- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
Overall Product Rating: 5.2
A program with a standard wizard interface, the second-bestset of supported file systems, the second-best set of file recovery features, and the sixth-best file recovery performance.
Its strong points include: the second-best localization (18 interface languages supported), second-best file previewer, and excellent file recovery features like disk imaging, file search/mark capabilities, and detailed operation logging. Moreover, this is the second program in our tests that has S.M.A.R.T. monitoring
The program won the sixth place in recovery performance, although it showed one of the best results for deleted partitions.
Its weak point is: poor results with damaged partition recovery.
Interface and Features
Logging: 4.5Compare
The log is automatically saved to the dd.log file. It can be viewed through the Disk Drill for Windows logs command.
File recovery parameters: 4.5Compare
Recovers filenames and the folder structure. It’s possible to open the folder with recovered files upon completion of the recovery process.
Deep analysis of disks (disk scan): 5.0Compare
Scan types can be selected: Quick Scan, Deep Scan, Search for lost partitions, Allocate existing data, Undelete protected data, and All recovery methods. While scanning, the program starts showing the number and types for found files in the Pictures, Video, Audio, Documents, and Archives folders. Scan can be stopped and then resumed. Scan results can be connected as a disk (the Show scan results in Explorer command). Bad sectors are shown in the program log.
File recovery using file signatures (raw file recovery): 4.5Compare
Supports raw file recovery with a pre-defined file signature set. File types to search for cannot be selected. Found files appear in the Found files and Reconstructed / Reconstructed labeled sections.
Disk imaging and copying: 5.0Compare
A drive backup can be created as a dmg file. The dmg file format is native to Mac computers and cannot be connected to Windows systems without third-party software. The program can also create byte-to-byte images. Images can be opened in the program to recover files from such images. Bad sectors are shown in the program log.
File search, mark for recovery, sorting: 5.0Compare
Manual marking for recovery, sorting by clicking column names and Ascending / Descending. Search parameters: individual file search, file mask search, size search. Files can be filtered by their size (by selecting fixed sizes 0 KB, 128 KB, 512 KB, 1 MB, etc ,) by deleted within the last (any time, 1 day, 3 day, etc.), by file types: All files, Pictures, Video, etc. The Recover All button marks all files. Also files can be sorted by Files, Files and icons, Folders, Folders and icons. A new filter parameter has been added: Recovery chances (High, Average, Low, Unknown).
S.M.A.R.T. : 5.5Compare
Disk health status is shown using initial S.M.A.R.T. disk health monitoring. Settings of S.M.A.R.T. attribute display can be changed, disk temperature can be shown, and there’s the Show status in system tray option.
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Languages supported: 18 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Malay, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Portuguese/Brazilian), Japanese, traditional and simplified Chinese, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Korean, Arabian, Turkish.
Language management: The program needs to restart to change the interface language.
Recognized all tested localized characters in file and folder names.
: 5.0Compare
File preview. Unrestricted file recovery for files up to 0.5 GB total in the free version. No time limit for the demo mode.
: 5.5Compare
Files can be previewed in the right pane or in a separate window. The built-in previewer can show Microsoft Office (txt, odx, odt, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx) documents, graphic and video files. No hexadecimal viewer.
File recovery performance
Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (FAT32 file system): 3.5Compare
After Quick Scan: Only files from the root folder were found in their original place and successfully recovered. Two jpg files had the _ character at the beginning of their names.
After All recovery methods: All files and folders were found in their original places, except files from the root folder. Their names were correct except that some files had the _ character at the beginning of their names. Those files could not be recovered.
The Found files section contained files from the root folder. They were successfully recovered.
Raw files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed Labeled sections. Most of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, most files were recovered as raw files, that is, without their names. The original folder structure was not recovered at all.
Files that could not be recovered: 3 mts, 12 mp3, 2 xls files.
Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (NTFS file system): 5.5Compare
After Quick Scan All files and the entire original folder structure were found in their original places and successfully recovered.
Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (exFAT file system): 6.0Compare
After Quick Scan All files and the entire original folder structure were found in their original places and successfully recovered.
Emptied Recycle Bin (NTFS file system): 5.0Compare
After Quick Scan : One subfolder with its content was found in its original place, all with correct names. All files were successfully recovered. The rest of the original folders and files from the root folder were found in the Trash folder. Their names were correct, and all of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files were successfully recovered, but the original folder structure was recovered only partially.
Emptied Recycle Bin (exFAT file system): 6.0Compare
After Quick Scan: All files and the entire original folder structure were found in their original places and successfully recovered.
