File Recovery Tools
- Rescuezilla is a free, easy-to-use hard drive disk cloning and imaging application that boots as a live USB. Rescuezilla is fully interoperable with Clonezilla. This means that backups created by Clonezilla, can be restored with Rescuezilla (and vice versa).
- TestDisk can convert dynamic disks to basic disks.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost files after a computer crash? No problem - Recuva recovers files from your Windows computer, recycle bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player!.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
Bundleware
Be careful during installation, the installer will promote you to install CCleaner.
- Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.
- PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- A highly-customizable multiboot USB stick for modern PC Repair. Supports both Legacy BIOS and UEFI. Based on Ventoy.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
- **Not to be confused** with the newer [Hiren’s BootCD PE](https://alternativeto.net/software/hiren-s-bootcd-pe/about/)
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
- Redo Rescue can backup and restore an entire system in minutes, with a point-and-click interface anyone can use. Bare metal restore to a new, blank drive and be up and running in minutes. Supports saving to and restoring from local disks or shared network drives.
- Free • Open Source
- Self-Hosted
- Prey is a lightweight application that will help you track and find your laptop or mobile if it ever gets stolen. It works in Windows, Mac OsX, Linux and Android.
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Hiren’s BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment) is a restored edition of Hiren’s BootCD based on Windows 10 PE x64. PE version is being developed by Hiren’s BootCD fans. it supports UEFI booting and requires minimum 2 GB RAM.
- Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is a software product produced by Acronis that provides data protection including, backup, archive, access and recovery for Microsoft, macOS, iOS and Android operating systems.
- Live/Bootable CD with network support containing tools for file and system recovery, virus scans and more.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
- DiskGenius, previously PartitionGuru, is full-featured partition manager, which is designed to optimize disk usage for Windows users.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- Apple TV
- Clean Master is an all-in-one cleaner app on Android for cleaning app cache, unused files, residual files, search history and uninstalling apps.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- R-Studio is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software.