File Recovery Software

[designwebs]

Looking for file recovery software. I have been testing EaseUS Data Recovery as well as Icare Data Recovery.

Anyone got any thoughts or suggestions on other or these 2?

 

[Markverhyden]

What is your objective? Just playing around? Got a real data recovery situation? There has been plenty of threads about various data recovery software packages. And lcoughy has made a couple of posts in the resources section. Personally I use R-Studio's R-Tool's, DR4 (OS X), partedmagic, and test disk.

 

[Pants]

I've got a license for iCare professional myself. Never got to use it yet, professionally. I believe they upgrade you for free for new releases. I started with version 5 in 2012, and about 3 years later (recently) I contacted them and they eMailed me a license for version 6. They seem pretty good, support wise. Anyway, for deleted files, lost partitions, or formatted partitions, yah, I'll use iCare.

 

[Calx]

I've used EaseUs for 10 years. Worked 9/10 times.
Version I have is quite slow, but maybe that is the nature of the job.

 

[JustInTech]

What is your objective? Just playing around? Got a real data recovery situation? There has been plenty of threads about various data recovery software packages. And lcoughy has made a couple of posts in the resources section. Personally I use R-Studio's R-Tool's, DR4 (OS X), partedmagic, and test disk.

I also use R-Studio's R-Tool's, but the Technician license does cost a bit, as a cheaper option DMDE is good and always handy to have a second option . For me the key is getting a good image (or as best as possible, I do have a hardware dr imagers but did start out using dd), then I fire what I can at that image to get the data back.

Software wise I use:

* R-Studio = General file recovery - Good but can be slow although getting quicker with new releases - Expensive for Tech licence
* DMDE = General file recovery - Good but can be slow - Cheap for Tech licence
* CnW Recovery - Specialise in image/video recovery as includes data carving targeted at media but good for general recovery - Reasonable tech/forensics license pricing
* OSFMount - Good for mounting images created from most devices/programs - Free

I do have a few others but usually only use the above, of course hardware dr options is a different topic.

Cheers

 

[TechPJC]

Ontrack Easyrecovery Professional