Whats the best computer recovery files program?

[StoneColdWhat]

I was using Easeus Data Recovery but I was only able to recover the files themselves, a majority of the files were corrupt and couldn't be opened so I'm looking for a good alternative.

[Baldrick]

Recuva is very good.

[FireRouteR]

I would say that it depends on what kind of files are you trying to recover.

Data recovery tools are very good at restoring small files of many different formats, by identifying superficial features of the data (header signatures, footer patterns) and assuming that the file is not fragmented.

But this assumption is not true for video files. The only effective technique that can be used to recover fragmented files is called “deep carving”.

Tools implementing this technique are very few, very specialized, more expensive, slower, and are based on probabilistic algorithms specific to the video and audio formats to recover.

• Recovery tools achieve good results on small files, but not on videos, due to fragmentation.
• Recovery tools can’t actually repair fragments of video files, because they can only identify generic and superficial file features
• Video Repair tools are specialized. They are built to repair one type of videos only,for example Canon EOS 1080p24 or XDCAM 720p30.
• Video Repair tools identify video frames and audio blocks deep inside the file and re-index them into a playable video.

So keep it in mind whenever you need to recover any video file. Generic recovery tools simply won't be able to correctly bring back those files. You will need some specialized video repair tool that can assemble the puzzle, fit the parts of the disk together to restore a functional video file.

Regards,
--Fire

[mike20021969]

Recuva is very good.

+1.

Although on occasion it does recover State>"Excellent" files that are currupt

[hech54]

I'm using one called Stellar Phoenix on a corrupt HDD. Most of the files are not corrupt....the HDD simply will not cooperate/boot/load....whatever. Working pretty well so far.