Reformatted disk (NTFS to NTFS): 3.5Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After All Recovery Methods: Some remnants of the original folder structure were found in the Trash Bin. Their folders and files were successfully recovered. Many files were found as raw files in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections. Most of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, most files were recovered as raw files; only small parts of the previous folder structure were recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 xls, 12 mp3 files.
Reformatted disk (exFAT to exFAT): 5.0Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After All recovery methods: An exFAT partition was found. All folders from the root folder were found in the Orphans sections, but with incorrect names. Those folders contained their respective subfolders and files with correct names. All those files and subfolders were successfully recovered. 2 jpg and pdf files from the root folder were found in the Reconstructed labeled sections as raw files. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, almost all files and most of the original folder structure were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 1 avi file.
Reformatted disk (NTFS to exFAT): 6.0Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found
After All recovery methods: An NTFS was found. It contained all files and folders with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Reformatted disk (FAT32 to FAT32): 5.5Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After All Recovery Methods: All files and folders with correct names were found in the Orphan/Lost6 section, except the root folder. All found folders and files were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Reformatted disk (exFAT to NTFS): 5.5Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found
After All recovery methods: An exFAT partition was found. It contained all files and folders with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Damaged partition (NTFS): 2.5Compare
After All recovery methods: Only some raw files were found in the Reconstructed labeled sections. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, all found files were recovered as raw files; the previous folder structure was not recovered at all.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 xls, 2 mts, 12 mp3 files.
Damaged partition (exFAT): 5.5Compare
Upon program startup, the EXFAT partition was immediately found.
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After All recovery methods of this partition: All files and folders were found with correct names on the EXFAT partition and successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Damaged partition (FAT32): 5.5Compare
Immediately found an FAT32 partition.
After All Recovery Methods for the found partition: All files and folders were found with correct names and successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Damaged partition (exFAT – memory card): 5.5Compare
An ExFAT partition of the correct size was immediately found.
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Deep Scan: All files and folders with correct names were found in the Current files section and successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Deleted partition (NTFS): 6.0Compare
After All recovery methods: 1 Lost partition was found after a fast analysis.
After Quick scan of the found partition: All folders and files were found with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Deleted partition (exFAT): 6.0Compare
After All Recovery Methods: An EXFAT partition was found with all folders and files with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Deleted partition (FAT32): 6.0Compare
After All Recovery Methods: A FAT32 partition was found with all folders and files with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Deleted partition (exFAT – memory card): 5.5Compare
After Search for Lost Partitions: Nothing was found.
After All recovery methods: All files and folders with correct names were found in the EXFAT partitions. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Overall Product Rating: 4.9
The program has a good basic wizard interface. It showed the second-highest score for its feature set and the sixth-highest score for recovery performance. The program supported a large set of file systems to recover files from Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.
Its strong points include: soft demo limitations (0.5 GB of free recovery), good localization support (18 interface languages), very good file search and mark capabilities, disk imaging, logging, and S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.
Its weak points include: relatively poor file recovery performance, especially for file recovery from damaged partitions.
Interface and Features
Logging: 4.5Compare
The log is automatically saved to the dd.log file. It can be viewed through the Disk Drill logs command.
File recovery parameters: 4.0Compare
Recovers filenames and the folder structure. It’s possible to open the folder with recovered files upon completion of the recovery process.
File recovery using file signatures (raw file recovery): 4.5Compare
Supports raw file recovery with a pre-defined file signature set. File types to search for cannot be selected. Found files appear in the Found files and Reconstructed / Reconstructed labeled sections.
Disk imaging and copying: 5.0Compare
A drive backup can be created as a dmg file. It can be opened in the program to recover files from such images. The dmg file format is native to Mac computers and cannot be connected to Windows systems without third-party software.
File search, mark for recovery, sorting: 5.0Compare
Manual marking for recovery, sorting by clicking column names and Ascending / Descending. Search parameters: individual file search, file mask search, size search. Files can be filtered by their size (by selecting fixed sizes 0 KB, 128 KB, 512 KB, 1 MB, etc ,) by deleted within the last (any time, 1 day, 3 day, etc.), by file types: All files, Pictures, Video, etc. The Recover All button marks all files. Also files can be sorted by Files, Files and icons, Folders, Folders and icons.
Deep analysis of disks (disk scan): 5.0Compare
Scan types can be selected: Quick Scan, Deep Scan, Search for lost partitions, Allocate existing data, Undelete protected data, and All recovery methods. While scanning, the program starts showing the number and types for found files in the Pictures, Video, Audio, Documents, and Archives folders. Scan can be stopped and then resumed. Scan results can be connected as a disk (the Show scan results in Explorer command).
