Accidentally losing your data is a delicate situation that most of us have already faced. It’s certainly an embarrassing situation, but not entirely hopeless. In a perfect world, we would all regularly back up our files, and even create an image backup of our operating system. But in reality, we always realize after losing all our data that we should have made a backup. Fortunately, all is not lost, since there are still other ways to perform a data extraction to recover deleted files. However, using software capable of performing data extraction comes at a certain cost, as most of them are paid. Some people may be willing to pay hundreds of euros to recover their important files, but certainly not to recover photos with a grandfather or Snapchat selfies.
Using data extraction software proves to be an ideal and more economical solution, allowing you to recover lost data yourself, or to go through a professional.
There are many data extraction software programs on the market whose trial version is free and easy to use. Here are a few of these programs that you can already download online.
HEXASCAN
The software Hexascan by Recoveo Software is a renowned data recovery and extraction tool, with more than 25 years of experience in the field. Recoveo has won more than 100 awards and has a team of over 100 engineers working on data extraction technology.
Hexascan is available on Windows in 6 versions. With this software, the user can scan all types of files on any kind of storage media with different file systems and perform data extraction.
By purchasing the first paid version of the software, you will be able to recover unlimited amounts of data. And with the professional edition, support for erased hard drive partitions is added.
Hexascan also offers a more advanced version, the “Expert or specialist” edition, allowing you to recover data from virtual disks and drives configured in RAID and NAS.
Recuva
Recuva is software developed by Piriform, the same company behind the famous Ccleaner. It is the reference in data extraction, available on Windows and very easy to use.
Recuva can be used by everyone, even those with no knowledge in the field. The interface is designed to be accessible to all users, meaning it is clear, simple and easy to read. It even asks you a few important questions, such as:
- What type of file needs to be recovered?
- Where is it located?
Furthermore, once the scan is complete, Recuva displays all the files that can be recovered and indicates the success probability of the extraction process with color-coded markers. It is also capable of recovering all kinds of files, image, document, videos, audio, even e-mails. From any storage media; hard drive, memory card, USB stick, etc. This software can even recover data from formatted hard drives.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
Being one of the leaders in the field of data extraction, the company EaseUS has released its famous data recovery software “EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard”. It is free and also one of the most powerful and accomplished free recovery programs.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard has been downloaded more than 72 million times, which proves that it is even more sought after by users. With this program, you can recover almost all of your files with a 97% success rate. It always manages to recover lost files, regardless of how they were deleted. Whether due to accidental deletion, formatting, emptying the recycle bin or the loss of a partition. Just like Recuva, it is also compatible with a multitude of storage media, such as an external hard drive, a computer, a USB stick, a camera, etc.
It is also known to be an easy-to-use software since the user only has to choose the desired type of scan (quick or in-depth) and select the files to recover.
PC Inspector File Recovery 4.X
Available only on Windows, PC Inspector File Recovery 4.x is totally free and capable of recovering any file from FAT, NTFS or exFAT systems. It can detect lost partitions even when the hard drive is no longer visible to the operating system.