This type of data recovery tools can typically repair damaged hard drives, fixing corrupted partitions and unformatting formatted disks. The unformatters apply a wide variety of methods to restore the drive to its original state, and can often succeed even if the drive has been re-partitioned and re-formatted with a different file system. There are different types of disk recovery tools, however. There are recovery tools dedicated to either FAT or NTFS, and there are those that support both. Some unformatters perform as Scandisk on steroids, concentrating their efforts on recovering the damaged system structures and caring little about the files and data stored there. Other tools offer some way to back up your files before attempting to fix the damaged drive. The best unformatters apply powerful algorithms to locate and recover user data before attempting to repair the damage. Our comprehensive, first-hand reviews will point out the differences, telling you exactly what unformat products are worth your attention.
Unformat tools
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.
R-Linux is a data recovery and undelete tool for Ext2FS (Linux) file system. File recovery after power failure, system crash, virus infection or partition with the files was reformatted, even for different file system.
R-Studio is comprehensive data recovery tool renowned for its ability to recover mission-critical data lost to viruses, malicious attacks, and hardware failures or operating system crashes. Functions on local and network disks.
Hard Drive Mechanic - Data Recovery, Hard Drive Repair and Diagnostics software. THE HARD DRIVE MECHANIC GOLD SPECIAL EDITION is the ONLY Hard Drive Recovery Software designed so anyone can get their PC Hard Drive back up and running in minutes!
Active Partition Recovery is compact DOS software tool that helps to recover (undelete) deleted partition and logical disks on PC hard disk drives.
Active@ File Recovery for Windows enables you to find, review and recover lost or deleted files. It scans computer hard drives in a matter of minutes and displays all recoverable files.
Advanced EFS Data Recovery recover/decrypt files encrypted on NTFS (EFS) partitions created in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, even in a case when the system is not bootable and so you cannot log on, and/or some encryption keys have been tampered.
Advanced NTFS Recovery is a repair tool that revives partitions and drives from failures. It scans drives and selects the most effective solution in every given case. Its customary explorer-like interface and full automation ensure top performance
ZAR is a comprehensive data recovery solution for FAT and NTFS volumes, including those on hardware RAID0/RAID5. ZAR supports national file names. Includes digital picture retrieval feature and an automatic scan for partitioning info.
Product Highlight
Top10 downloads
- DiskInternals Partition Recovery 2.5
- NTFS Data Recovery 4.1.1.0
- DiskInternals Flash Recovery 2.6
- Handy Recovery 4.0
- DiskInternals Uneraser 3.7
- HDD Recovery Pro 2.3
- The Undelete Data Recovery Software 6.1.1.0
- DiskInternals CD and DVD Recovery 3.0
- EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6
- DiskInternals NTFS Recovery 2.7
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