Full Review

DiskDigger is more than the usual undelete utility offered gratis as a leader product. It goes "beneath the file system" to recover data on a sector-by-sector basis from hard drives, thumb drives, etc. Think of these sectors as little boxes containing data that are arranged in tracks/circles on your hard drive.

DiskDigger couldn't be easier to use. Select a drive, select the types of files to be recovered (jpeg, mp3, documents, etc.) then click next. To be honest, we weren’t expecting a free program to recognize the hard drive, let alone recover data from it. We tested DiskDigger inside a VMWare virtual machine and while it didn't recognize the virtual hard drives, it did find the trashed drive. What's more, it found files. And recovered them.

It has the ability to search ISO disk images for missing or existing files. You can also limit a search to a logical drive (some disks are partitioned into multiple logical drives: C:, D:, E:, etc.) instead scanning the entire physical drive. DiskDigger is a free, easy-to-use recovery program that in many cases works as well as other non-free recovery tools like Active@ File Recovery.