending on the issue.
6 Spice ups
jstear
February 28, 2012, 2:30pm
4
Undelete plus works good for us
mel9484
February 28, 2012, 2:31pm
5
MiniTool Power Data Recovery
DataRescue’s DD
2 Spice ups
gary342
February 28, 2012, 2:36pm
6
Saved my bacon several times.
Do not worry about losing partitions with important data. EaseUS Partition Recovery functions efficiently to recover lost and accidentally deleted volumes. It supports all kinds of partitions including FAT, NTFS, HFS, HFS+, HFSX, Ext2 and Ext3...
3 Spice ups
craignj
February 28, 2012, 2:40pm
7
rme88
February 28, 2012, 2:55pm
8
I use Recuva and Hiren’s depending on what needs to be done. Great tools to have in the arsenal.
I have had really good luck hooking hard drives up to a mac and installing macFuse
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-read-and-write-ntfs-windows-partition-on-mac-os-x.html
i have had disks that just wont be recognized on any widows machine when slaved in my blackX dock. macFuse and my iMac have saved me SO many times
You can also try some of the many forensic tools included in Backtrack 5 R1.
Great tools listed but the first thing we really need to know is what is the issue you are trying to recover from. The issue will help dictate the tools.
4 Spice ups
I agree with Merryworks
Was resizing partitions with Partition Magic (unsure on ver.) and it set a data partition to “Unformatted” after resizing, tried just about every free option available, but they either couldn’t recover from Unformatted (typically they’d say it needed to be formatted to recover lolwut) or the ETA was 29 days+
Long story short Easus Data Recovery Wizard 5.5.1 was the best, cost 70$ but that’s less than the lost productivity time for the user, so don’t forget to weigh price with actual cost
It’s not free, but it’s worked for me when everything else has failed. I use it as my first option now, and it’s never failed me. I’ve recovered data with this that I had been convinced was unrecoverable.
R-Studio
johnwhite
February 28, 2012, 9:57pm
14
Yup, lots!
+1 hiren’s
Still Suggesting;
Power Data recovery
dav-e
February 29, 2012, 10:32am
16
+1 for Recuva. I’ve had it recover the dreaded “clicking drive”.
I am a pretty big fan of GetDataBack . It is nice that you can use it for free to see if it can recover the files / drive, and only pay for it if it can. So not 100% free, but the option is there. I have recovered 3 drives that have died in various laptops at the office that were unreadable / bootable using the OS, yet it saw them and recovered all three.
pbp
February 20, 2013, 4:14pm
19
Piriform’s Recuva is first choice (quick). Hiren’s or GetDataBack (commercial) are second pass choices, as needed. Others as need dictates.