: 5.8Compare
Languages supported: 18 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Malay, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Portuguese/Brazilian), Japanese, traditional and simplified Chinese, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Korean, Arabian, Turkish.
Language management: The program needs to restart to change the interface language.
Recognized all tested localized characters in file and folder names.
: 5.0Compare
File preview. Unrestricted file recovery for files up to 0.5 GB total in the free version. No time limit for the demo mode.
: 4.5Compare
Files can be previewed in the right pane or in a separate window. There’s a hexadecimal viewer in the program that can be started in a separate window. The built-in previewer can show Microsoft Office (txt, odx, odt, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx) documents, graphic and video files.
File recovery performance
Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (NTFS file system): 5.0Compare
After Quick Scan: All files, except 1 mkv file were found in their original locations with correct file and folder names. The found files were successfully recovered.
After Disk Analysis and Scan: The mkv file was found in the Reconstructed section as a raw file.
Overall, the entire folder structure and all files were successfully recovered, with one as a raw file.
Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (FAT32 file system): 4.0Compare
After Disk Scan: Only files from the root folder were found in their original place, but most were damaged. Only 1 avi file from the root folder was successfully recovered. Other files/folders were found in the Orphan/Lost1xxxxx sections, but those files appeared damaged.
All files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed Labeled sections as raw files. Most of those files were successfully recovered.
Overall, most files were recovered as raw files, although the original folder structure was not.
Files that could not be recovered: 1 m4v, 4 mts, 12 mp3 files.
Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (exFAT file system): 6.0Compare
After Quick Scan: All files and folders were successfully recovered with correct original names. Deep Scan was not required.
Emptied Recycle Bin (exFAT file system): 4.5Compare
Disk mounting is required.
After Quick Scan: All files and folders, except 4 mts files, were found in their original places with correct names.
After Disk Analysis and Scan: Only 2 mts files were found as m2ts raw files. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, the entire folder structure and all but two files were successfully recovered: 2 mts files as raw files, that is, without their original names and other attributes.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 mts files.
Emptied Recycle Bin (NTFS file system): 5.0Compare
After Quick Scan: Only one folder (Video) was discovered in its correct place, with its correct content, except two files: 1 avi and 1 mkv. Files from the root folder and the other folders (with incorrect names) from the root folder were found in the Recycle Bin. Those found folders contained their respective files and folders, all with correct names. All files were successfully recovered.
After Disk Analysis and Scan: The 1 mkv and 1 avi files were found among raw files in the Reconstructed section and successfully recovered.
Overall, all files were successfully recovered, with two files as raw files. Only a small part of the initial folder structure was successfully recovered.
Reformatted disk (NTFS to NTFS): 3.5Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Disk Analysis and Scan: Only some raw files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, all found files were recovered as raw files; the previous folder structure was not recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 3 mts, 12 mp3 files.
Reformatted disk (exFAT to exFAT): 6.0Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Disk Analysis and Scan: An exFAT partition was found. All folders and subfolders from the root folder, and their corresponding files, with correct names were found in the Orphans/Lost8 section on this partition. All files and folders were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Reformatted disk (NTFS to exFAT): 4.0Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Disk Analysis and Scan: Only raw files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections. All found files were successfully recovered.
Overall, found files were recovered as raw files. The previous folder structure was not recovered at all.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 mts, 12 mp3 files.
Reformatted disk (exFAT to NTFS): 3.5Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Disk Analysis and Scan: 4 folders of the Lost10842 were found in the Orphans sections. They contained files and subfolders from the original folders. Those files and folders were recovered, but many of them appeared broken. Only 1 doc, all mp3, 1 mpeg, and 4 mts files were successfully recovered. Other files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, most files were recovered, but the original folder structure was not.
Files that could not be recovered: 1 avi, 2 mts, 12 mp3 files.
Reformatted disk (FAT32 to FAT32): 6.0Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Deep Scan: All files and folders with correct names were found in the Orphan/Lost6 section. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Damaged partition (NTFS): 4.5Compare
After Disk Analysis and Scan: Only raw files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, most files were recovered as raw files, but the original folder structure was not.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 mts, 12 mp3 files.
Damaged partition (exFAT): 5.5Compare
Upon program startup, the EXFAT partition was immediately found.
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After All recovery methods of this partition: Nothing was found.
After All recovery methods of the entire disk: All files and folders were found with correct names on the EXFAT partition and successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Damaged partition (FAT32): 6.0Compare
After Disk Analysis and Scan: Only 4 files from the root folder were found. They were successfully recovered.
After Deep Scan of the entire disk: All files and folders were found with correct names and successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Damaged partition (exFAT – memory card): 2.5Compare
After All recovery methods for the partition: Nothing was found.
