Recovering deleted programs from your hard drive, flash drives, and external SD cards is a rather expensive and sought-after service. A trip to the service center is a reliable and most often the best option for solving this problem. But in some cases, when, for example, the hard drive was accidentally formatted, you can seek help from a special software to recover lost data. If, as they say, your hands are in place, then your intervention will not entail an aggravation of the situation, and in difficult cases you can refuse to take independent actions and still turn to specialists.
Consider several programs for recovering hard drives, which are distinguished by their effectiveness, understandable to the average user functionality and accessibility. All utilities have excellent compatibility with the Windows operating system, and some can work with Apple and Android platforms. It is also worth noting that all the software described below is extremely easy to install (we launched the executable file, selected the folder and get to work in a couple of minutes) and is not picky about the system characteristics.
Recuva
This is the most famous and "untwisted" program for recovering a hard drive in Russian. With all its merits, the software has a free license and competent localization.
The functionality of the utility is extremely user friendly, and the basic tools are easy to learn even for beginners. The program for recovering deleted files from the Recuva hard drive will neatly sort everything out and display the list you need: if you need to reanimate, for example, photographs, you will see only JPG, RAW and other image formats, and not the whole bunch of data at once.
To facilitate the whole process, the utility provides a convenient and sensible recovery wizard that can be pre-configured for a beginner or a professional. If you need to reanimate all the data, then just start the robot with the command - restore everything.
Users generally respond positively to the capabilities of this program to recover files from a hard drive. Convenient functionality and smart master assistant will not let you get lost in the abundance of settings, and the speed of the utility will not let the user get bored. The only thing worth mentioning is that the software does its job well if, after accidentally deleting files, the hard drive was hardly used, that is, you need to restore the data, as they say, in hot pursuit.
Also, some users note that the program did not show itself so well with a common error - "The disk is not formatted." In this case, the chances of resuscitation of data are much lower. In all other respects, it is an intelligent, understandable and effective program for recovering files from a hard disk and other external media.
Disk drill
The first versions of the utility were developed exclusively for Mac OS, but the latest versions received support for the Windows and Android platforms, and with a free license. The program for recovering hard drives “Disk Drill” intelligently reanimates your data - photos, videos and other information from formatted hard drives and other drives.
In addition, the software received a user-friendly and maximally understandable interface, which any user familiar with the computer will understand. The utility also supports functionality that free applications are not burdened with, such as creating disk images and detailed work with them.
Users respond positively to the capabilities of this program for recovering hard drives and files, and both the owners of Mac and Windows. Many were pleased with the speed of the software and the user-friendly interface in many respects, while others were more than satisfied with the resuscitation qualities of the utility.
Recovery software
Unlike the two previous utilities, where all-in-one solutions are presented, the Recovery Software suite provides the user with six separate packages where each can be tested for a wide variety of resuscitation needs and purposes. Let's consider them in more detail.
RS File Repair
Sometimes, after using some third-party program for recovering hard drives and files, “beaten” images of your photos or videos remain. Here, as a rule, we are talking about shaded areas where obscure color blocks or a solid black mass are often found.
This utility is aimed at combating problems with text, image and video files. If you have such a nuisance, then the chance of resuscitating JPG, BMP, PNG, DOC and AVI files with this utility will increase significantly.
RS Photo Recovery
This program is aimed specifically at working with image files. The utility supports all well-known graphic formats from simple JPG to “Photoshop” PSD. After starting the recovery wizard, the program will automatically find all damaged / deleted image files and display a convenient list for further work.
After the search, the utility at the command of the user will restore either the marked or all the data found and provide a complete report on the work done. Here you do not need to be a dock and know all the intricacies of formats or types of images - competent automation will do everything by itself.
RS Data Recovery
This package includes two previous utilities and additional adaptation filters. That is, this software feels great with any drive interfaces for both hard drives and external media.
In addition, the package easily “digests” the compressed and encoded partitions of the drives, so this solution can be called the most universal and recommend to a wide range of users.
RS NTFS and FAT Recovery
These two utilities are aimed at specific (NTFS or FAT) recovery of hard drive bits and external media. Programs will be indispensable for resuscitation of the logical structure of drives and further work with damaged information.
RS Partition Recovery
This is a basic utility for resuscitating data after accidentally formatting a hard drive or some third-party external media. In addition, the program will help well if the partition structure of the hard drive or flash drive was incorrectly changed, correctly restoring it. The software works with all known types of file systems, so there should be no problems with adaptation.
Users respond very warmly to Recovery Software solutions and consider them almost ideal tools for solving data recovery problems. Naturally, they have shortcomings, but no critical comments were noted.