Hirend boot cd is usefull as it has a collection of hard disk diagnostics If the disk has bad sectors you need cloning software which can deal with bad sectors without crashing or giving up Clone damaged disk to a new or known good disk of equal size before doing data recovery on copy. Hi Have you checked for hardware faults eg bad sectors before trying data recovery? So if anyone knows of a FREE data recovery program that can not scan for deleted files, and possibly even recover an entire partition instead of just finding the files, please let me know. Filescavenger managed to only find what I acually needed by having an option to not scan for deleted files.
EaseUS took over 16 hours because it found OLD deleted files as well, it found over 18tb of data on 1.5 tb drive. I'm currently trying recuva and also downloading paragon rescue kit in case recuva is another 'free until we find your data' program. They claim they're free until after the 10+ hours of scanning, then want 50+ bucks to recover anything over a few kb. I've tried 3 different data recovery programs to retrieve data from a formatted HDD.
Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and select the file types you want to recover. Please see below on How to Do Memory Card Format Recovery: Step 1.
