Best Free Data Recovery Software That Works

[@Britec09]

Let me know in comments below if you recovered your data?

[@blackitech8783]

I've used GetDataBack Pro according to your suggestion, and it has done good job.

[@georgeh9967]

yes, it was a tv serial. video and audio fine , but lost the headers for the episode numbers

[@jawadulhassan937]

does it recover with file and directory structure too ? I need to recover 300gb worth of my web development projects data. that is like complete folders in folders with coding files.

[@woihoi4901]

How to scan sd card by this software? I can't find it

[@braFRANK]

What if the data is overwritten

[@ToadeRTroniX]

I've been using testdisk for years. One memorable time was when a customer brought in a camera with an SD card that had a corrupt partition. I was able to recover the last pictures taken of her grandmother.

[@angelolima4811]

How about hard drives, or certain files like vhdx file or restore point

[@JayJay-wv1vx]

I have Seagate external 1T drive that suddenly says it's a raw drive and need to format it to use it BUT i have 300GB worth of data on it. Which software do you recommend for picture and video files for my situation of raw drive message?

[@bohdandower5058]

Lifesaver!!! Love the simplicity of this software. Worked perfect to recover deleted .MOV files from my cameras SD Card

[@Nonya704]

THIS WORKS! recovered my microsd card with 116 gb of memories

[@liwenz2668]

You really SAVED my life ! I was watching tutorials the whole day trying to restore my pictures back and I was about to format my SD card not knowing if i was going to be able to restore my pictures until i got to find your video ! Just THANK YOU you saved 10 years of my family's pictures

[@JayJay-wv1vx]

I have Seagate external 1T drive that suddenly says it's a raw drive and need to format it to use it BUT i have 300GB worth of data on it. Which software do you recommend for picture and video files for my situation of raw drive message?

[@enjoyyoursleep1]

When I end up stuck in the year 2000 with some computer issue, Your channel always gets me back to the future! Thanks for all your awesome content!

[@eetusva7521]

I have a corrupted memory card that I've been trying to recover photos from for years, thanks for this! This is how I recovered everything

[@DrTripleA]

You are a lifesaver!!! imagine I finished a shoot for a celebrity and his family and only to discover the memory card is corrupt..... God knows have tried all means till I came across your channel. God bless you real good man

[@lobanrahmantonoy4130]

I have recovered photos and videos I accidentally deleted from my SD card. I am happy getting my photos back.

[@reazahmed7076]

Fantastic video, I have been trying in many days but at the end, it saved me a lot of time and money. Thanks Britec for sharing !

[@piotrbiedowicz1602]

I learn a lot from your videos. Thank you for your work.

[@Britec09]

Glad to hear that!

[@GoferZeroSix]

Can't thank you enough. Spent hours installing software that claimed it was free only to find out they charge. For you, I liked, subbed and shared and for the software creator, I will donate some money which is the first time I've actually ever donated for freeware software. That is how much I appreciate no being raked over the coals to recover important files. My issue was copying over drone video files from an aerial shoot and halfway through the copy from a brand new SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GB micro SD card to my computer, I started getting errors saying files weren't there. So I guess the partition somehow got corrupted. I've never seen that before so is that a bad micro SD card or just an rare anomaly?

[@marianabrederode2450]

can you share the software through a link?

[@GoferZeroSix]

@@marianabrederode2450 Ended up not working for me. It found the files but the they we're corrupt and not viewable.

[@edpritchard2318]

thankyou sir I just recovered 15 years of photos for free...........

[@poppett.m4481]

This program honestly is bloody fantastic!! Little hack for anyone trying to recover footage from a dvr - go into the file type selection bit and make sure "dovecot" is selected, the files can be converted in VLC after recovery to get the video to playback as normal 👌

[@georgeh9967]

cant find dovecote

[@poppett.m4481]

@@georgeh9967 are you running the command line version of photorec or the GUI??

[@georgeh9967]

gui@@poppett.m4481

[@georgeh9967]

trying to put episodes in order

[@dimitrijevulic012]

I tried to convert dovecot files and there is not help. Any advice ?

