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We opened Recovery Review to help general consumer better understand the realities of the modern market of data recovery. Our strong emphasis to the go-it-yourself type of products makes reviewing data recovery software a natural choice. We carefully select only the best data recovery tools for your consideration, making unbiased reviews for every worthy product. A variety of different undelete, unerase, and unformat tools have passed through our hands. We do our best to give you a weighed independent opinion on the modern data repair utilities. Please feel free to download and use the reviewed tools.

There are several types of data recovery products depending on your situation.

  • Undelete and unerase utilities recover accidentally deleted files from your disks without much complication. In this category, we reviewed and compared a few commercial and freeware tools. You'll certainly find the right type of product if you're looking for a tool to quickly restore a few files.
  • Hard disk and partition recovery tool recover lost partitions and corrupted hard drives, repair accidentally formatted volumes and fix broken file systems. If you are looking for something to fix FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux ext2fs or MacOS logical disks, look no further!
  • Removable media recovery tools can restore, fix and repair data on corrupted USB flash sticks, diskettes, ZIP drives, digital cameras and the many available memory cards such as SD, Mini-SD, MicroSD, MMC, RS-MMC and such. This category also lists the recovery tools for portable MP3 and video players such as iPod, iRiver, and Zune.
  • CD and DVD recovery tools recover data from optical media with accidentally terminated sessions, burning errors or wrong disk parameters.
  • Password recovery tools give access to password-protected documents, including ZIP, MS Office, Word, Excel, Access, and Adobe PDF.
  • Database recovery and repair software to fix corrupted MS Access and FoxPro DBF databases.
  • Tools for email repair help you fix corrupted mailboxes and recover lost email if you are using Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, The Bat!, or the newest Vista Windows Mail.
  • Everything else includes other useful tools that are somehow related to data recovery, including secure delete tools, data wipers and backup software.

We are striving to keep our site up-to-date, searching and reviewing new products daily. If you developed a new data recovery product, we'd be happy to review your software. Just let us know about your product by using the PAD submission form.


[DiskInternals Partition Recovery 2.5]  Editor's pick 

DiskInternals Partition Recovery can recover formatted, corrupted or deleted partitions. Following file systems are supported: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, NTFS4 and NTFS5. No files will be lost from now on.
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DiskInternals Partition Recovery 2.5

[NTFS Data Recovery 4.1.1.0]  User choice 

NTFS Data Recovery does what its name says – it recovers data from NTFS partitions. Even if your system fails to start, NTFS Data Recovery comes to the rescue, restoring every file lost on your HDD.
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NTFS Data Recovery 4.1.1.0

[Handy Recovery 4.0]  User choice 

Have you deleted important files that you need right now? Handy Recovery is the program that can recover them fast and easy. It can restore deleted files and data from formatted or corrupted partitions in various file systems: FAT, NTFS and others.
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Handy Recovery 4.0

[DiskInternals Mail Recovery 1.2]  Best value 

Recover and repair deleted or corrupted Outlook Express databases and Vista Windows Mail messages. Even if your email is completely lost, DiskInternals Mail Recovery scans the entire hard disk, locates and recovers the deleted email.
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DiskInternals Mail Recovery 1.2

[DiskInternals Flash Recovery 2.6]  User choice 

DiskInternals Flash Recovery is the “first-aid” kit for every digital photographer. It recovers deleted photographs, corrupted and formatted memory cards. The interface is simple and easy-to-use even for a beginner PC user.
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DiskInternals Flash Recovery 2.6

[DiskInternals Office Recovery 1.6]  Editor's pick 

Recover latest versions of deleted documents even after a hard drive failure. Unlike general-use undelete and data recovery tools, DiskInternals Office Recovery benefits from being designed to handle documents stored in Microsoft Office format.
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DiskInternals Office Recovery 1.6

[DiskInternals Uneraser 3.7]  Best value 

If you want a fast and easy uneraser then you came to the right place – DiskInternals Uneraser can recover all your precious files in a matter of seconds! No need to investigate the labyrinths of complicated software – a simple and intuitive interface of DiskInternals Uneraser will guide you through the recovery process, so you can restore any type of data from your hard-drive, memory cards, flash USB sticks, camera or other storage media.
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DiskInternals Uneraser 3.7

[DiskInternals Raid Recovery 1.0]  Editor's pick 

Recover corrupted RAID arrays in a fully automatic mode. Raid Recovery is the first tool to automatically detect the type of the original RAID array while still allowing for fully manual operation for all types of hardware, native, or software arrays
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DiskInternals Raid Recovery 1.0

[HDD Recovery Pro 1.0.1]  Editor's pick 

Recover data after HDD failure with HDD Recovery Pro. It will easily recover files or folders after deletion, accidental format, or hard drive malfunction. The process is fully automated and doesn’t require any specific recovery related knowledge.
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HDD Recovery Pro 1.0.1

[SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor 1.8]  Editor's pick 

With SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor you can recover files and folders from lost or corrupted FAT and NTFS partitions and restore MFT and MBR records if your hard drive fails. The intuitive interface will assist you with the recovery process so you could succeed even without having any recovery oriented skills.
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SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor 1.8

[Backup Platinum 4.0]  Editor's pick 

We can’t imagine modern technological era without data backup. If you care about your data – then backup is absolutely obligatory! Backup Platinum can provide you with all the range of necessary tools for secure, fast and reliable backup. It uses 128-bit Blowfish encryption and compression algorithms keeping your backups secure and small.
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Backup Platinum 4.0

[DiskInternals CD and DVD Recovery 3.0]  Editor's pick 

If you have a bad CD or DVD that you can’t read then DiskInternals CD and DVD Recovery is the solution. It recovers inaccessible files from disk by intelligently skipping bad sectors and reading all the data that it can. The trial version can recover files up to 64KBytes for free.
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DiskInternals CD and DVD Recovery 3.0

[The Undelete Data Recovery Software 6.1.1.0]  Editor's pick 

The Undelete Data Recovery Software can recover all types of files. No matter what was the reason of data loss: hardware malfunction, power cutoff, virus attack, program failure or human fault – the Undelete Data Recovery Software can recover lost or accidentally deleted files. Give it a try!
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The Undelete Data Recovery Software 6.1.1.0

[DiskInternals NTFS Recovery 2.7]  Best value 

NTFS is an advanced disk formatting used by XP and other modern OS'es. DiskInternals NTFS Recovery is a fully automatic tool that utilizes NTFS features allowing you to recover files from disk volumes in case they were damaged
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DiskInternals NTFS Recovery 2.7

[SoftAmbulance 4 Outlook Express 1.25]  Editor's pick 

ave you ever lost an important letter? Or even worse, have you lost the entire e-mail message database? If you use Microsoft Outlook Express, then you should not worry about your messages – with the help of SoftAmbulance 4 Outlook Express you could recover all your lost correspondence. The application will scan .DBX files (message database files of Outlook Express) and recover all the messages from there. SoftAmbulance can recover accidentally deleted emails and messages from damaged or corrupted .DBX databases. It can extract attachments and export messages to standard EML format. The application works fine with files larger than 2 GB and has a friendly easy-to-use interface.
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SoftAmbulance 4 Outlook Express 1.25

[SoftAmbulance Photo Undelete 1.7]  Editor's pick 

Recovering photographic data was made easy with SoftAmbulance Photo Undelete! Thanks to the original algorithm of SoftAmbulance, now you can recover photos in a matter of seconds. Direct recovery from any digital camera, flash drives, hard drives, support of professional RAW formats, and many more - everything you need is in one easy-to-use application.
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SoftAmbulance Photo Undelete 1.7

[iRecover 2]  

Have you ever need to recover useful information from a malfunctioned drive? iRecover can recover files from partitions formatted to standard FAT, FAT32, NTFS file systems and also Linux Ext2 file system, which is a big advantage. It is also possible to recover RAID 0 + 5 drive array. And there is a digital image recovery mode which is absolutely freeware!
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iRecover 2

[Excel Password Recovery Wizard 2.0.2]  

Have you ever forgotten the password for a very important Excel document that you need right now? Then you just need to use Excel Password Recovery Wizard – an instant password recovery solution. There are several recovery methods available, such as Brute Force, Smart Search and a dictionary-based attack. You can use any method or a combination of them. And if you don’t want to know anything about those methods there is a single-click solution – it will recovery your Excel password at the press of a button. 100% success rate!
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Excel Password Recovery Wizard 2.0.2

[CD/DVD Data Recovery 1.0.921]  

Repair data from damaged, scratched and unreadable discs with CD/DVD Data Recovery. If you have some important files on a damaged CD/DVD that don’t copy in an ordinary way, then you must try CD/DVD Data Recovery – it will scan disk sectors and try to copy all recoverable information to your hard disk. It works best with text documents and multimedia data, like audio, video and images. The program can recover files from discs with ISO9660 and UDF file systems.
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CD/DVD Data Recovery 1.0.921

[iUnformat 2]  

Easy recovery of files lost after accidental format of the hard drive is provided by iUnformat 2. The application was designed to find and restore files from hard drives after formatting or file system corruption. iUnformat scans each sector of the selected drive, bringing all your files back to life.
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iUnformat 2

[Acronis True Image Server for Windows 9.1]  

With Acronis True Image Server you can be sure that your backup system works seamlessly. The application can make backups without interrupting critical processes in your system. It can make a full system restore, a bare-metal restore, or restore just individual files and folders. Acronis True Image Server can create bootable recovery media for a fast and easy recovery process. With this application you can bring your system up in minutes!
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Acronis True Image Server for Windows 9.1

[EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 3.0]  

Recover files after deletion, file system corruption, virus attacks or power failures with EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard. It supports different file systems (FAT12, FAT16, VFAT, FAT32, NTFS/NTFS5) and many medium types (HDD, Floppy drives, USB Flash, memory cards, digital cameras and players).
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EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 3.0
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