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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: July 18, 2009
- Total Downloads: 7,127
- Downloads last week: 305
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on November 12, 2009
DiskDigger is a compact, self-contained utility that can recover lost, damaged, and deleted files from any media your PC can read, including hard, floppy, and optical disks, flash drives, and memory cards. It bypasses the Windows file system drivers, with built-in support for all file systems, so it can scan most media directly. It scans disks deeply, including reformatted, badly formatted, and wiped disks. It even handles disks with bad sectors and other damage, though it's not a repair utility, it's just an excellent file-recovery tool that happens to be free.
The entire application resides in just one executable file that can be run from any computer, so there's nothing to install, and it leaves no traces of its operation behind. DiskDigger has an attractive, clean interface that's surprisingly sophisticated for such a compact utility; just two main panes: The left pane displays the scanned data, and the right pane shows an image of recovered files. It has two methods of scanning, a file system scan and a deep scan of the entire disk surface that looks for traces of lost and deleted files. The file system scan is quick and the deep scan is slow, but you might be surprised what you can dig out of an old hard disk with it. Still, we like that DiskDigger lets you preview most files before actually scanning them, so you don't waste time.
DiskDigger works with all versions of Windows. It's easy to use, but its Web site offers excellent support if needed.
Publisher's description
From Dmitry Brant :DiskDigger can recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick), and of course your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers includes photos, videos, music, documents, and other formats. DiskDigger works by thoroughly scanning each sector of your media for traces of files.
Version 0.8.3 adds support for .WPD (WordPerfect) file format.
What's new in this version:
Version 0.8.3 adds support for .WPD (WordPerfect) file format.
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Version: DiskDigger 0.8.3
Pros: detailed scanning
Cons: no deletion process
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Version: DiskDigger 0.8.3
"Good program for SD flash cards"
Pros: Good program for flash cards i haven`t fully tested it on hard drive but it will helps you get out of mess if you have inportant files on your flash cards without formatting your card
Cons: unable to recover Pdf% and Powerpoint files
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Version: DiskDigger 0.8.3
"Would be good if it worked more than once or twice"
Pros: Worked well the first couple of times
Cons: Would not work after the first couple of uses!
Summary: I found when I went to open it, it came up with an error which on second attempt opened successfully.
First and second times were a success, but after that it would get nearly half way
through the scan and freeze up, meaning you couldn't e... read more >> - See all 3 user reviews Write review
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