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On the Internet, including on our portal, the topic has been raised more than once
file recovery. In fact, there is a whole class of universal and perfectly working programs, differing from each other only in the class of application - whether you need to restore worn-out ASI correspondence or a hard drive polished with a power cable. In this race, all participants reached the finish line - rest assured, each of these programs will cope with what they are supposed to cope with. I do not provide links and prices, because armed with Google (and I am not promoting Google) you will quickly discover both these very popular programs and medications for them. At the end, I will share with you my subjective impressions and comments for those who, one way or another, want to choose “the very best of the very best.”

Search and Recover

Let's start with the standard list of features inherent in most programs of this class: support for most file systems; search for lost files on any device equipped with a permanent
memory; working on portable media (you can run a program from a CD-DVD and go through the damaged hard drive); recovery of files after emptying the Recycle Bin, from formatted drives, after reinstalling Windows, immediate recovery of messages in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, and QUALCOMM Eudora. Recover contacts, calendars, tasks, etc. in M.S.
Outlook. There is a preview function, with which you can view a worn-out file without restoring it (both in its natural form and, for special aesthetes, in hexadecimal encoding).

Search and Recover allows you to work in two modes: “master” and user. I note that in this context, the “master” is the program settings for “artificial intelligence”, where, in theory, it should do everything for you. In the "master" mode, all the most necessary tools are easily accessible.
The “Custom” mode has a number of differences. You yourself specify the file types and their location, and specify the disk drives.
It is worth noting the usability interface of the program: different files are highlighted in different colors (that is, all text files, for example, you can see by a given color). It is also possible to view all files that are in good, fair or poor condition.

As a bonus, I would like to note the function of completely erasing files (using the method of repeated overwriting) and the high, even very, speed of operation.

EasyRecovery

[All standard features]

Using EasyRecovery Professional, it is possible to recover more than 300 files of various types on disk, including MIDI music files, audio files, movies and much more that a modern user may encounter. Essentially, EasyRecovery consists of a DataRecovery data recovery module, a FileRecovery file recovery module, a disk diagnostic module, and a user trying to figure it all out.

The diagnostic part of the program provides: testing of disks and their partitions; detailed information about disk space usage; information about the positions of disk DIP switches (via the Internet); creating a diagnostic floppy that loads the Caldera version
DR-DOS.

Scanning a disk, especially a large one, unlike the previous participant in our race, requires a lot of time. Not surprisingly, it is possible to stop this process and remember its state in order to resume scanning later. Testing can be of varying depths and take different times, but a short test provides, according to the company itself, a diagnostic reliability of 90%. The program provides for reading parameters (thresholds) corresponding to SMART technology from the disk controller and warning about possible problems with it (only for modern disks).

Data recovery possible at different levels, up to serious damage to the file system. To summarize, we can conclude that a program with such rich functionality can be useful to those users who have severely abused their hard drive (pardon the pun) and were unable to recover lost information using other, faster means.

DiskInternals Uneraser

[All standard features] +
[Recovery of compressed (under NTFS) and encrypted (under NTFS5) files, support for long names, recovery of partitions with subpartitions]

The authors of the program claim that they have a unique technology for recovering deleted FAT32 partitions in Windows 2000/XP along with their contents. Another difference between the program and other similar utilities is that when restoring files in Windows 2000/XP and FAT32 operating systems, it is not always possible to restore them completely. Therefore, the program we are considering restores them in several versions, most suitable in terms of their content, so that the user can then determine which of them is more suitable, and by other means can select the necessary information from them if the file is not completely restored. (But they didn’t want to restore the archived files. The program didn’t show them among the files in the deleted partitions.)
The specific features of the NTFS file system do not allow individual files to determine the partition in which they were previously located. Such files are placed in the common Lost files folder.

