Five data recovery tools that could save the day

Test disk by CG Security(cgsecurity.org) is an open sorce product that I've used quite a bit for data recovery and correcting file system errors, but the feature I like the best is the ability to copy files from the problem drive right to the Testdisk folder on my tech computer. It has made me the "hero" on many occasions when my competitors have failed.

I have used a product Spinrite many times to recover bad sectors on a failing drive. All the tools listed are variations on a theme. I was expecting 10 tools in different categories, something like Spinrite to get a dying drive running, something to recover a damaged file system, something to recover an accidentally delete file, something to defrag a file system etc. This felt like fluff.

My son's HD crashed locking in his un-backed up university thesis. I bought a new identical drive and swapped the controllers. When the drive recovered his smile was as wide as the Atlantic! That's what Dads are for, I guess.

I have used active partition & file recovery for years. But it cannot used to recover disks that formatted several times. Is there any solution to recover data that on formatted several times?

I can understand a columnist catering to advertisers, etc. but what about readership. The web is literally littered with misleading labels to download "Free" this or "Free" that which you discover later was meant literally. The download is free, but in order to use what you download, you got to pay. I never expected to see that sort of foolishness here. It's sickening. It may as well be titled "The worlds best article EVER!"

The headline boasts "10 Free Tools" but every description ends with price tag. Oh, I see now! It was meant literally. I misread "10 free tools that IT pros love" to mean 10 free tools for IT pros. My Bad.

I always found icare data recovery as the most reliable data recovery, even it recovered me full structured data format and you wont believe me, i always recommend this in my department and as well as whoever want to recover their data.