To understand this, we need to take a look at these 2 terms first - freeware and free software. Freeware is licensed software that is available free of cost for you to use. You can download the original software for free and enjoy all its features for an unlimited period. An example of a popular freeware would be Skype.
Free software, on the other hand, is also available free of cost. However, it is not completely licensed. Apart from downloading and using it for free, you can even suggest any changes and up gradation in its features. It has copyright only on its name, not the entire product. A common example of such software is MySQL. Coming to a freeware data recovery software, it is a software that allows you to recover files deleted by mistake, corrupted, or lost due to system crash or virus attack.
While some of them have both paid and free versions, some are completely free. It is only for you to use and enjoy, not for distributing or editing it. On the other hand, free software for data recovery would be one that you can download, use, and distribute. If you are a developer, you are even free to copy it, edit it, or improve it. The only thing you cannot have is the name of this software. Given below, is a list of freeware data recovery software.
All of them are licensed with complete copyrights. You may enjoy most or all of its features free of cost for as long as you want. The freeware recovery software tools have been listed based on their features as well as consumer reviews. They are all trusted and safe to use software tools used by millions of clients worldwide.
This is the most widely used freeware to recover documents, photos, videos, graphics, and audio files. While the free version allows you to recover up to MB in a year, the paid plans are unlimited. The software is supported by both Windows and Mac machines. Apart from the internal storage, it recovers files from external drives, OS crash, virus attacks, and empty recycle bins too. When it comes to deleted photos, this is one of the most popular choices of data recovery software.
Apart from photos, you can recover several other files using this software too. It even helps you recover files from SD cards, phone memory, and digital cameras.
You can rely on it no matter how damaged your file system is. The free version can recover files up to MB, supporting all formats. WD HDD is a non-volatile storage device that stores data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces. If you are using a Western Digital hard disk, data recovery knowledge is quite important. Data loss happens to everyone every day and everywhere. Sometimes, it becomes necessary to format or delete the partition when you reinstall the operating system.
But, there are users who end up incorrectly formatting or deleting the wrong partition. Far more than that, virus attack s, power failures, partition corruption, and other reasons also cause data loss disasters. When it comes to Western Digital disk recovery, third-party data recovery software should be the preferred choice.
Compared to the complicated and time-consuming manual data recovery service, this option is far better. It only takes a few minutes to restore WD data.
EaseUS file recovery software is designed to easily retrieve data from Western Digital, Samsung, and other hard disk drives. It enables you to perform deleted recovery, format recovery, or partition recovery effectively.
The Filter and Search features can help you access lost files via file types, file names or extensions. Double-click to preview these lost files. Select all the lost hard drive files and click the "Recover" button to save them to another secure location.
All recovered files are automatically saved into one folder based on your saving path. Up to now, it offers Windows and English edition only. So, it cannot work under Mac OS environment. Recuva As well-known data recovery freeware, Recuva is often downloaded and applied by most users who get stuck in file loss troubles due to unexpected delete, shift delete, format , reformat or virus attack.
So, it could be really convenient when you do need recover files with the same file types. Scan lost data based on file locations, like choosing "On my medical card or ipod", "In my documents", "In the Recycle Bin ", "In a specific location" or "I'm not sure" options to start a scan.
Allow people to do a Deep Scan when the first scan has failed to find files. The first scan is often completed within seconds. So, it is really fast. Data recovery result report will be automatically shown there after the data recovery process is completed. Cons : It will automatically install CCleaner on your PC, if you do not pay attention to remove the setting before Recuva installation.
If the first simple scan cannot recover lost files, the Deep Scan can take over an hour on a large drive. Without clicking Switch into advanced mode option at the right up corner, you often cannot preview any listed file there. All the retrieved files will not be automatically packed into one folder, just being displayed there disorderly. While your storage device gets bad sectors or corrupted, many files and folders could not be found and retrieved.
With no Back option, in order to start a Deep Scan, you do have to restart this software and find Enable Deep Scan option there. PhotoRec PhotoRec is also a free data recovery utility that helps recover documents, videos, images, archives from computer hard drives, CD-ROMs, digital camera memory cards. Pros : It is an open-source data recovery program and can be downloaded applied by anyone for free. It is portable. Use it at anytime and anywhere after saving it on your moveable storage devices.
It helps recover files with over file formats, like txt, exe, png, jpg, zip, swf, gif, ico and more. It also works on not only the common hard drives, flash drives and memory cards, and also CD-ROMs and the like devices. Cons : The Dos-like interface is difficult for beginner to understand and use. Find a step-by-step guide to use it, if necessary. There is no mouse support. TestDisk As a companion program of PhotoRec, TestDisk is much more effective in retrieving data from computer hard drive partitions which are missing, deleted, formatted or corrupted and also have a similar DOS-like command line data recovery interface.
Cons : You are supposed to Log in with administrator account to operate this software on your PC. Only computer keyboard buttons could be used to give any order while using this software.
People are supposed to restart computer to access the data you have retrieved. Offer Rescan drive button to allow users to restart a drive scanning directly. Cons : Scanned files could not be previewed there. Do not work when your storage device is physically damaged.
Highlight desired files one by one, since there is no special option to select all files with one click. Fail to close this software all the time during testing and have to end it with Windows task manager. Free undelete Free Undelete is also another completely free data recovery utility to help people recover deleted files with ease and fast speed. Pros : It is surely free to recover files deleted or emptied from Recycle Bin by accident or mistake.
It is fast and the device scanning process is able to be completed with seconds. Easily Double click the desired partition or device to start a quick scanning. Could not review the scanned data, but, a window will be popped out tell whether the file is successfully recovered or not. Offer a filter function to find files according to names or file types.
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