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You might need to launch bplan. This free data recovery tool from Stellar is easy to use because it walks you through a simple wizard where you select what and where to search for deleted files.
A unique feature in this program is the preview option you have while the scan is taking place. You can watch, in real time, which files the program finds before the scan completes.
Something else I like about Stellar's free file recovery program is that when you exit the results screen, you're given the option to save the list of deleted files so that you can resume recovering them later. All that said, I've placed this program toward the bottom of the list because of its severe limitations.
It's still usable if you need it, but don't count on recovering a whole lot of files for free. It's available for Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7, as well as macOS 13 and older versions. Unlike most file recovery tools, this one doesn't let you see how successful the file recovery will be.
SoftPerfect File Recovery makes it very easy to search for recoverable files. Anyone should be able to use this program with very little trouble. It will undelete files from hard drives, memory cards, etc. SoftPerfect File Recovery is a small, KB, standalone file, making the program very portable.
Feel free to run File Recovery from a USB drive or floppy disk. Scroll down a bit on the download page to find it. According to the developer's website, bit versions of Windows operating systems are also supported.
I tested v1. The free PhotoRec file recovery tool does the job, but it isn't nearly as easy to use as other programs in this list.
It's limited by its command-line interface and multiple step recovery process. However, my greatest problem with it is that it's very difficult to avoid recovering all deleted files at once, not just the one or two you're after. It can get back deleted files from hard drives, optical drives, and memory cards.
PhotoRec should be able to undelete files from any storage device on your PC. If another tool hasn't worked, give this one a try. I just don't recommend making it your first pick. I tested it in Windows 7, but since the minimum OS requirement is Vista, it should work equally well in Windows 11, 10, and 8.
It also runs on Mac and Linux. The recoverability state of the file isn't shown, so you don't know whether it will be usable upon recovery. UndeleteMyFiles Pro is another free file recovery program. Don't let the name fool you—it's entirely free, even though it says "Pro.
Tree View and Detailed View are the two viewing perspectives you can choose from. You can also preview files, which sounds nice, but all it does is restores the data to a temporary folder and then opens it.
Emergency Disk Image is a handy feature included in UndeleteMyFiles Pro. It takes a snapshot of your entire computer, places all the data in one file, and then lets you work through that file to find deleted data that you want to restore.
This is very handy because after the image file has been made, you don't need to worry that new data written to your hard drive will replace any important deleted files. There's a nice search option in this program that lets you search by file location, type, size, and attributes.
Something I really didn't like is that the recovery process doesn't tell you if a file is in a good state of being recoverable, like most of the other software in this list.
I tested UndeleteMyFiles Pro on Windows 8 and XP, and it worked as advertised, so it should also work in other versions of Windows. However, I also tested v3. The thing I like most about Restoration is how incredibly simple it is to recover files. There are no cryptic buttons or complicated file recovery procedures—everything you need is in one, easy to understand program window.
This program can recover files from hard drives, memory cards, USB drives, and other external drives. Like some of the other popular data recovery tools on this list, Restoration is small and does not need to be installed, giving it the flexibility to be run from a USB drive.
However, its inability to recover a whole folder at once just single files makes it hard to recommend before some of these other, better choices. I also don't like that there's no indication about a file's recoverability before you try to get it back.
Restoration is said to support Windows Vista, XP, , NT, ME, 98, and I successfully tested it with Windows 7, and didn't run into any problems. However, v3. True, there are many more file recovery programs than those listed above, but I've only included true freeware file recovery programs that also undelete wide ranges of files.
Law enforcement agents use forensics tools to search computers for digital evidence. Forensics tools can't always completely recover files, but they can find traces of data that can be helpful in investigations. Yes, but file recovery programs probably won't help if the hard drive is physically damaged.
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Others use tactics like phishing to convince employees to give up their credentials. Simple mistakes can result in the accidental or intentional deletion of critical files or systems.
Some of the biggest data breaches in recent years were the result of human error. Many involve lost devices or employees ignoring cybersecurity rules.
Disasters can be the loss of premises or anything that destroys the physical computer, such as fire, flooding, vandalism, severe storms, power emergencies, earthquakes, and terrorism. These events could potentially destroy or prevent you from accessing your computers and on-premise servers.
Whatever the root cause of data loss, the result is the same. The annual cost of data loss to businesses in the United States is challenging to measure. Almost half of that amount is directly attributable to loss of business—in other words, the time it takes for a company to recover data, the work interrupted while systems are being restored, and the loss of trust from customers and the general public.
SMBs that lack the resources to recover data from a devastating loss might be forced to shut down as a result. Data loss can have a number of costly consequences, including:. To protect your company from the costs of data loss, make sure you have a solid backup and recovery plan in place.
A proactive approach is critical to data loss prevention. Like the adage tells us, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Being prepared for any scenario helps you avoid downtime and the often outrageous IT effort and expense of restoring your systems to a working state.
