Handy Recovery Alternatives

Recuva

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore 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. It will even bring back files that have been deleted from your iPod, or by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Features:

• File Recovery
• Portable

Glary Utilities

Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. It provides in 23 languages registry and disk cleaning, startup delay, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools. It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain maximum performance. It is designed for both novice and professionals.

Features:

• System Cleanup
• Registry repairing
• Software Uninstallers
• Duplicate File Finder
• Utilities that Delete Files
• File Splitting
• Multiple languages
• Portable
• Real-time Junk Monitoring
• File Recovery
• Software Uninstallers

TestDisk

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

Features:

• Recover deleted files
• Support for FTP
• File Recovery
• Recover disk partitions
• Repair Partitions
• Simple set up

Disk Drill

Disk Drill is a data recovery software that easily protects your files from accidental deletion with Recovery Vault and recovers lost data from disks. Disk Drill supports most of storage drives, file types and file systems. Disk Drill recovers deleted files from iPhone and Android devices! This data recovery software can also find duplicate files, clean your disk and visualize disk space usage; offers bootable data recovery drive, byte-to-byte backups, disk health monitoring, and more.

Features:

• Recover deleted files
• Recover photos
• File Recovery
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. data

PhotoRec

PhotoRec, companion program to TestDisk , is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your medias filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

Features:

• Disk drive recovery
• Recover deleted files
• Finds deleted files
• Intelligent recovery
• Recover photos
• File Recovery

R-Studio

R-Studio is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software. Empowered by the new unique data recovery technologies, it is the most comprehensive data recovery solution for recovery files from FAT12/16/32/exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 (created or updated by Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Win7), HFS/HFS+ (Macintosh), Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS (Linux) partitions.

Features:

• Recover deleted files
• RAID recovery
• File Recovery

GetDataBack

GetDataBack, for FAT or NTFS drive and partitions, will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a system crash, files were lost due to a software failure, files were accidentally deleted. GetDataBack can even recover your data when the drive is no longer recognized by Windows.

Features:

• Recover deleted files
• File Recovery

DiskGenius

DiskGenius, previously PartitionGuru, is full-featured partition manager, which is designed to optimize disk usage for Windows users. Feature: #- Data and Partitions Recovery. #- Manage Hard Drive: * Resize / Split Partition. * One-click partition a hard drive. * Complete Wipe Partition. * Create / Format Partition (It supports NTFS, exFAT, FAT32, FAT16, FAT12, EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4 file systems.) * Create WinPE Bootable Disk.

Features:

• Recover deleted files
• File Recovery
• Recover lost data

MiniTool Power Data Recovery

MiniTool Power Data Recovery is all in one data recovery software for both home and business users. It can easily restore lost or mistakenly deleted files from computer hard drive, external hard drive, SSD, USB, SD card, and more. Free edition for Windows allows you to recover up to 1GB data for free, while personal deluxe edition offers a lifetime license with free upgrade service.

Lazesoft Recovery Suite

Lazesoft Recovery Suite is a very easy to use ALL-IN-ONE boot disk that repair your crashed Windows, recover data from deleted, formatted, damaged partition, clone or backup disk, reset your forgotten Windows password. Recover your data or repair your system when Windows can't start normally. Create bootable rescue CD or USB disk Boot up any computer Recover data and passwords Repair Windows system Clone or Restore the hard drive Home Edition is free for home user.

Features:

• Windows password recovery
• Disk Cloning
• Disk Imaging
• Rescue cd
• Windows repair