A special feature of the program is also the ability to save and then work with a disk image. The authors suggest creating such an image before you start restoring files (especially if the number of files being restored is large), and also to prevent the disk content from being destroyed due to incorrect user actions. It is recommended to create a disk image (file) on other logical drives or on network drives. After its creation, such an image can be connected to the program in the simplest way, and it can be worked with as with a real logical disk.

The program behaves very well in the case
file recovery from broken disks. Having detected an unreadable cluster, it will not try to extract information from it, but will write zeros instead and move on to the next cluster.

FinalData

[Short list of functionality]

Already a bit old (there have been no official updates for more than a year), but still quite a convenient set of programs that can automatically find drives, even if the Boot Sector or file allocation table has been deleted or damaged, and also restore files that are not referenced from the directory. Even after partitioning your hard drive and converting one file system to another, you can recover information and save it to network drives.

The function of monitoring and protecting files from accidental destruction looks very useful and necessary (unfortunately, this function was not available in the demo and I was not able to test it in practice).
FinalData will also help you recover information from damaged CDs, permanently delete unnecessary information, clean your donkey, cache and history, restore MS Office files and email messages, etc. etc. etc. and h.z.ch.

Memory Stick Data Rescue Service

But this is no longer quite ordinary software. It allows you to recover photos and data files that were written to a Memory Stick and subsequently lost or deleted. File Rescue software is free and can be downloaded from Sony's customer support site. Before downloading the file recovery software, the program will require the user to register the Memory Stick model name and serial number. Simple and user-friendly MSFR is capable of recovering jpg (DCF format), MPEG1 and mp4 (MS Video file format) files and, in addition, is also capable of
recover most office files, including documents prepared using PowerPoint and Word. Once a Memory Stick is inserted into the slot, MSFR guides the user through seven simple steps that scan, repair, and rewrite files.

Memory Stick File Rescue is compatible with all types of Sony Memory Stick media sold since 1998. The success of file recovery depends on the state of the data and whether any data was written “over” the file being recovered.

Dead Disk Doctor

[All standard features]

The program is distinguished by an original algorithm for searching and correcting errors on partially unreadable media. It allows you to minimize the loss of “live” data when trying to restore information in “dead” areas during block reading. The file is read in blocks of 10 KB, and when the device (CD-ROM, for example) generates an error, the block size is reduced by 10 times, the attempt is repeated, and so on until the data block is read without errors. If the block size reaches the minimum, the program skips one byte and starts reading from the next. After successful reading, the block size increases 10 times, etc., until it reaches a maximum of 10 KB.
Thanks to this non-standard solution, in many cases it is possible to recover even information that was not susceptible to other anti-deleteers.

GetDataBack

[All standard features]

A fairly powerful and interesting means of information recovery, worthy of participating in our race. Regardless of what happened to the information, whether it was deleted, whether there was physical damage to the hard drive or a crash of a running program, or even low-level formatting of the HDD, GetDataBack will most likely be able to return all the information written to the disk. GetDataBack allows data recovery both on the computer on which the program is installed and on a remote one, for example, on any computer on a local network; Another good feature is fast operation.

Finish

Search and Recover, in my opinion, has left everyone behind in terms of speed of scanning and recovering information, but in terms of capabilities and richness of functionality (I don’t know of files that the program could not recover), EasyRecovery has taken the lead. The rest of the programs turned out to be too specific and of them I would like to highlight Dead Disk Doctor, which can help in almost hopeless situations.

Hello.

Not long ago I had to recover several photos from a flash drive that was accidentally formatted. This is not an easy matter, and while we were able to recover most of the files, we had to get acquainted with almost all popular programs for data recovery.

In this article I would like to provide a list of these programs (by the way, all of them can be classified as universal, since they can recover files both from hard drives and from other media, for example, from an SD memory card or flash drive USB).

The result was a rather small list of 22 programs ( further in the article, all programs are sorted alphabetically).

