Data Rescue for Windows

Urgent hard drive rescue for PCs

Is a hard disk not mounting or behaving erratically? Have important files been deleted or become inaccessible? Data Rescue 3 can often retrieve data from drives that are damaged, partially functional, or appear to be corrupt. It’s particularly handy for recovering photos from camera cards that were erased or reformatted.

Top suggested alternative

Recommended alternative: Do Your Data Recovery Free — a no-cost option to try before paying. Both solutions let you scan failing drives and copy recovered items to another location so you don’t overwrite any remaining data.

Where recovered files can be saved

• Network shares and mapped drives
• External disks connected by USB or FireWire
• Internal drives inside the same computer
• Removable media such as Zip or MO cartridges
• Optionally, a bootable emergency DVD image for offline recovery

How the application guides you

• Choose the target disk or volume to inspect
• Let the software analyze the media to locate recoverable files
• Recover selected items and preview them beforehand so you avoid wasting time restoring the wrong files

Notable capabilities

• Handles many file types, including common photos, documents and multimedia
• Can work even when a drive is only partially operational
• Preview function available for many file types before you commit to recovery
• Includes tools to re-create DMG images and detect files that lack standard extensions

Recent enhancements and additions

• Improved Deep Scan behavior in some scenarios
• Now able to preview a wider set of file formats that previously had non-standard extensions
• DMG images without a partition table can be located and restored
• Added recovery support for additional ORF raw images
• Better restoration for certain TIFF, AVI, PEF raw and InDesign files in particular situations
• Contextual menu added to Details view for faster access to commonly used actions
• New “Expert” option for securely wiping drives/volumes to HFS+
• Simplified Workspace and Home Folder workflows for clearer operation
• New welcome window to make it easier to resume suspended or completed scans
• Native 64-bit execution on supported Snow Leopard systems

Stability fixes and miscellaneous corrections

• Addressed several memory leaks and sources of potential crashes
• Fixed intermittent crash when finishing an analysis operation
• Resolved an issue where unmarking many nodes before quitting made the UI appear to hang
• Improved browsing performance and overall stability when viewing scan results
• Corrected problems encountered when running the app on a secondary monitor
• Ensured user interface preferences are saved in the Home Folder when booted from the DVD
• Corrected rendering issues with certain arenas on Snow Leopard
• Made multiple usability tweaks to the Set Drive/Volume Parameters dialog
• Fixed a rare crash that occurred if a device disconnected during an erase attempt
• Corrected cases where erasing a mounted volume or erasing on macOS 10.4 failed or produced misleading warnings
• Ensured activation is applied properly when the app starts from a read-only volume
• Fixed recovery errors for catalog files that had more than eight fragments

If you need more guidance on which tool to try first or how to create the emergency DVD, tell me what operating system and drive type (HDD, SSD, USB, camera card) you’re working with and I’ll recommend the next steps.