File Recovery

Function definition: Tools that support the recovery of data from damaged or corrupted storage devices such as disks.

Lifecycle stage: Preservation Action

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
Dd rescue	dd_rescue is suitable for rescuing data from a medium with errors, i.
Emailchemy	Converts proprietary emails to standard portable formats
Foremost	Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.
Fq	Tool, language and decoders for working with binary data.
GetDataBack	GetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a system crash, files were lost due to a software failure, files were accidentally deleted.
Micr'Olonys	Micr’Olonys is the software solution for long-term passive digital archiving on film and paper.
Ontrack EasyRecovery	Ontrack EasyRecovery software products offer home users or businesses complete solutions for their data recovery, file repair and disk diagnostic needs.
PhotoRec	PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory.
PhotoRescue	PhotoRescue is a picture and data recovery solution for digital film - sd cards, compact flash, memory sticks, microdrive, etc.
Recovery is Possible	Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or USB boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system.
Restorer Ultimate	Restorer Ultimate offers data recovery software.
Safecopy	low level data recovery tool
SalvageData Recovery	SalvageData Recovery software tools and products are designed to empower both IT professionals and average personal computer users with all the functionalities and features needed to successfully salvage and recover data files from any kind of logical data loss situation.
SpinRite	SpinRite is a magnetic storage data recovery, repair, and maintenance utility.
TestDisk	TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software that was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table).
Unrm	unrm is a small shell utility that can, under some circumstances, recover almost 99% of your erased data (similar to DOS's undelete).
Unstoppable Copier	Attempts to recover every readable piece of a file and puts the pieces together.
ZAR (Zero Assumption Recovery)	ZAR is Windows data recovery software.