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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.

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.

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors.The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, run it in reverse mode, etc.

Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. This process is commonly referred to as data carving. Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive. The headers and footers can be specified by a configuration file or you can use command line switches to specify built-in file types. These built-in types look at the data structures of a given file format allowing for a more reliable and faster recovery. »

DM Disk Editor and Data Recovery (DMDE) is a disk editor which can help you to understand NTFS. Its capable to view your hard disk sector wise, on MFT level, to disect mft attributes and to edit bytes on your hard disk.

safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, hard disk partitions, CDs, tape devices, ..., where other tools like dd would fail due to I/O error

Scalpel-2.0 - Scalpel; File Carving. Configuration files are modified.

Extract images from PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel and other files. For Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

File Recovery and Repair software for data loss, data recovery, file repair and disk diagnostics. EasyRecovery repairs and restores lost data.

Memory card recovery software to restore lost files and photos from SD, XD, CF card after deleting, formatting, not formatted error, raw file system error, factory resetting, etc. from ANY kind of card/USB.It supports all types of memory card including SD card, mini SD card, micro SD card, SDHC, MMC, XD card, CF card, memory stick etc from 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB to 64 GB.It enables you to restore data from other storage devices including digital camera, mobile phone, hard drive, flash drive, etc. »

FlashPhoenix is a data recovery tool for various flash cards (SmartMedia , CompactFlash, Memory Stick, MicroDrive, xD Picture Card Flash Card, PC Card, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card, etc) and digital camera memory. It can effectively recover corrupted or lost data from formatted, damaged, unreadable or defective storage media.

Find and extract embedded multimedia resources. Discover hidden images, audio, video or documents within files. Browser tool, no uploads and no installation necessary.