Looking for the proper data recovery software? When you come into this category, you may have questions about How to select a good and right data recovery program to help to get back the valuable data? Any good freeware? Freeware or Shareware? Which one is exactly right for me not waste a penny when I need to purchase one?

We know most of our customers came here shopping with these questions. So instead of costing much time on browsing products description, please take a bit time to follow our guide, and you can easily reach your target software.

All the products in this category are classified into the specified sub-category. At sub-category page,
1. We list all the best freeware
2. We list all the popular shareware
3. Freeware vs. shareware
4. We write some useful data recovery & repair tips hoping that will be helpful in your recovery process

Important Notices 1. There are some overlap features between General Data Recovery Software and Specialized File Recovery Software. For the different data lost cases, you may try different software to select a suitable one before you make a final decision
2. The cheapest way to recover/repair data is to use the software, but if you could not find back your data after trying lots of software, the only one last way for you is to find a local professional data recovery service

Sub-Category

Applies to the case of data file lost/deleted due to the system crashes, storage media formatting, virus infection, damaged disks or human errors

Pros:
Data recovery is not limited by the lost file formats, and any data files lost due to the reasons we list above can be recovered
Cons:
Lower recovery success rate than Specialized File Recovery Software for some specified files like MS Office files and photos, and unable to repair damaged/corrupt files

Note:
Generally, you just need to choose software based on the platform or storage media where the lost/deleted files once located, or you can choose according to the lost file format in some cases

General Data Recovery Software

BY PLATFORM

Windows Data RecoveryMac Data RecoveryLinux Data RecoveryUNIX Data RecoveryNovell Data Recovery

BY STORAGE MEDIA

iPhone/iPad/iPod RecoveryAndroid Device RecoveryCD/DVD RecoveryRAID RecoverySSD Data RecoveryTape RecoveryVirtual Disk Data Recovery

BY FILE SYSTEM

Apple HFS RecoveryFAT/NTFS RecoveryExt2/Ext3/Ext4 RecoveryJFS RecoveryReiserFS RecoveryUFS RecoveryXFS Recovery

This kind of recovery software is designed for the specified file type, and applies to the same cases as General Data Recovery Software, can retrieve lost/deleted data files due to the system crashes, storage media formatting, virus infection, damaged disks or human errors

Pros:
Higher recovery success rate than General Data Recovery Software for specified file types
Cons:
Only applies to the single specified file type

Note:
Not all the data file recovery requires the professional recovery software. If you do not find a specified file recovery tool in this category, that means General Data Recovery Software is sufficient to recover your data files

Specialized File Recovery Software

MULTIMEDIA RECOVERY

Photo & Memory Card Recovery

Note: This type of recovery software is often named as "Photo Recovery", but most of it is also capable of recovering videos, music, and other multimedia files