Commercial Data Recovery Software

Data recovery software can be distributed as freeware where you can use it at no cost or as commercial software where you have to pay for it. Free software does not mean that this is only some simple tool or is lacking important features. Also for commercial software there is no rule or guarantee that it will solve all your problems. There is a long list of  great free data recovery software and there are also many commercial tools that can do magic. Therefore it is a good idea to check free software first and then take a look at commercial solutions.

The price of data recovery software starts around $40 for smaller dedicated tools. The cost of the software is not always the reflection of what the software can do. So don’t look at the price tag before you check what the software can do. Here we present some popular commercial data recovery tools. Most provide some kind of trial period or demo mode where you can test features or examine supported recovery methods.

If you have lost some files then this is not the right moment to install any software. Before you do anything you should become familiar with the data recovery process, what is undelete, how it works, what are the limitations, how to preserve data, how to recover it, etc. Check free data recovery software tutorial first, the same approach is valid also for commercial recovery tools.

Finally, having a fancy and expensive data recovery software is not enough. To successfully recover data from broken hard drives you need knowledge, skills and experience. Software can help you to scan the disk and to put the pieces together. There is no software that can repair a damaged hard drive or failed memory card.

This is a Windows undelete software that you can use to undelete files from any Windows partition (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5). It has a simple user interface and supports most of file types used in Windows environment. Before you undelete any file you can check it in the preview window. NTFS undelete can also be used as digital image recovery software to recover images deleted from memory cards or digital camera.

This is a universal and lightweight maintenance and hard drive data recovery software. You run it from DOS (it can create a bootable floppy or USB flash disk), it can scan disk data surface for possible problems and if necessary recover data from sectors with errors. If after many attempts the data can still not be read SpinRite will use proprietary algorithm to statistically determine right data. SpinRite not only prevents and predicts hard drive crashes, it is also a powerful data recovery software.