PhotoRec Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to PhotoRec for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is R-Studio. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Autopsy Forensic Browser or GNU ddrescue. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PhotoRec and 13 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to PhotoRec are R-Linux, RecuperaBit, Raise Data Recovery and Foremost.

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PhotoRec alternatives are mainly File Recovery Tools, but if you're looking for Photo Recovery Tools or Hard Disk Recovery Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux and Android. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to PhotoRec.
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  1. R-Studio icon
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    Features cutting-edge recovery for FAT, NTFS, HFS, and EXT systems; works on local and network disks even if damaged, with flexible recovery settings for total control.

    139 R-Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • R-Studio is the most popular Linux alternative to PhotoRec.

    • R-Studio is the most popular commercial alternative to PhotoRec.

    • R-Studio is Paid and ProprietaryPhotoRec is Free and Open Source
  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Autopsy Forensic Browser is the most popular Open Source alternative to PhotoRec.

    • Autopsy Forensic Browser is Free and Open SourcePhotoRec is also Free and Open Source
  3. GNU ddrescue icon
     18 likes

    Command-line utility to copy and recover data from failing drives or files, efficiently tracking progress with logfiles, auto-resuming recovery, merging multiple damaged sources, and providing fill mode to overwrite, mark, or repair sectors for advanced recovery cases.

    25 GNU ddrescue alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. R-Linux icon
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    Efficient file recovery tool designed for Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS within Linux and Unix systems, utilizing IntelligentScan. Free utility, excludes network and RAID features, but provides reliable recovery on supported platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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. Raise Data Recovery is an easy-to-use powerful utility with an intuitive wizard-style interface for data recovery from simple storages with Windows, Linux and macOS file systems and from common RAID-based devices.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8.  1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Recovery Explorer (Standard and RAID) are an effective easy-to-use software solution for retrieving different types of data lost from various devices and file systems.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • 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. 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

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    • Linux
     
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