Audience
Users requiring a solution to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks
About PhotoRec
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory card you are about to recover lost data from. Important, as soon as a picture or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do not save any more pictures or files to that memory device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data. This means that while using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on. PhotoRec ignores the file system; this way it works even if the file system is severely damaged.
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Powerful Features:
1. Recover All File Formats with High Success Rate
2. Restore Data from All Storage Devices
3. Recover Data from All Data Loss Scenarios
4. Simple 3 Steps to Get Back Lost Data
Featured Functions:
1. Read-only Recovery mode
2. Three scan modes: Quick Scan, Deep Scan, Formatted Recovery
3. Preview before recovery: Preview the data to confirm whether the data is still functional with 3 preview methods.
4. Retrieve the original file system that the drive shows 0 bytes (RAW disk)
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Pricing
Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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Company Information
CGSecurity
www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
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