[@MrBurstyou]

Hello, I'd like to give my sincerly THANKS to you! Just of now I had a lot of problems running Windows 11 on my PC (Pretty high-end one) and i had to diskpart clean my SSD to clear the format , but i mistyped wrong disk in the command and I lost my brick HDD which held a lot of pictures and videos gathered for few years. This works like a charm!

[@vi23a]

gosh, same here, but instead of photos i accidentally diskpart clean all my entire 1tb hard disk, thank god this works without a paywall

[@francoisbotes2023]

The is the best video regarding data recovering and free software.

[@nannishta]

Thank you so much. I could recover microsd card files of our Switzerland trip. It was priceless. God bless you.

[@ProThief]

Top lad, all photos recovered thanks mate!

[@AYA-mq8bv]

i accidentally deleted all my photos and this works !!! thankyou so much 😭😭

[@Justin-fy7xk]

Hello When i download the link for my computer it is a zipped file. when i extract the files and go to application i get a different menu than what you have and it does not recognise my sd card.

[@MrJavapiet]

thank you, as a repair technician i use R-Studio data recovery a lot, very high succes rate, and the possiblitiy to look for files without scanning first, supports all file systems mac win linux, maybe you can make a video from this

[@playerm80]

Hello mate I used this software to recover 7tb of movies While it was scanning i could see the movies that it had recovered i could even play them...after a couple of days it finally recovered all the files....but the problem is after the software had finish i could no longer see the files it's telling me it was corrupted and the files are unreadable....but it was fine while it was scanning....extremely frustrating.......any suggestions

[@TheBcoolGuy]

This thing absolutely does recover files. I just hope it can get the video files I was after. I'm finding old memes I deleted, but so far, no video file has popped up. If no such thing appears from the USB drive or the SSD, I guess I'll just have to figure out if those 32kB .gz files are transfer packets and if I can use those to reassemble the video.

[@DiyEcoProjects]

Awesome, thank you Britec, Ill use this one for my photos. Ill put it in my Tools folder

[@SoumayjitMudi]

thank You so much..100% worked..u saved my 1 month of work

[@WrestlingFace]

Cheers, useful information we could all do with, thanks! 👍

[@Britec09]

Glad it was helpful!

[@fredbecker607]

Needed this a couple months back

[@pedrofigueroa1044]

Just finding this video and it saved my data. Thank you so much.

[@ItsANightmare]

Thank you! I accidentally overwritten my ssd with a version of windows by accident and I was horrified I would never see all my data again, the only unfortunate thing is my ssd is now destroyed (1tb went to 30gb)

[@ahmedbadry4979]

same i used media creation tool without finding out it woukd format

[@UNICORNSF3ProgameplayProRACER]

Amazing material👍

[@Britec09]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@NguyenHoang-pv2xd]

Does Photorec & Testdisk support recovery original file name & original folder name ?

[@hanswi336]

No

[@esperantkatolo8009]

Thank you man it worked I got all my pictures back

[@TheBcoolGuy]

I've just realised I could've used this to recover files from the SD card that got corrupted and I gave to my mum along with my phone. But I think I've formatted it by now... Dang. I would've really liked those physique progress pics...

[@rowans_remixes]

This was so helpful and it worked thank you so much!! 😭😭

[@ThatchersResolute]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I accidentslly delete a 1tb harddrive that has over like 5 years back worth of files in it and began panicking But i dont have even enough moeny to pay like 90 dollars for the typical ones I luckily stumbled across this so thank you!

[@Shanx_11190]

Which website u used

[@KuldeepJakhar24]

when you have multiple partitions of same size how can you choose which one to select...this shows all primary partitions with label P

[@muhammadsoliman8390]

i tried it and it's totally efficient. Thank you very much.

[@ethereum1997]

Love you brother from 🇧🇩. You saved my life ❤

[@nepalfirstelectronicstradi6820]

It's amazing,it worked.thanks a lot.🙏🙏🙏

[@darrenwardell3079]

Many many thanks for this info. Priceless

[@PhillHamilton]

Hello Britec. Nice video tutorial, was really helpful.

