data recovery Archives

ext4magic – recover deleted or overwritten files

ext4magic is a Linux admin tool.It can help to recover deleted or overwritten files on ext3 and ext4 filesystems.

Scalpel is a data carving and indexing application. Scalpel is not under active maintenance. This is free and open source software.

Foremost is a terminal-based program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.

Redo Rescue can backup and restore an entire system in minutes, with a simple point-and-click interface. Free and open source software.

Safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a seekable, but problematic source.

Knoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of open source Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and much more.

Rescuezilla (formerly known as Redo Backup and Recovery) is so simple and user-friendly that anyone can use it.

PhotoRec is a data recovery software tool designed to recover lost files from digital camera memory. It’s free and open source software.

Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian.

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery software. Designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.