Website: http://7datarecovery.com/

OS: Windows: XP, 2003, 7, Vista, 8

Description:

Firstly, this utility immediately pleases you with the presence of the Russian language. Secondly, it is quite multifunctional; after launch, it offers you 5 recovery options:

Recovering files from damaged and formatted hard drive partitions;

Recovering accidentally deleted files;

Recovering files deleted from flash drives and memory cards;

Recovering disk partitions (when the MBR is damaged, the disk is formatted, etc.);

Recover files from Android phones and tablets.

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Website: http://www.file-recovery.net/

OS: Windows: Vista, 7, 8

Description:

A program for recovering accidentally deleted data or data from damaged disks. Supports work with multiple file systems: FAT (12, 16, 32), NTFS (5, + EFS).

In addition, it can work directly with a hard drive when its logical structure is damaged. In addition, the program supports:

All types of hard drives: IDE, ATA, SCSI;

Memory cards: SunDisk, MemoryStick, CompactFlash;

USB devices (flash drives, external hard drives).

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3. Active Partition Recovery

OS: Windows 7, 8

Description:

One of the important features of this program is that it can be run under both DOS and Windows. This is possible due to the fact that it can be written to a bootable CD (or flash drive).

This utility is usually used to recover entire hard drive partitions, rather than individual files. By the way, the program allows you to make an archive (copy) of MBR tables and hard disk sectors ( boot data).

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4. Active UNDELETE

Website: http://www.active-undelete.com/

OS: Windows 7/2000/2003/2008/XP

Description:

Let me tell you that this is one of the most versatile data recovery programs. The main thing is that it supports:

1. all the most popular file systems: NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, NTFS5, NTFS+EFS;

2. works in all Windows OS;

3. Supports a large number of media: SD, CF, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, ZIP, USB flash drives, external USB hard drives, etc.

Interesting features of the full version:

Support for hard drives larger than 500 GB;

Support for hardware and software RAID arrays;

Creating emergency boot disks (about emergency disks);

The ability to search for deleted files using a variety of attributes (especially important when there are a lot of files, the hard drive is capacious, and you definitely don’t remember the file name or its extension).

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Website: http://www.aidfile.com/

OS: Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012, XP, 7, 8 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Description:

At first glance, it is not a very big utility, and also without the Russian language (but this is only at first glance). This program is capable of recovering data in a variety of situations: software error, accidental formatting, deletion, virus attacks, etc.

By the way, as the developers themselves state, the percentage of file recovery with this utility is higher than many of its competitors. Therefore, if other programs cannot restore your lost data, it makes sense to take the risk of checking the disk with this utility.

Some interesting features:

1. Recovers Word, Excel, Power Pont, etc. files.

2. Can restore files when reinstalling Windows OS;

3. A fairly “strong” option for restoring various photographs and pictures (and on different types of media).

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Website: http://www.byclouder.com/

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8 (x86, x64)

Description:

What pleases us about this program is its simplicity. After launch, it immediately (and on the great and mighty one) prompts you to scan the disks...

The utility is capable of searching for a wide variety of file types: archives, audio and video, documents. You can scan different types of media (albeit with varying degrees of success): CDs, flash drives, hard drives, etc. It’s quite easy to learn.

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7. Disk Digger

Website: http://diskdigger.org/

OS: Windows 7, Vista, XP

Description:

A fairly simple and convenient program (does not require installation, by the way), which will help you easily and quickly recover deleted files: music, movies, pictures, photos, documents. The media can be different: from a hard drive to flash drives and memory cards.

Supported file systems: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS.

To summarize: a utility with fairly average capabilities will help mainly in the “simplest” cases.

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Website: http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/Windows Server 2012/2008/2003 (x86, x64)

Description:

Excellent file recovery program! It will help in a variety of troubles: accidental deletion of files, unsuccessful formatting, partition damage, power failure, etc.

It is possible to recover even encrypted and compressed data! The utility supports all the most popular file systems: VFAT, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS/NTFS5 EXT2, EXT3.