Your backup plan is the foundation of this effort. The backup methodology suggests three copies, two of which are on different storage mediums and one stored offsite in case you lose your physical premises. Here are a few strategies you can put into play today:. Data recovery software offers many benefits and business advantages.
Here are just a few:. When you consider the potential cost of data loss—from lost productivity to fines and data recovery cost in the absence of proper backups—a recovery app delivers incredible value. The low monthly subscription fee pays for itself in peace of mind alone.
Any downtime due to data loss is costly. A data recovery app supports immediate restoration, minimizing loss from unscheduled downtime. Without data recovery software, it might be beyond internal capabilities to restore systems to a working state.
Recovery apps are designed to be user-friendly, meaning that just about anybody can be trained to leverage its features. Data recovery software offers that level of customization, minimizing data loss and all associated costs. Suppose you handle customer data on any level, whether payment card information, personally identifiable information PII or intellectual property; the onus is on you to ensure data protection.
Data recovery software protects customer data from unauthorized access using advanced encryption techniques. Train new team members, experiment with new processes, and innovate with confidence — with a complete data backup, no mistake is undoable.
Many people confuse a disaster recovery plan with a business continuity plan. The two often go hand-in-hand but are very different. The plan is usually written down and communicated to relevant vendors and parties to take consistent actions before, during, and after a data loss event.
A business continuity plan begins with a business impact analysis during and following a disaster event. Your business continuity plan maps the impact and the legal, contractual, and regulatory obligations of your business following a disaster.
A recovery plan is usually more focused than a business continuity plan. It addresses all forms of operation disruption, including losing access due to terrorist threats or low-impact natural disasters, hardware failures, malware attacks, etc. The plan is usually organized by type of disaster and location and contains instructions that anyone — not just advanced users — can implement.
The key difference between the two relates to when the plan takes effect. Business continuity requires you to keep your operations functional as far as possible during a disaster event and during the immediate aftermath.
Discovery recovery focuses on how to respond after a disaster event and how to return to normal. For example, if a natural disaster destroyed your office building, your business continuity plan will help employees work remotely from rented computers.
Your disaster recovery solution will restore your data back into your desired platform so that employees can get back to their normal way of working as soon as possible.
This way, your recovery plan enables the continuity and normal operations of your business. Although most companies have disaster recovery plans in place, they often neglect to plan for data loss and restoration.
The reality is that data loss can be just as damaging as a major outage. In fact, data loss can often be more costly and time-consuming to recover from than an outage.
When you have a data recovery plan in place, you can minimize the damage caused by data loss. It also outlines the critical tools needed to complete the restoration.
The more integrated these plans are with each other, the easier it is for your business to understand and comply with all aspects of them. Installing a data recovery app to protect your business systems brings with it a sense of security and peace of mind. We had the same results when using the "Media Scan" feature.
When we tested with a simulated corrupted drive, UnDeleteMyFiles Pro wasn't able to see this at all, so no recovery could take place. When it comes to data recovery, there aren't really all that many options other than the ability to search for particular types of files to reduce the size of the list you have to sort through.
There's no indication of the quality of files, as we saw when we attempted to restore deleted ones only to find they couldn't be opened. One saving grace of this utility is that it contains a disk snapshot tool which can create an image of your drive as a single file.
This allows you to attempt data recovery without risking making things worse. You can also send the image to professional data recovery services if necessary, which is a much better option than mailing your entire device to them.
There's also a secure file deletion tool, and email recovery. Worth checking out, even if this is not necessarily the best of the bunch. When it comes to ease of use, it's hard to beat Wise Data Recovery. Although this free data recovery software doesn't have a wizard-led interface, there are no complicated configuration settings to worry about either.
Tracking down recoverable data is a simple matter of selecting the drive you want to check and clicking 'Scan'. Whichever route you choose, recoverable data is presented in an Explorer-like tree structure that makes it easy to tell where it was originally stored.
Like all the best free data recovery software, Wise Data Recovery uses a traffic light system to indicate the health of files and therefore how likely it is that you'll be able to recover them intact, and there's a file preview feature so you can identify files that have been detected.
You can recover individual files, or entire folders at once, but selecting numerous files in several locations means performing several operations.
Its 2GB recovery limit is better than most no-cost rivals, and you can use the free download on an infinite number of systems and with no time restrictions. Our first test was on a deleted drive whose files had been emptied from the Recycle Bin.
Wise performed a scan in less than 3 seconds and was able to recover all the original files with their filenames intact. Wise Data Recovery didn't do quite so well on the drive that had been formatted after the files were deleted.
In that case only around half the files were recovered. With one exception the filenames were intact. Finally we ran a scan on our simulated corrupted drive. The utility was able to recognize the "Lost Drive" almost immediately and recovered all the original files, with filenames intact.
Read our full Wise Data Recovery review. Finding recoverable data with EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free is very simple: select a drive or folder and wait for a few minutes while it completes its scan. You can browse through the recoverable data using a Windows Explorer style interface and filter them by type or opt to search for specific files.
