Open Source Disk Drill AlternativesFile & Hard Disk Recovery Tools like Disk Drill

The best open source alternative to Disk Drill is PhotoRec. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Disk Drill and 12 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Disk Drill are Digler, GNOME Disks, Autopsy Forensic Browser and RecoveRx.

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Disk Drill alternatives are mainly File Recovery Tools, but if you're looking for Hard Disk Recovery Tools or Photo Recovery Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Linux, Mac, Free and Mac + Free. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Disk Drill.
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  1. Digler icon
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    Forensic disk analysis and file recovery solution supporting a wide range of disk image formats and raw devices, file system-agnostic recovery, metadata-independent scans, DFXML reporting, plugin extensibility, intuitive CLI, and integration for diverse forensic needs.

    50 Digler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. GNOME Disks icon
     70 likes

    Efficiently manage disk functions like inspecting, partitioning, and formatting. Utilize disk imaging and backup, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, and encryption. Integrates well with Linux, particularly GNOME, offering RAID setups and benchmarking tools, compatible with various file systems.

    35 GNOME Disks alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
  3. Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer.

    101 Autopsy Forensic Browser alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. RecoveRx icon
     4 likes

    RecoveRx allows to rescue erased files like digital photos, documents, music and videos from memory cards, MP3 music players, USB flash drives, external hard drives and solid state drives.

    57 RecoveRx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. Program written in python that attempts to reconstruct and recover data from disks or disk images. Recommended for use from disk images, works well with ddrescue. Currently only works on ntfs filesystems. Can be ran on any operating system that supports python.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Scrounge NTFS icon
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    Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. DataRecovery is freeware and made by TOKIWA to undelete accidentally deleted files even from recycle bin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Foremost icon
     9 likes

    Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. This process is commonly referred to as data carving. Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive.

    65 Foremost alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, hard disk partitions, CDs, tape devices, ..., where other tools like dd would fail due to I/O...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10.  2 likes

    Scalpel is a file carving and indexing application that runs on Linux and Windows.

    61 Scalpel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11.  1 like

    Scalpel-2.0 - Scalpel; File Carving. Configuration files are modified.

    60 Scalpel 2.0 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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