Sees and allows you to scan a wide variety of media: IDE/ATA, SATA, SCSI, USB, external hard drives, Fire wire (IEEE1394), flash drives, digital cameras, floppy disks, audio players and many other devices.

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Website: http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/recovery-software/

OS: Windows 95/98 Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7

Description:

One of the best programs for data recovery, which will help in case of a simple error during deletion, and in cases when you no longer have to rely on other utilities.

Separately, it is worth saying that the program allows you to successfully find 255 different types of files (audio, video, documents, archives, etc.), supports FAT and NTFS systems, hard drives (IDE/ATA/EIDE, SCSI), floppy disks (Zip and Jazz).

Among other things, EasyRecovery has a built-in function that will help you check and evaluate the condition of the disk (by the way, in one of the articles we previously discussed the issue).

The EasyRecovery utility helps to recover data in the following cases:

Accidental deletion (for example, when using the Shift button);
- Viral infection;
- Damage due to power outage;
- Problems creating partitions when installing Windows;
- Damage to the file system structure;
- Formatting the media or using the FDISK program.

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10. GetData Recovery My Files Professional

Website: http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

Description:

Recover My Files is a pretty good program for recovering various types of data: graphics, documents, music and video archives.

In addition, it supports all the most popular file systems: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5.

Some features:

Supports more than 300 data types;

Can recover files from HDD, flash cards, USB devices, floppy disks;

A special function for recovering Zip archives, PDF files, autoCad drawings (if your file fits this type, I definitely recommend trying this program).

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Website: http://www.handyrecovery.ru/

OS: Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

Description:

A fairly simple program, with a Russian interface, designed to recover deleted files. Can be used in a variety of cases: virus attack, software failures, accidental deletion of files from the recycle bin, formatting a hard drive, etc.

After scanning and analysis, Handy Recovery will give you the opportunity to view the disk (or other media, for example, a memory card) just like in a regular Explorer, only along with “normal files” you will see files that have been deleted.

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Website: http://www.icare-recovery.com/

OS: Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 pro, Server 2008, 2003, 2000

Description:

A very powerful program for recovering deleted and formatted files from various types of media: USB flash cards, SD memory cards, hard drives. The utility can help recover a file from an unreadable disk partition (Raw) if the MBR boot record is damaged.

Unfortunately, there is no support for the Russian language. After launch, you will have the opportunity to choose from 4 masters:

1. Partition Recovery - a wizard that will help you recover deleted hard drive partitions;

2. Deleted File Recovery - this wizard is used to recover deleted file(s);

3. Deep Scan Recovery - scanning the disk for existing files and files that can be recovered;

4. Format Recovery - a wizard that will help you recover files after formatting.

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13. MiniTool Power Data

Website: http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/

OS: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8

Description:

Quite a good file recovery program. Supports several types of media: SD, Smartmedia, Compact Flash, Memory Stick, HDD. It is used in a variety of cases of information loss: be it a virus attack or erroneous formatting.

The good news is that the program has a Russian interface and you can easily figure everything out. After launching the utility, you are offered several wizards to choose from:

1. Recovering files after accidental deletion;

2. Recovering damaged hard drive partitions, for example, an unreadable Raw partition;

3. Recovering lost partitions (when you don’t see that there are partitions on your hard drive at all);

4. Recovery of CD/DVD discs. By the way, it’s a very useful thing, because... Not every program has this option.

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14. O&O Disk Recovery

Website: http://www.oo-software.com/

OS: Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP

Description:

O&O DiskRecovery is a very powerful utility for recovering information from many types of media. Most deleted files (if you did not write other information to disk) can be recovered using the utility. Data can be reconstructed even if the hard drive has been formatted!

The program is very easy to use (besides, there is a Russian language). After launch, the utility will prompt you to select the media to scan. The interface is designed in such a style that even an unprepared user will feel quite confident; the wizard will guide him step by step and help recover lost information.

