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What's the best data recovery software that's free?

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I am currently recovering my flash drive with Stellar Data Recovery. Found it lying around the closet and it was unusable because it was write protected, can't even format it. So I recovered it with said software. Since I'm new to data recovery, what data recovery software do you recommend? It is much preferred if it is free.

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6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what filesystem?

 

Make a image of it first with ddrescue.

 

Try using something like photorec.

Thank you! I will try to do that when my software didn't fully recover my media files.

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Just now, TechyWinkie said:

Thank you! I will try to do that when my software didn't fully recover my media files.

Yea see how much you can get in that image. Might be able to mount if its just read only, or fix the filesystem/partition table. Might have to go file hunting though.

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea see how much you can get in that image. Might be able to mount if its just read only, or fix the filesystem/partition table. Might have to go file hunting though.

I recently did that, so I'm making a folder to put all the files I scavenged in one place. 

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5 minutes ago, TechyWinkie said:

I recently did that, so I'm making a folder to put all the files I scavenged in one place. 

how much data was ddrescue able to show? Can you show the output?

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14 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

how much data was ddrescue able to show? Can you show the output?

Unfortunately, didn't use ddrescue. Still used Stellar Data Recovery to save time and it already started recovering. The output I cannot show because it's mostly family photos I gout out of it. Also a powerpoint that doesn't even read but, eh I don't really care about school projects. What I'm concerned about is the raw footage from my trip which wasn't recovered due to the 1 GB limit. If this fails, I will try ddrescue.

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25 minutes ago, TechyWinkie said:

Unfortunately, didn't use ddrescue. Still used Stellar Data Recovery to save time and it already started recovering. The output I cannot show because it's mostly family photos I gout out of it. Also a powerpoint that doesn't even read but, eh I don't really care about school projects. What I'm concerned about is the raw footage from my trip which wasn't recovered due to the 1 GB limit. If this fails, I will try ddrescue.

Normaly use ddrescue first to make the image. Often when drives are in this state will die soon, so you want to make the image, then run recovery tools on the image, not the drive.

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Recuva's pretty good.

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EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free (it have limitation, of how much you can recover, but is easy and reliable)

   
 
 
 
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