After All recovery methods for the memory card: All files and folders with correct names were found on the EXFAT partition. Only some of them were successfully recovered. The rest of the files were found as raw files in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, only few files were successfully recovered, most as raw files, and the original folder structure was recovered.
Deleted partition (NTFS): 6.0Compare
After Search for Lost Partition: An NTFS partition was found.
After Quick scan of the found partition; All folders and files were found with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Deleted partition (exFAT): 6.0Compare
After Deep Scan: An EXFAT partition was found with all folders and files with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Overall, all files and the original folder structure were recovered.
Deleted partition (FAT32): 5.0Compare
The program immediately found a FAT32 file system.
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Disk Analysis and Scan: The original folder with files and folders were found, 17 avi, flv, m4v, 2 mov files were missing. Sections with raw files (Reconstructed, Reconstructed labeled) didn’t contain those files. All found files were successfully recovered.
Overall, most files and the entire folder structure were recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 17 avi, flv, m4v, 2 mov files.
Deleted partition (exFAT – memory card): 5.0Compare
After Search for Lost Partition: Nothing was found.
After Disk Analysis and Scan: An exFAT partition was found with files and folders with correct names, but most of the files appeared damaged after recovery. Sections with raw files (Reconstructed, Reconstructed labeled) contained some other files. Most of the found files were successfully recovered.
Overall, most files and the entire folder structure were recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 mts, 12 mp3 files.
Overall Product Rating: 4.6
The program has a good wizard Interface, a good localization support, a good previewer, and unrestricted file recovery for files up to 0.5 GB total in the free version. The list of supported file systems includes almost all Windows (except ReFS). Linux’ Ext2/3/4 and Apple’s HFS+. It also supports raw file recovery. Program’s file search and mark capabilities are very good, and it also supports disk imaging, logging, and S.M.A.R.T. monitoring. The program’s file recovery performance is quite good (ranking fifth), especially for emptied Bin and deleted/damaged partitions.
Interface and Features
Deep analysis of disks (disk scan): 5.0Compare
Scan types can be selected: Quick Scan, Deep Scan, Search for lost partitions, Allocate existing data, Undelete protected data, and All recovery methods. While scanning, the program starts showing the number and types for found files in the Pictures, Video, Audio, Documents, and Archives folders. Scan can be stopped and then resumed. Scan results are saved automatically or manually, can later be loaded, and be connected as a disk (the Show scan results in Explorer command).
File recovery using file signatures (raw file recovery): 4.5Compare
We could not find this feature, but it looks like the program has it: some files with modified names can be found in the Found files, Reconstructed, and Found Labels sections.
Disk imaging and copying: 4.0Compare
A drive backup can be created as a dmg file. It can be opened in the program to recover files from such images. The dmg file format is native to Mac computers and cannot be connected to Windows systems without third-party software.
File search, mark for recovery, sorting: 5.0Compare
Manual marking for recovery, sorting by clicking column names and Ascending/Descanting. Search parameters: individual file search, file mask search, size search. Files can be filtered by their size (by selecting fixed sizes 0 KB, 128 KB, 512 KB, 1 MB, etc ,) by deleted within the last (any time, 1 day, 3 day, etc.), by file types: All files, Pictures, Video, etc. The Recover All button marks all files. There is an option Show hidden system files.
Logging: 4.5Compare
The log is automatically saved to the dd.log file. It can be viewed through the Disk Drill logs command.
: 4.3Compare
Languages supported: Only English.
Recognized all tested localized characters in file and folder names.
: 5.0Compare
File preview. Unrestricted file recovery for files up to 0.5 GB total in the free version. No time limit for the demo mode.
: 4.5Compare
Files can be previewed in the right pane or in a separate window. The built-in previewer can show Microsoft Office (odx, odt, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx) documents, txt, graphic and video files.
File recovery performance
Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (NTFS file system): 5.5Compare
After Quick Scan: All files, except 2 jpg and 1 avi files from the disk root folder, and the large mkv file, were found in their original locations with correct file and folder names. The found files were successfully recovered.
After Deep Scan: Those 1 mkv, 1 avi, 2 jpg files were found with incorrect names in the Reconstructed и Reconstructed labeled sections (raw files) and successfully recovered.
Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (exFAT file system): 5.5Compare
After Quick Scan: All files and folders were successfully recovered with correct original names, except 1 avi from the disk root folder.
After Deep Scan: The avi file could not be successfully recovered.