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Website: http://rlab.ru/tools/rsaver.html

OS: Windows 2000/ 2003/XP/ Vista/Windows 7

Description:

Firstly, this is a free program (considering that there are too many free programs for data recovery, this is a compelling argument).

Secondly, full support for the Russian language.

Thirdly, it shows very good results. The program supports FAT and NTFS file systems. Can recover documents after formatting or accidental deletion. The interface is designed in a minimalist style. Scanning is started with just one button (the program will select the algorithms and settings independently).

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Website: http://www.piriform.com/recuva

OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8

Description:

A very simple program (and also free), designed for an untrained user. Using it, step by step, you can recover many types of files from various media.

Recuva scans the disk (or flash drive) quite quickly, and then displays a list of files that can be recovered. By the way, files are marked with markers (well-readable, which means it’s easy to recover; medium-readable - the chances are small, but there are; poorly readable - there’s little chance, but you can try).

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Website: http://www.reneelab.com/

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8

Description:

A very simple program for data recovery. Mainly intended for the recovery of photographs, pictures, and some types of documents. At least, it shows itself better than many other programs of this kind.

This utility also has one interesting feature - creating a disk image. It can be very useful, backup has not been canceled yet!

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18. Restorer Ultimate Pro Network

Website: http://www.restorer-ultimate.com/

OS: Windows: 2000/XP/ 2003/Vista/2008/ 7/8

Description:

This program dates back to the 2000s. At that time, the Restorer 2000 utility was popular, and by the way, it was not bad at all. It was replaced by the Restorer Ultimate program. In my humble opinion, the program is one of the best for recovering lost information (plus Russian language support).

The professional version of the program supports recovery and reconstruction of RAID data (regardless of the complexity level); It is possible to restore partitions that the system marks as Raw (unreadable).

By the way, using this program you can connect to the desktop of another computer and try to restore files on it!

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Website: http://www.r-tt.com/

OS: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8

Description:

R-Studio is probably the most famous program for recovering deleted information from disk/flash drives/memory cards and other media. The program works simply amazing; it is possible to recover even those files that I did not “dream of” before launching the program.

Possibilities:

1. Supports all Windows operating systems (except: Macintosh, Linux and UNIX);

2. It is possible to restore data via the Internet;

3. Support for just a huge number of file systems: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 (created or modified in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Win7), HFS/HFS (Macintosh), Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS (Linux);

4. Possibility of restoring RAID disk arrays;

5. Creating disk images. Such an image, by the way, can be compressed and written to a flash drive or other hard drive.

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Website: http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_pro.php

OS: Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 (full support for 32 and 64-bit OS).

Description:

A professional program designed for data recovery. Includes a huge set of wizards that will help in most cases:

Undelete - search and restore deleted files;

Raw recovery - search for lost hard drive partitions;

Restoring RAID arrays;

Functions for recovering files during a virus attack, formatting, repartitioning the hard drive, etc.

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Website: http://www.wondershare.com/

OS: Windows 8, 7

Description:

Wondershare Data Recovery is a very powerful program that will help you recover deleted, formatted files from your computer, external hard drive, mobile phone, camera, and other devices.

It’s nice to have the Russian language and handy instructors who will guide you step by step. After starting the program, you are given 4 wizards to choose from:

1. File recovery;

2. Raw recovery;

3. Recovering hard drive partitions;

4. Resumption.

See screenshot below.

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22. Zero Assumption Recovery

Website: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/

OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

Description:

This program differs from many others in that it supports long Russian file names. This is very convenient when restoring (in other programs you will see “kryakozabry” instead of Russian characters, as in this one).

The program supports file systems: FAT16/32 and NTFS (including NTFS5). Also noteworthy is support for long file names, support for multiple languages, and the ability to restore RAID arrays.

A very interesting digital photo search mode. If you are restoring graphic files, be sure to try this program, its algorithms are simply amazing!

