Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Best Data Recovery Tools

I recently faced an interesting challenge of recovering data from my 1TB portable external storage device. The device's MBR somehow malfunctioned and I was left with almost 700GB of raw data. As per Windows, the only option to access the storage device was to format it but before doing that I wanted to recover the data first!

I majorly used the following tools for recovery:
  • Easeus Data Recovery
  • Recuva
  • TestDisk
As per my experience:
  • Easeus was the fastest tool to recover data
  • Recuva was the fastest tool in detecting data on the malfunctioned device
  • TestDisk was the best tool in recovering data that both Easeus and Recuva tools were unable to find