Files Deleted without Recycle Bin (FAT32 file system): 2.5Compare
After Deep Scan: The program found several folders like Orphan/Lost6/ Lost179701, Orphan/ Lost179701, etc. Some files had correct names, some incorrect, but all of them appeared broken.
Only some raw files with incorrect names could be found in the Reconstructed labeled/ Pictures/ jpg and Reconstructed labeled/ Pictures/ png. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, only some picture files could be successfully recovered: 87 jpg and 40 png.
Emptied Recycle Bin (exFAT file system): 6.0Compare
After Quick Scan: All files and folders were found in their original places with correct names. They were all successfully recovered.
Emptied Recycle Bin (NTFS file system): 4.0Compare
After Deleted Files Recovery: Three folders from the root were found with incorrect names in the Trash Bin. Those folders contained subfolders and files with correct filenames. Trash Bin contained the files from the root folder with incorrect fil names. All found files, except one jpg file, were successfully recovered. The Lost folder contained the rest of folders and files. Those files were successfully recovered. The folder structure was not fully recovered.
Reformatted disk (NTFS to NTFS): 3.5Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Deep Scan: Many raw files but no folders were found. Almost all were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 1 mov, 4 mts, 9 mp3.
Reformatted disk (exFAT to exFAT): 5.0Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Deep Scan: Four folders like Lost10842 were found in the Orphans section. They contained subfolders and files from the folders in the device root folder, all with correct names. They were successfully recovered.
Files from the device root folder were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections as raw files. They were successfully recovered, with one exception: 1 avi file was not found and could not be recovered.
Overall, the initial folder structure was recovered partially. All but one file was successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: one avi file.
Reformatted disk (NTFS to exFAT): 3.5Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing could be found.
After Deep Scan: Only raw files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections. Most of them could be successfully recovered. The initial folder structure was not recovered at all.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 mts and 10 mp3.
Reformatted disk (exFAT to NTFS): 4.5Compare
After Quick Scan: Nothing was found.
After Deep Scan: Four folders like Lost10842 were found in the Orphans section. They contained subfolders and files from the folders in the device root folder. Only some of them were successfully recovered. The rest appeared damaged after recovery.
Many files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections as raw files. They were successfully recovered, with one exception: 1 avi file was not found and could not be recovered.
Overall, the initial folder structure was recovered partially. All but one file was successfully recovered, but mostly as raw files.
Files that could not be recovered: one avi file.
Reformatted disk (FAT32 to FAT32): 4.5Compare
After Deep Scan: respective folders like Orphan/Lost/..../Folder Original Name. For example, if a file was in the Test_Files/ Photos/ Diving folder, it would be shown in the Orphan/ Orphan/ Orphan/ Lost6/ Photos/ Diving folder. All files were successfully recovered. The initial folder structure was recovered only partially.
Damaged partition (FAT32): 5.0Compare
After Deep Scan of the partition: Only 4 files with correct names from the device root folder and 4 mp3 files as raw files in the Reconstructed section were found. They were successfully recovered.
After Deep Scan of the entire memory card: All files and folders were found with correct names. They were successfully recovered.
Damaged partition (exFAT – memory card): 5.5Compare
After Deep Scan: All files and folders were found with correct names and successfully recovered.
Damaged partition (exFAT): 5.5Compare
After Deep Scan: An EXFAT partition was found with all files and folders with correct file names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Damaged partition (NTFS): 4.5Compare
After Deep Scan: Only raw files were found. They were successfully recovered.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 mts.
Deleted partition (NTFS): 6.0Compare
After Scan for lost partitions: A Lost partition 2 partition was found.
After Quick Scan of the found partition: All folders and files were found with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.
Deleted partition (exFAT): 4.0Compare
After Scan for lost partitions and Deep Scan: The EXFAT partition was found. It contained all folders and files with their correct names. But all files appeared damaged after recovery. Only one pdf file was successfully recovered.
Many files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections as raw files. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, the initial folder structure was recovered but without files. Some files were successfully recovered as raw files.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 mts, 10 mp3.
Deleted partition (FAT32): 6.0Compare
After Deep scan of the memory card: Two Lost partitions were found. The first one contained all files and folders with correct names. All of them were successfully recovered.
The second partition was empty.
Deleted partition (exFAT – memory card): 4.0Compare
After Scan for lost partitions and Deep Scan: All folders and files with their correct names were found. But all files appeared damaged after recovery. Only 3 pdf and one mpeg files was successfully recovered.
Many files were found in the Reconstructed and Reconstructed labeled sections as raw files. They were successfully recovered.
Overall, the initial folder structure was recovered but without files. Some files were successfully recovered as raw files.
Files that could not be recovered: 2 mts, 1 mp3.
