Losing data can be very stressful and might cost you a lot of money to recover it. Fortunately for you, there are many free data recovery software that might be the tool that you need to recover all you precious data back.
Just because they are free doesn’t mean they’re not powerful. Feel free to try as many as you can and see which one works best for you.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
EaseUS is a very popular free data recovery software, the company has a lot of software and this is their attempt in data recovery services. EaseUS can recover your files with just a few clicks. The interface is easy to use and structured similar to Windows Explorer.
EaseUS works by looking for deleted files from your hard drives. Remember that EaseUS will only recover a total of 500 MB of data, but you can upgrade it to up to 2GB for a little bit of work.
Disk Drill
Disk Drill has a very simple design with powerful features. Disk Drill can recover up to 500 MB of deleted data from a wide range of devices. You can see a list of data that you’re going to recover before recovering them, pause and resume the process whenever you want to.
SoftPerfect File Recovery
Don’t be fooled by its simple and minimalistic interface, SoftPerfect is a great data recovery software. It works fast to recover deleted files with very little trouble for the users.
Just like other recover programs, SoftPerfect is able to restore data from hard drives, memory cards, practically from any device that stores data except for CD/DVD drive.
Restoration
The name alone should give you hope in recovering your lost data. Restoration works really fast and that’s the thing that really surprised us. No complicated interface, procedure or anything like that, Restoration works with a single button.
It can restore files from memory cards, hard drives, USB drives and external drives. Restoration can be run from a floppy disk or USB drive and support older version of Windows.
ADRC Data Recovery Tools
Another straight forward data recovery software, ADRC can be used by anyone including people who aren’t tech savvy. It works as advertised, recover data from any storage device except CD/DVD. The software itself only needs 132 KB of space, making it very portable. Unfortunately, it doesn’t support Windows 10.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery
MiniTool can find deleted files very quickly and recover them almost just as fast. With this software you can search for any deleted data, recover multiple folders at the same time, save and copy the list of deleted files, pause or stop the process whenever you want, and filter files by name, extension, size, and date.
The downside is that you need to install MiniTool before you can use it, so it’s not portable. Another downside of this free data recovery software is that you can only recover 1 GB of data before getting the notification that you need to upgrade to a paid version.
