In this digital age, there are countless ways to lose your digital data. It may due to a sudden power failure, failed boot drives, partition damage, an accidentally emptied Recycle Bin or due to a virus attack. The sudden loss of the valuable data can be a frustrating, infuriating or downright terrifying experience. Thanks to technology, there are several lools to recover your lost data no matter what the cause. When a file is deleted from your system, the file contents are still there on the drive and only the filename has been marked as removed. So you couldn't access the file directly. Data recovery tools use a quick Scan, that takes a few seconds to find the recently deleted data.  You can choose the files that you wish to recover and the tools recover them back to a new directory.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard

Quickly recover data from unexpected lost caused by accidental deletion or affected by virus attack. Formatting a disk does not erase the data on the disk, only the data on the address tables. You can still retrieve your lost data after a format on your device. Even if your whole partition is missing or cannot be recognized by the system, your data is still recoverable. When a hard drive is corrupted, it becomes inaccessible. EaseUS data recovery Free allows users to find data again. Recover files from a crashed Windows operating system. EaseUS provides a downloadable WinPE bootable media so that you can start your computer and recover lost data.

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Disk Drill

Recover your lost data on system disks and external devices, including all types of memory cards and USB drives. If you can connect it to your computer, Disk Drill can find your lost data. Disk Drill scans for lost data and scavenges recoverable files from any accessible media. Hard drives, both internal and external, memory cards, USB drives, music players — Disk Drill can read all of them. Disk Drill can accomplish free file recovery from a wide range of file systems, including NTFS, FAT32, EXT, HFS+. All your lost documents, including music, pictures, videos, documents, custom file formats and much more can be quickly and easily restored. Deep Scan does a thorough search of your entire drive to find and reconstruct lost files. Disk Drill's Deep Scan feature recognizes more than 350 file types.

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Prosoft Data Rescue

Data Rescue is a data recovery software for Windows. Find, recover, and preview accidentally deleted files, lost data, and reformatted drives with ease. Go beyond hard drive recovery software. Data Rescue recovers files from a multitude of devices including SD cards, USB drives, CF cards, solid state drives, and more.

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Recuva

Recuva can recover pictures, music, documents, videos, emails or any other file type you’ve lost. And it can recover from any rewriteable media you have memory cards, external hard drives, USB sticks and more! Unlike most file recovery tools, Recuva can recover files from damaged or newly formatted drives. Greater flexibility means a greater chance of recovery. For those hard to find files, Recuva has an advanced deep scan mode that scours your drives to find any traces of files you have deleted. Sometimes you want a file gone for good. Recuva’s secure overwrite feature uses industry- and military-standard deletion techniques to make sure your files stay erased.

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Recover My Files data recovery
(http://www.recovermyfiles.com/)

This software recovers deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, files lost due to the format or re-install of a hard drive, or files removed by a virus, Trojan infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure.

Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery
(https://www.stellarinfo.com/)

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a do-it-yourself data recovery software that helps you to easily recover deleted files & folders, missing or corrupt partitions and even accidentally formatted hard drives. It recovers All File Types Including Office Documents, Photo, Video, Emails & more.

Orion File Recovery Software
(https://www.nchsoftware.com/data-recovery/)

Orion searches for deleted files on your hard drive or any external or portable drive connected to your computer. Files that are not overwritten can either be recovered or permanently deleted to prevent future recovery.