Data recovery is effective, but the Deep Scan option is very slow, so you'll need to be patient. The installation of this software is a mixed experience. The installer, importantly, advises not to install to the same drive that you want to recover data from because this could overwrite data and render it unrecoverable.
It also, sadly, tries to enrol you in a customer experience improvement program, without explaining what this entails. It's worth noting that the free version only allows for the recovery of up to 2GB of data, so it's not going to be suitable for all circumstances, but it will be enough to get you out of most sticky situations.
We had a hard time squaring this free allowance on our tests, as after attempting to recover a MB folder on a MB drive just three times, our allowance was reduced to around MB. It's possible the 2GB limit may apply to the size of the drive being scanned instead of the amount of data recovered.
However, during all our tests EaseUS ran incredibly quickly. Read our full EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free review. The website boasts that any lost data file type can be recovered, from almost any data loss scenario you can think of.
In our first test the utility was able to find all the deleted files that we'd sent to the Recycle Bin. After that you need to pay a one-time lifetime license fee. Overall, this is an excellent recovery utility for both Windows and Mac.
Ontrack EasyRecovery claims to be one of the best data recovery software applications available on the market. It was developed by a provider of file recovery services who has been in business for 35 years. The program touts itself as being both simple to use as well as powerful enough to help you recover from a wide variety of data loss situations.
The Free plan provides up to 1GB of data recovery. There's also a size limit of 25MB on recovered files, though you can 'Preview' lost files to check if they can be recovered with the paid version. Regular scans on the other hand ran extremely fast.
Our first test on the drive where the files had simply been deleted then emptied from the Recycle Bin Ontrack EasyRecovery recovered all the files with the filenames intact. It wasn't quite so successful with the drive that had been formatted after the files were deleted.
In that case some system files were recovered but none of the ones we deleted. Our final test was on a drive with a corrupted volume header. Ontrack EasyRecovery's "Recover From" has a "Can't Find Drive" option, which we clicked and the external hard drive was displayed immediately.
On the first scan, the utility was able to restore the lost partition in order for it to be scanned. We noticed that it still didn't appear in File Explorer however. We then tried to run a regular scan. Where Onetrack EasyRecovery falls down is the rather binary options offered for data recovery.
Our experience was that the utility can do a superficial scan that retrieves only a few files or a huge in-depth sector by sector scan which crashes the app.
Ideally we'd like to see some fine-tuning options, such as searching for 'raw' data for files or the ability to stop a scan cleanly before it's complete to review what data's been recovered. Read our full Ontrack EasyRecovery review. MyRecover is a comprehensive and free data recovery software from AOMEI.
Previously known as AOMEI Data Recovery, the software is available for both Windows and iOS. With MyRecover, users can retrieve all kinds of lost data, including those lost through the Recycle Bin, deleted files, files lost in formatting, lost in system crashes, and virus attacks.
There are two modes available - a quick scan and a deep scan, depending on the amount of data lost, and the method through which it was deleted.
You can recover lost data from almost all Windows storage media, such as HDD, SSD, external hard drive, USB drive, digital camera, SD card, and similar. On both platforms, you can recover various data including images, videos, emails, photos, contacts, call history, and many more.
Apart from a free option, MyRecover also has paid plans, aimed at those that want more advanced features. Windows users get to choose between the Pro and Technician plans. When deciding which data recovery software to download and use, first try to determine how difficult the data might be to recover.
For example, some dual-disk RAID configurations mean that recovery isn't going to be a simple process. Additionally, free or budget software options may have built-in limitations on how much data or how many files you can actually recover. The golden rule of data recovery is never to install the data recovery program onto the same drive from which you want to recover data.
The reason for this is that your system will see the space occupied by deleted files as available for new data, which means they could be overwritten. If your utility supports it, you should also consider creating a disk image of the drive which contains your missing data.
This allows you to recover your files safely without risking overwriting the missing data on the original disk. Creating a disk image also means you can make it available for download to professional data recovery services. If you do decide to go it alone, make sure to download the free version of your chosen data recovery utility first.
You can usually 'preview' recovered files within the program, so you can decide if it's worth paying for a monthly or annual subscription. To test for the best data recovery software we first set up an account with the relevant software platform, whether as a download or as an online service.
We then tested the service to see how the software could be used for recovering data using a virtual machine running Windows 11, to which we attached three different drives.
This allowed us to benchmark various data loss scenarios, such as trying to recover files from a corrupted drive. The files we chose for recovery are an album of Mozart's Music available from the Internet Archive.
We did this as we wanted to see how the utility performed with a wide variety of files, including both common and more obscure formats.
The aim was to push each software platform to see how useful its basic tools were and also how easy it was to get to grips with any more advanced tools. We do not believe that running data recovery tools in a virtual environment has a significant effect on how they function.
Still, if you're considering buying software we encourage you to read all reviews thoroughly and make sure that the developer offers a refund policy. Read how we test, rate, and review products on TechRadar.
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