The program can work in case of virus attacks, incorrect formatting, erroneous deletion of files, etc. Recommended to have on hand for those who rarely (or don't) back up files.

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That's all. In one of the following articles I will supplement the article with the results of practical tests, which programs were able to recover information. Have a great weekend and don't forget to back up so you don't have to restore anything...

Description of top programs for recovering deleted computer data: Recuva, Hetman Partition Recovery, EaseUS Data Recovery, UndeletePlus, R-Studio, Ontrack EasyRecovery. Overview of features and video. Personal computers and laptops, smartphones and tablets, and other digital devices today are used by users to store important and personal data. And although the reliability of each of these devices today does not raise any doubts, the issue of data safety and security is still very important for the user.

Digital or storage devices can fail or become damaged for many reasons beyond the control of the user or manufacturer, resulting in data loss. There are no devices that would 100% guarantee the safety of data to the user. But, in case of loss of important information as a result of system damage or accidental deletion, there is a chance to recover lost files.

If a file is deleted, regardless of the reasons and method of deletion, the information is not permanently deleted from the storage device. It is simply marked as one that has been deleted and is considered by the system as such (for the system, this option is much less resource-intensive than complete deletion), until the information is overwritten by other files. This means that a deleted file can be recovered as long as a certain amount of information has not been saved to the disk, which could overwrite the necessary files.

You can recover a deleted or lost file using data recovery programs:

Hetman Partition Recovery

R-Studio


Pros and Cons of R-Studio

  • The program has a fairly wide range of functions for data recovery
  • Can create a disk image for later data recovery
  • High percentage of recoverable files
  • Availability of a built-in HEX editor
  • Quite simple and not very intuitive interface
  • The process of scanning storage media, recovering data, creating an image, etc. takes a long time - the program cannot be called fast
  • Lack of ability to preview documents, video files and listen to audio files

Features of the program

The program itself is unlike all other data recovery tools. If you understand its interface, you will eventually realize that it is very simple, but for an inexperienced user it will not be easy to intuitively understand the sequence of actions to restore your data.

Our opinion

R-Studio gives the impression of being a quality data recovery tool that has had a lot of time and effort put into it. But looking at the interface, one gets the impression that, in pursuit of implementing as many functions of their program as possible, the developers forgot about its users, or the program was actually intended for advanced users or IT specialists who should not have many questions.

But no matter what, I was very pleased with the ability to create a disk image, as well as restore data from it, and, in addition, the ability to recover deleted or lost disk partitions and data from them.

Ontrack EasyRecovery

Ontrack EasyRecovery is a universal data recovery program for home users and businesses. Since this is the only tool from the developer’s company designed to recover files and folders, they tried to make it as universal as possible, with the maximum range of functions, supported file formats and storage media. As a result, users can benefit from a comprehensive data recovery tool, but at a very high cost.

Pros and Cons of Ontrack EasyRecovery

  • Versatility
  • There is a version for Windows and Mac
  • VMware virtual machine data recovery feature available
  • High price of the program
  • The validity period of the purchased license is only 1 year
  • The virtual machine (VMware) data recovery function is available only in Enterprise versions, the price of which is significantly higher than Professional and Home
  • The only available interface language is English (in the official version of the program)

Features of the program

There are no functional features that distinguish Ontrack EasyRecovery from other similar tools.

Our opinion

Ontrack EasyRecovery is a program for recovering files and folders, which is initially positioned by the manufacturer as the highest quality. But after taking a closer look at the tool and trying to recover data with it, we did not find any peculiarities in the functions or the quality of file recovery. A big advantage of Ontrack EasyRecovery is its support for virtual machine data recovery, but it is only available in the expensive corporate Enterprise version.

To recover data with Ontrack EasyRecovery, run the program and select the type of storage media from which you want to recover files.


Indicate what actions need to be performed with the storage medium.


After the scanning process is completed, the program will display all detected files and folders. To restore, just right-click on it and select "Save as..." ("Save as…").


