Media Investigator AlternativesFile Recovery Tools and other similar apps like Media Investigator

Media Investigator is described as 'Powerful & easy-to-use tool to find & recover your lost, deleted and formatted files, photos and videos' and is a File Recovery tool in the security & privacy category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Media Investigator for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Media Investigator alternative is Recuva, which is free. Other great apps like Media Investigator are PhotoRec, R-Studio, GetDataBack and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

Media Investigator alternatives are mainly File Recovery Tools but may also be Hard Disk Recovery Tools or Photo Recovery Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Media Investigator.

Media Investigator

Freemium • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool

Powerful & easy-to-use tool to find & recover your lost, deleted and formatted files, photos and videos.

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Recuva
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Freemium • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Photo Recovery Tool
Windows
PortableApps.com
161 Recuva alternatives
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!.
- - Recuva is the most popular Windows alternative to Media Investigator.
- - Recuva is the most popular free alternative to Media Investigator.
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Recuva Features
1. PortableRecuva can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Photo RecoveryRecuva can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
3. NTFS Partition RecoveryRecuva can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
4. Recover Corrupted FilesRecuva can recover and repair corrupted files that won't open or that open with an error.
5. LightweightRecuva consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Bundleware
Be careful during installation, the installer will promote you to install CCleaner.
PhotoRec
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Free • Open Source
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Photo Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
147 PhotoRec alternatives
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures.
- - PhotoRec is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Media Investigator.
- - PhotoRec is the most popular Open Source alternative to Media Investigator.
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PhotoRec Features
1. DRM FreeNo Digital rights management (DRM), i.e. no copy protection.
2. Photo RecoveryPhotoRec can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
3. Recover Corrupted FilesPhotoRec can recover and repair corrupted files that won't open or that open with an error.
4. Ad-freePhotoRec doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
5. LightweightPhotoRec consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
6. NTFS Partition RecoveryPhotoRec can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
Disk drive recovery
Text-based
Finds deleted files
R-Studio
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
137 R-Studio alternatives
R-Studio is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software. Empowered by the new unique data recovery technologies, it is the most comprehensive data recovery solution for recovery files from FAT12/16/32/exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 (created or updated by...
- - R-Studio is the most popular commercial alternative to Media Investigator.
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R-Studio Features
1. Ad-freeR-Studio doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. LightweightR-Studio consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. NTFS Partition RecoveryR-Studio can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
RAID recovery
GetDataBack
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Windows
134 GetDataBack alternatives
GetDataBack, for FAT or NTFS drive and partitions, will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has...
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EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Photo Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Android
iPhone
129 EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard alternatives
Advanced data recovery software to do format recovery, unformat and recover deleted files emptied from Recycle Bin or lost data due to partition loss or damage, software crash, virus infection, unexpected shutdown or any other unknown reasons under Windows operating system.
- - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Media Investigator.
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EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Features
1. Photo RecoveryEaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
DiskDigger
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Freemium • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Photo Recovery Tool
Windows
139 DiskDigger alternatives
DiskDigger is a program that undeletes and recovers lost files from your hard drive, memory cards, USB flash drives — you name it! Whether you accidentally deleted some documents or photos from your computer, reformatted your camera's memory card, or want to see what files...
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DiskDigger Features
1. Photo RecoveryDiskDigger can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
2. Root requiredRequires root to use DiskDigger, mainly relevant for Android apps.
Android Recovery
Kickass Undelete
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Free • Open Source
File Recovery Tool
Windows
89 Kickass Undelete alternatives
Kickass Undelete is a free, fully featured, file recovery tool for Windows. Accidentally deleted a file? Never fear; the data is probably still on your drive and may be recoverable. Kickass Undelete finds all of the deleted files on your hard drive, flash drive or SD card and...
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Kickass Undelete Features
1. PortableKickass Undelete can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
Not updated since 2018-12-10 according to https://sourceforge.net/p/kickassundelete/git/ci/master/tree/
Lazesoft Recovery Suite
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Free Personal • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Hard Disk Recovery Tool
Windows
155 Lazesoft Recovery Suite alternatives
Lazesoft Recovery Suite is a very easy to use ALL-IN-ONE boot disk that repair your crashed Windows, recover data from deleted, formatted, damaged partition, clone or backup disk, reset your forgotten Windows password.
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Lazesoft Recovery Suite Features
1. PortableLazesoft Recovery Suite can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Password RecoveryLazesoft Recovery Suite can help you recover your passwords for software applications and hardware devices.
Windows password recovery
Windows repair
Rescue cd
DiskWarrior
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Mac
126 DiskWarrior alternatives
DiskWarrior is the safest, most technologically advanced, most powerful utility to eliminate directory damage and recover your files, folders and documents. DiskWarrior is so advanced it can even recover your data from a failing hard drive.
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DiskWarrior Features
Repair Partitions
MiniTool Power Data Recovery
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Freemium • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Photo Recovery Tool
Windows
145 MiniTool Power Data Recovery alternatives
MiniTool Power Data Recovery is all in one data recovery software for both home and business users. It can easily restore lost or mistakenly deleted files from computer hard drive, external hard drive, SSD, USB, SD card, and more.
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MiniTool Power Data Recovery Features
1. Photo RecoveryMiniTool Power Data Recovery can recover photos from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage.
2. NTFS Partition RecoveryMiniTool Power Data Recovery can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
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FreeRecover
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Free • Open Source
File Recovery Tool
Windows
89 FreeRecover alternatives
FreeRecover is a free file recovery program for NTFS drives. It allows you to search though and preview deleted files to find lost data. It also estimates the integrity of the deleted files, as well as retrieves their original file paths.
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FreeRecover Features
1. NTFS Partition RecoveryFreeRecover can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
Discontinued
Last updated in 2017
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Wise Data Recovery
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Windows
PortableApps.com
122 Wise Data Recovery alternatives
Wise Data Recovery is a free data recovery program to get back deleted photos, documents, videos, emails etc. from your local or removable drives for free.
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Wise Data Recovery Features
1. NTFS Partition RecoveryWise Data Recovery can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
2. PortableWise Data Recovery can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.