The top data recovery tools

Your fault, my fault, nobody’s fault… it doesn’t matter. When a file you need is gone, all you really want to do is get it back: as quickly and as painlessly as possible. Deleted by accident? Formatted by mistake? Drive corrupted by the latest attempt at quadruple-booting? Plugged in the power to a non-hot swappable drive? Dragged a DVD across the gravel parking lot? Ran the USB key through the wash? We’ve heard, seen, and even done most of them, and along the way we have found a number of great tools to bring our data back from the dead.

These 23 free data recovery tools run the gamut. There’s bound to be a tool in this list that can bring your dead data back too. As long as the drive is not physically dead, there is a chance. Try one of these tools out.