There might be at least one situation in our lives where we experience the loss of valuable data stored in our PC. I remember I have lost 400 GB of my personal data by unfortunately formatting other hard disk drive during Windows XP installation. Similarly you might have come across such situations in some or the other way so this post talks about what you can do when you are in such situations and presents you with best photo recovery software programs.
Before proceeding please read the article I have written on Data Recovery Tools some time long back , which gives you an insight on how data is stored on disks or drives and how this data recovery tools work to recover the data.
I have been asked many times by my friends about the ways to recover the photos that got corrupted on their memory card by somehow which they don’t know. There are many reasons for data to get corrupt but however we can recover them using the photo recovery tools.
List of 4 best and free Photo Recovery Software Programs
1. Recuva :
Recuva is one among the best photo recovery software which will help you to recover all your lost photos, documents, videos, compressed files, emails and many other files. It is one of the advanced and user friendly tool and with the recent advancements in the tool it is taking very less time to scan and has two variations of scanning your hard drive. Simple and Deep scanning modes where the tool scans for the segments of hard disk to recover your lost data.
- Following is the wizard screen of Recuva which allows you to chose the type of file to recover and selecting other option will allow this tool to scan for all possible types of files that have been deleted from your drive.
- In the next step you can specify the location from where the files have been lost , you can specify the drive path to recover.
Then it scans the disk for any possible recoverable photographs and provides you list so that you can select from the pictures to recover. This software is available from Piriform.
2. PhotoRec :
PhotoRec is one of the advanced prototype software for recovering the lost data files. The software is one among the best tools to recover all formats of the files that have been lost and the drawback is that it does not have an interactive Graphical User Interface and pro is that it does not require any installation.
It deep scans all the sectors of the hard drive selected and directly recovers all the files to mentioned folder but does not have feature to selective recovering of the files as in the case of Recuva.
You can download this software from CGSecurity
3.ZAR ( Zero Assumption Recovery ) :
Zero Assumption Recovery is one among the best recovery tools and the free version of the software allows only you to recover the images. It deep scans the drive and duration of the time would be around 2 to 3 hours for 1 GB scan.
It is almost near competitor for Recuva but not a software that can beat it with the features like preview and simple scan etc. To recover other formats of the files you have to purchase at its official website and same is used to download for photo recovery. Go to z-a-recovery.com
4. UndeletePlus : ( For MAC Users )
UndeletePlus by eSupport is also one among the best recovery tools for Photos, It has Photo Smart Scan which added recently to its list of features for specially recovering the photographs.
Smart Scan is logically equivalent to Deep Scan specially to recover photos. So it is one among the best recovery tools for photos.
It is also available in MAC platform so it would be one of the first option for the best photo recovery softwares for MAC users.
So these are the some of the best software recovery tools that I have observed and please read my other post on data recovery tools as first seen on the related post tab below to know the list of all best data recovery tools.
Thanks.
