What's the best, free, File Recovery software?

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

I have a friend who's hard drive took a crap so I told her I'd try to see if I could get any data off. I've run a few programs I found online with less than stellar results. I then ran OnTrack's Trial and that pulled up everything we need. However, that's almost $100 to buy.

Does anyone have any recovery software that's free that I should take a look at that you know does a good job? We're mainly just looking to get the Documents and Pictures folders off.

Thanks!

 

[coffeemonster]

don't know what else is available but I've used Recuva for years.

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva/download

 

[Woelki]

testdisk, photorec und ddrescue

 

[Ketchup]

Recuva.

 

[UsandThem]

What's the best, free, File Recovery software?
Top 8 best, free ,file recovery software :-

1. 
   
   
   • Recuva
   • TestDisk: ...
   • Stellar Data Recovery. ...
   • Undelete 360: ...
   • PhotoRec
   • Pandora Recovery
   • MiniTool Partition Recovery
   • Wise Data Recovery

If you are going to continue to quote articles from other sites,
you need to also include the link instead of plagiarizing their work.
You have done this in every single post here since you joined.

https://fossbytes.com/top-best-free-data-recovery-software-2016/

AT Mod Usandthem

 

[PliotronX]

From my own experience, Recuva, Testdisk, and Puran Recovery. Although I must say that recently these all failed on an external drive that went RAW (where testdisk has worked wonderfully for RAW partitions up until this drive). Zero Assumption Recovery is a commercial product and did the trick.

 

[Shmee]

Rstudio is pretty awesome, but is $$$

 

[rylujow]

Bitwar data recovery software, it offers 30-day free trial, pretty good if you need a large amount of data to be recovered as a test purpose.

 

[jhansman]

Another vote for Recuva. I've recovered thousands of files with it; not fast, but thorough.

 

[johanh83]

I really like ReclaiMe, fast and reliable tool

 

[jacktheripper88]

I've used Easeus Data Recovery, its been pretty reliable

 

[yhelothar]

GetDataBack for NTFS has worked well for me when many others have failed. It costs money though.

 

[UsandThem]

Maybe that only worked for you, and I am not, I am more interested in free software.

Whut?

EaseUS Data Recovery offers a free version, and it is has work for more than just jacktheripper88.

 

[Iron Woode]

Whut?

EaseUS Data Recovery offers a free version, and it is has work for more than just jacktheripper88.

most free versions are just trial versions. Unfortunately, most have a hard cap on the size of the files restored.

 

[UsandThem]

most free versions are just trial versions. Unfortunately, most have a hard cap on the size of the files restored.

I saw that, but it said the free version recovers up to 1 GB in size files.

Anyways, my response was more in less a placeholder to an unintelligible reply.

 

[Iron Woode]

I saw that, but it said the free version recovers up to 1 GB in size files.

Anyways, my response was more in less a placeholder to an unintelligible reply.

I know. I had to recover some files last year and it was difficult to find a free one that allowed whatever file size I needed.

So I bought one and it worked great.

 

[jacktheripper88]

Sorry I'd missed free being a requirement, but I'd used the trial numerous times for small files