A more limited version of their $70 "EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard", but very well designed for basic file recovery. Which can take hours, but may turn up more missing data than the other non-PhotoRec options here. But the only freeware option I've studied that can do a "deep scan" of your drives for lost files. Somewhat less elegant than the above one. 100% free, by Piriform, the maker of the very popular CCleaner/Crap Cleaner system cleaner. Other freeware/non-open source file recovery alternatives that are reliable and work well: So the TestDisk/PhotoRec package may be all you need. Its designed mainly for recovery of photos off all media, but it supports many different file formats. Its sister program included in its download- PhotoRec -can do file recovery. For those functions, there is no better program out there. Note that TestDisk is only for recovering lost partitions and making non-bootable partitions bootable again. The author of TestDisk was also responsive to emails when I encountered a unique issue with the drives I ended up needing help with. I continue to use and recommend TestDisk. The last time I used Diskeeper or recommended it. It was the only thing I found (freeware or pay) that relatively easily restored a couple of NTFS logical partitions-and all data-after they were destroyed by an older version (8.0) of Diskeeper's "boot optimization" defragging. No question with TestDisk as an excellent open source/free recovery option.
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