For information on how to recover documents from a USB flash drive after formatting using Ontrack EasyRecovery, read the detailed article. ( 5 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5)

Loss of information can occur as a result of unfortunate accidents with the deletion or breakdown of storage media. One of the important files may be accidentally deleted; in organizations, a similar situation may arise when using shared folders (public directories). And if such a nuisance does occur, use best programs to recover deleted files to get back deleted information.

One of the most popular solutions for recovering lost files is Recuva. One of the main advantages of this application is that it is distributed absolutely free. With its help, you can recover deleted information on a hard drive, removable drives, flash drives, etc. Recuva does not require significant resources when running, which will allow it to work at the moment when the program finds deleted data.

It works almost automatically and after the work has been done, the user only needs to check the boxes on those positions that need to be returned. In addition, the user can choose what data to search in remote segments: if you accidentally deleted the desired text document, Recuva will search specifically for text documents, not executable files, etc.

A significant drawback is the fact that it will not be possible to find files after a certain time has passed when certain data was written to the media. Also, Recuva will be completely useless if the hard drive or removable drive has been formatted.

- the simplest program

Easily recover information from any media. The interface is visually clear and will not cause any difficulties even for novice users. Before starting data recovery, you will be asked to select a search location and select the file type. Also, the user is given a choice of conditions as a result of which the information was lost: formatting, deletion, damage to the media.

Perhaps the only drawback is the fact that data can be resuscitated if it was not deleted through the recycle bin.

– a powerful data recovery tool

Many experts are convinced that R-Studio is the most comprehensive tool for recovering deleted or lost files. In order to return the necessary data, even significant damage to hard disk sectors that do not even allow you to load the operating system will not be a hindrance, because this program can be launched from a bootable flash drive or CD, DVD disk and worked with it in Live CD mode.

In addition to recovering information from media, this program allows you to:

  • restoration of RAID arrays;
  • restoring partitions after formatting;
  • support for FAT, NTFS, ext, MAC OS Extended file systems.

A significant disadvantage of this software is that it is paid and to use it you need to shell out certain funds, which can repel users.

Data recovery on the platform OS Android

Sometimes data recovery is necessary not on a computer or laptop, but on mobile devices: smartphone, tablet. In order to recover lost information on gadgets running on the Android OS platform, you can use two products that are really effective:

  • Android at Wondershare Dr. Fone;
  • 7-Data Android Recovery.

Without much difficulty, these programs will help you recover not only deleted photos or text files, but also your contact list. In terms of interface, they are very similar to the Recuva program.

Complex problem solving with help from

As a rule, recovery programs are universal and contain many functions. This is certainly convenient, but sometimes software that is designed for specific purposes can be much better and more efficient.

Recovery Software offers seven products at once that are responsible for one or another area of ​​recovery:

  • RS Partition Recovery. Allows you to return data if removable media or hard drive has been formatted.
  • RS NTFS Recovery. Recovers information on hard drives that were equipped with the NTFS file system.
  • RS FAT Recovery. Similar program to the above, except that it is used for the FAT file system.
  • RS Data Recovery. One of the most common packages, which, according to experts, can return any user information on any media.
  • RS File Recovery. This is an identical version of the previous package, which allows you to recover any lost files on a damaged hard drive or return accidentally deleted information.
  • RS Photo Recovery. Specially designed for restoring photographs and graphic images.
  • RS File Repair. There are situations when the file is damaged (incomplete). In this case, they either do not open at all, or they contain only part of the information. This package is designed specifically to recover just such files.

There are many more worthy utilities that recover deleted files: Power Data Recovery, Stellar Phoenix, Data Rescue PC, Seagate File Recovery for Windows, 7 Data Recovery Suite. There are differences in GUI and functionality between them, but they are minor, and in different situations, one program may be suitable that will best cope with the task. The choice of programs in this area depends only on you and on the tasks assigned to them.

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