[@XLoad3d]

Awesome suggestion. So what happened with me is I noticed a few files missing for my thumb drive. During my recovery process is I'm finding all types of metadata and other things that was on the usb drive somehow. some from my web brower or temp data. It was strictly for file storage just dropping pictures or videos and nothing was installed on it. How do you prevent programs from using the thumb drive as a temp storage or anything like that. I think that's why it got corrupted. edit: yea in the future I will not be saving files directly to the usb drive.

[@17elevenstudio]

thanks for sharing, God bless you! Happy New year

[@cackleberryfarm4598]

Using it for my Macbook M1 to recover a Seagate external drive and it says "You need to be in root to use PhotoRec" and tells me there ware no hard drives found. Where can I go from there?

[@dhanushkagayan4419]

works perfectly 🤟🤟🤝🤝 Thank you

[@lexheart5877]

This is the best. Thank you!

[@Mabill0410]

Really useful and really free unlike many others !!!

[@Sonic_Kurt]

this is incredible, thank you so much

[@GuruPhotography-e7w]

This is really awesome.....You saved my life bro.......Thank you so much.....

[@DataSwami]

Thanks so much for sharing this!! Almost went and used Disk Drill. Only thing now is working out what the name of the video files XD

[@lencumbow]

Always great to find new tools. Thank you!

[@Ashman1971]

Thank you so much for this video and how to use the GUI of testdisk and photorec. I had been downloading software from all over the place and found it was either payware or more than likely containing a virus. I'm in the process of recovering my external hard drive. Thumbs up, thank you again :)

[@ssvr2009]

have you successfully recovered your drive 😅 ?

[@Ashman1971]

@@ssvr2009 Yes, it worked, took a tiny bit to understand the setup but I was able to recover everything

[@briangould7756]

How do you change the drive from C to a flash disk to scan? I can only scan the c drive and i need to recover holiday pic and vids thats on a flash drive. when i plug in the usb flash drive the software dont recognize the flash drive.

[@DEADPOOL-fm1bz]

how many gb i can recover? i have 2tb accedent format....

[@bigdaddyhayi]

i can't thank you enough. this is such a life saver

[@saluti30]

CANT RESTORE MY FOOTAGE TO PLAY BACK WHY

[@RockyAllenLane]

It "appears" that this software, like most other data recovery software, recovers files but does NOT recover the original file name. Instead, it just names the recovered files 00001.extension. You have to then "manually" open ever file to see what it is so you can rename it to the original name. Thus not very user freindly IMHO.

[@Britec09]

At least it recovers your data

[@bobdob6612]

Its a nice program.. but the problem is, it writes all the files from whatever you're scanning. So if you're on your 1 tb ssd and scanning a hdd with 4tbs on it, it will just automatically put the files on your computer. Doesn't seem practical for scanning large drives. Seems more for smaller drives, usb or SD cards.

[@The_Keh27]

Trying to find a way to recover files off a hard drive that doesn't show up in file manager, disk management, device manager, or even the BIOS. I DO hear it try to run when connected internally though. Likely will have to pay a local pc repair shop for data recovery services

[@alambalamb]

Absolutely brilliant. I will be donating for sure.

[@bleakyfinder2692]

Thank you Brian, looking for my old Hard Drives going to give it go.

[@Britec09]

Have fun

[@Rich-en8rn]

I a m confused. Am I able to download Photorec only or do I have to download both Testdisc on Photorec together?

[@RameshRam-qj5qb]

great video man it was so help to me

[@bigdaddyhayi]

bro this is such a lifesaver. thank you

[@ralfklein5093]

Thx for the detailed Video, whats about format with no qick format

[@xaphanofthenightfall1257]

my only complaint about this software is the way it does NOT keep the original file names. im now going through 70gigs worth of 112 folders each with hundreds of photos and videos from the past 16ish years. Now i need a piece of software that can compare files and find exact matches so i can delete duplicate/trip/quadlicates.

[@US_Joe]

Good vid Brian. Are the recovered file names original or generated by the software? It can be a real time consuming task to rename the files as you made them. I use Wondershare Recoverit. It was the best IMHO against 3 others including yours. Why? Because it has the least amount of hits with "lost file name". Can you imagine renaming video and music files manually? Hint: The file's metadata might bail you out as to what file it is. G'day Mate 👍

[@Britec09]

file names are not recovered

[@US_Joe]

Thanx for reply. The one I use DOES recover file names 98%@@Britec09

[@NealHartsChannel]

The difference is that it's not free.

