computer file recovery

So you've learned that photo recovery software can be used to recover deleted or lost pictures from a memory card or from a computer — even if you've formatted the card/disk, or it became corrupted. That's great. But not all photo recovery tools are created equal. In our experience, some are good at recovering deleted external drive not showing up pictures, some good at digging a little deeper and rescuing more images from a crashed storage media. We've tested every popular digital photo recovery program to determine which was best for recovering photos (and other type of media files like videos and audio files) — analyzing everything from security, recovery ability, supported devices, ease of use, and system compatibility. We make sure all tested and recommended tools are virus-free, we do so by uploading the downloaded file to Valkyrie — a sophisticated file verdict system for such usage. We also evaluate if the program is nondestructive or versatile, as soft...

We simulated the most common data loss scenario –files lost to a virus, registry corruption or accidental deletion –and ran it across multiple hard drives to compare success rates. Remo Photo Recovery recouped all lost raster files in every test. Beyond that, it recovered 68 percent of lost vector images and 63 percent of production images. In our reformatted clean master android drive tests, Remo recovered 100 percent of JPG files and 99 percent of other raster image files. Vector images saw a 73 percent return, and production images saw 63 percent recovery. However, the software really struggled to recover any of the camera raw files during the reformatting portion of our tests. Overall, we found Remo’s photo recovery software to be extremely easy to install and use. Its modern, colorful interface is intuitive, and it only takes a few clicks to initiate a scan. While the software did an excellent job at recovering the files themselves, it failed at recouping their original names, ...