| Tool | Best For | Limitations | |------|----------|--------------| | | Partition recovery, undelete, file carving (photos, videos, documents) | Command-line interface (for TestDisk); no file/folder names recovered by PhotoRec | | DMDE (Free Edition) | Recovering entire folders from NTFS/FAT/exFAT | Can recover up to 4000 files from one folder per run (often enough) | | Recuva (Free) | Simple undelete from recently emptied Recycle Bin | Cannot handle severe partition corruption or RAID | | Clonezilla | Creating a disk image before recovery (used with other tools) | Not a file recovery tool; imaging only |

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