[@msh6610]

If master file table is lost or corupted then ya get no filenames.. regardless of program.. except for files with metadata containing the original filename.. (wich is rare as that data is supose to be,, meta :P)

[@US_Joe]

Good point! MFT's contain a mirror and can be fixed. Been doing it for years.@@msh6610

[@jimmytee8913]

Amazing video, thank you so much for this piece of software

[@duqueedits]

Thank you so much, im sure going to donate the creator

[@Strawberrypancakes4me]

thank you so much, this was awesome!

[@Julak]

It works I'm so so happy

[@82oldboy]

So, I followed the instructions and recovered my pictures but they are super tiny. The full resolution is gone. Is there a way to fix this?

[@xxpsyxx2159]

Whenever I launch testdisk when my external hdd is connected it freezes when I select my hdd and cant do anything why?? It works great if I dont connect my external hdd please help same thing happens with explorer.exe on win 11 and cant it fails to open on linux. Only postive is that on windows sometimes before freezing I can open the folders inside it but it freezes before I copy anything

[@funfeeds9505]

Is the file quality the same as the original?

[@AceBoy2099]

Can this do by directory and not just by file type? Im looking for certain folders and their mixed contents after my desktop crashed. Disk is reporting "raw" under format when connected to my win 11 laptop.

[@gamingwithwise7722]

which one do i select if i want to do sd card i keep taking my sd card out and putting it back in to see if it will show up but it will not

[@yashjadhav9887]

It is necessary to format SD card ?? Pls answer

[@GameOn1554]

It depends on the problems of the hard drive or flash drive

[@LakshyaCharms]

But it's not recovering HD photos 😢... I can see its recovered those pics in lower resolution

[@musicalvibestudio]

Bro, I am going to subscribe to your channel. It really helped me a lot, it recovered all of my files. Thanks for that!"

[@farhanfamim763]

Great video. Thanks a lot.

[@angelolima4811]

Can you recover vhdx file on a back up drive or a restore back up for the whole computer

[@MaheshwaraSiva]

What's approx Scanning time for 1gb storage brother ?

[@shrinivaspatil299]

You are Awesome! :)

[@len9518]

Can you compare to Recuva or WinGUI?

[@gwenclarkson3674]

I have tried to download photo rec but do not know which link to use? I chose one and it said it contained malware?

[@jaysonestimos5815]

yo, you are doing god's work there. thanks mate

[@Britec09]

You're welcome

[@ahmadalihasan]

worked for me thank you

[@Britec09]

You're welcome!

[@Infinionlight]

I'm not able to see my drive when I open it. Its an external ssd and it's not showing. Can anyone help?

[@DevilbyMoonlight]

Not used this one, but it looks far easier than manually using a disk editor and chaining the non-contiguous blocks up manually like done in the days of yesteryear...

[@film49uk]

Thank you for this free software yet again great information,

[@ultimatedude80]

thank you sir I thought I lost almost 250 gigs of data I plan on donating once I get my next pay

[@brah9022]

Can somebody please tell me what the video file format is named after i cant find it

[@chef4565]

Do you have any suggestions for Android? I need to recover a photo from my phone and the programs are very expensive

[@_amatzz_]

Yes i did God bless you brother ❤️

[@petrosros]

Works for me, 64 g USB, did not add file names, I must have done something wrong, no complaints . I will go back to photorec and make a small donation.

[@TheCNCDen]

How about recovery from a NAS that uses a Linux based file system using a windows PC?

[@georgekaramolegos5345]

Great job

[@Britec09]

Thanks

[@froglow7475]

This is the best most genuine video 🥹😭😂i had literally stopped breathing before this

[@raulespejo5451]

Does not give me the option to search. I followed all the steps like you but the "search" button is inactive. Maybe it is not free software anymore.

[@Joseph1NJ]

5:30 what if the file system type is unknown?