

Despite their claims that it can recover data in the case of damaged file system or formatting, it is terrible at that. Recuva - Un-delete tool, for un-deleting files removed from the operating system's delete function.Everything it can do can be done by the free trial of DMDE but a million times better and more user friendly. Testdisk - partition manipulation tool ONLY.Just okay - a mix of many tools under the hood, which is not really a good thing. Gparted - partition manipulation tool.

The resultant clone will still need recovery software run against it in most cases as logical damage resulting from failure is cloned with the data Ddrescue - cloning tool designed to clone failing drives.Tools that assist in data recovery that are not file recovery tools Stellar (anything from them except photo repair tool).Ontrack Easyrecovery (re-branded Stellar).Disk Drill (garbage EXCEPT with damaged Time Machine backups).

