A good data recovery software? 📦

3    10 Mar 2021 16:44 by u/TooControversialForReddit

A 32gb sd card I have got corrupted. Is there any good recovery software (preferably one that's easy to crack) to recover the files? Also, many files were in obscure formats, can I recover them?

3 comments

1 u/CaptainPenguin 10 Mar 2021 16:53
I have used [PhotoRec](https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) on magnetic hard disks with severe head crash to recover photo, video, and document files with very little effort. It does only recover specific types of media and document files. However, since you're dealing with an SD card, its a fair assumption that PhotoRec could recover the type of files that are typically stored on SD media.
1 u/ruqs_user 10 Mar 2021 17:27
Is it free?
1 u/CaptainPenguin 10 Mar 2021 17:39
Oh yeah, it's GPL licensed.