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.

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.

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.