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SysTools Hard Drive Recovery Software

(Average Rating 4.2 Based on 1168 Reviews)

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SysTools Hard Drive Recovery Software

Recover Lost, Deleted, Formatted & Corrupted Hard Drive Data Safely

Accidentally lost your files? SysTools Hard Drive Recovery Software restores deleted, formatted, RAW, and corrupted data from internal and external hard drives - without overwriting a single byte of your existing data. Compatible with all Windows systems.

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  • Restore (Shift+Deleted) Files Recover Permanently Deleted Folders From HDD
  • Recover Files After Formatting Supports FAT16, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS Hard Drive File Systems
  • Universal Support Works With Desktop/Laptop HDDs and External Hard Disks (USB 3.0/USB-C)
  • Deleted Partition Recovery - From Missing & Unallocated Partitions (GPT and MBR supported)
  • Support RAW Files Recovery From "Disk Not Formatted" or "RAW" Partitions Safely
  • Recover Lost Data from HFS & HFS+ MAC OS File System Directly on Windows PC
  • Enables Category Filter and Save Required Files from Recovered Data
  • Supports Modern Drives NVMe SSD, SATA SSD, USB 3.0 and Legacy SATA/IDE Interfaces
  • Compatible With Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 (32-bit & 64-bit) and Windows Server 2008-2019

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Data Loss? Check Immediate Recovery Steps

Just lost data? Stop using that drive right now. Every new file saved, app opened, or system update running on that drive risks permanently overwriting your lost files. The data is likely still there and you only need to act immediately.

SysTools Emergency Recommendations:

  • Do not run CHKDSK on a failing drive as it is designed to fix file system error.
  • Do not click "Format disk" as this prompt appears when the file system is unreadable.
  • Install Hard Drive Recovery Software on a different drive
  • Clicking or grinding sounds mean stop immediately
  • Your data is safe during a SysTools scan due to read-only, non-destructive scanning methods.
  • Time matters so act before any new data overwrites the old

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Hard Drive Data Recovery Solution for All Data Loss Cases

Secure Hard Drive Recovery Software to Recover Deleted, Formatted and Corrupted Data

Data loss from a drive does not always mean that the hard drive data is gone forever. Usually your files are still on the hard drive disk. You cannot get to them because of system errors or corruption or things you did by accident. Common reasons, for hard drive data loss:

  • Recover Data from Clicking Hard Drives: Get all logical support for drives with minor head issues.
  • Fix Drive Not Initialized Error: Full access for drives that displayed as "Unknown" in Disk Management.
  • Recovery of Missing/Lost Partitions: Easily recover your files from unallocated space or deleted disk volumes.
  • Bypass Cyclic Redundancy Check: Skip all the bad sectors to safely extract your readable data.
  • Fix File System Errors: Completely rebuild the MFT and MBR to easily repair RAW drives and "Access Denied" errors.
  • Recover Files After Factory Reset: Easily recover safely all data after factory reset situation.
  • External HDD Connectivity Issues: exclusive deep scanning for drives that disconnected during the data transfer.
  • OS Crashes and Boot Errors: Easy to recover from system drives that are no longer booted into Windows.

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Bad Sector in Disk

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Corrupted file systems
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Power Failure During
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Recover Permanently Deleted Data From Hard Drive

Recover Deleted Data From Hard Drive - Any Brand

Data deletion happens accidentally - a wrong keystroke, an accidental format, or an emptied Recycle Bin. But SysTools can recover hard drive data regardless of the brand or model.

  • WD (Western Digital) Recovery: Complete support for WD My Passport, Elements, and WD Blue/Black internal drives.
  • Seagate Drive Restoration: Recover data from Seagate Expansion, Backup Plus and Barracuda series flawlessly.
  • Toshiba and Samsung Support: Advanced algorithms to handle data loss in Toshiba Canvio and Samsung portable hard disks.
  • Other Major Brands: Software is fully compatible with HGST, Hitachi, Maxtor and Transcend storage media.
  • Laptop Hard Drive Recovery: Recover data from crashed or formatted laptops of all brands including Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS and Acer.

selecting a partition in SysTools hard drive recovery software interface

Recover Files After Formatting Hard Drive

You need to format disk before you can use it is a common error which users are facing. Once this error occurs user can’t open the hard disk before formatting.

We also know that formatting a hard disk can make files inaccessible and may appear to erase all stored data. So, if your files erased from hard disk due to formatting. Then use this recovery tool to easily recover hard drive data after format.

  1. Download and install the software on your computer
  2. Select hard drive partition and hit Formatted Scan
  3. Now the tool will scan the selected partition, let it complete to 100%
  4. Here software will list all recovered files in preview panel
  5. Save all recovered deleted file from external HDD after formatting

List of Key Features in Hard Drive Data Recovery Software

Best Tool to Recover Permanently Deleted Data from Hard Drive

Best Hard Drive Data Recovery Software

Complete Hard Drive Data Recovery

Recover photos, videos, music, documents, and all other file types from any Windows hard drive, with original folder structure and filenames intact. Raw file recovery is also supported for formatted drives that including ZIP, JPEG, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, MP3, AVI, BMP, and more.

NTFS Hard Drive Recovery

Support MAC & Windows File System

Advanced disk recovery tool supports recovery of data from Windows OS (NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and Extended FAT file systems and Mac OS (HFS+) file system. So, It become quite easy to recover Normal deleted, shift deleted, & formatted data from NTFS, FAT, HFS, and HFS+ type of file formats.

Formatted Hard Disk Recovery

Formatted Disk Drive Recovery

This software can recover the items from formatted or reformatted hard disk drives (c: / d: / e: / f: / k: etc.) of unlimited sizes. Software can automatically detect all the available partitions; once you launch the software on your computer.

Recover Permanently Deleted Hard Drive Data

Recover Permanently Deleted Data from HDD

In case, you have permanently deleted the data by using Shift + delete key from hard drive. Then you can use this Hard drive recovery software to quickly restore the data from respective NTFS and fat hard disk file format professionally.

Internal and External Hard Drive Data Recovery

Internal & External Hard Drive Recovery

Hard Drive Recovery software can restore corrupt or lost data from system hard drive as well external hard drive of IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB hard disk, memory card, USB flash drive, iPod etc. Try this professional software for complete recovery.

Recover Laptop Hard Drive

Choose Location to Save Recovered Data

After complete recovery, you can restore and save the recovered data at any desirable location. Also, you can create a new folder from hard disk recovery wizard panel itself and save the data in it as per your convenience.

Support RAW File Recovery

RAW File System Recovery

If your file system is displayed as RAW or if you are unable to access any of the drive and getting warning like: "disk not formatted. do you want to format now?" then possibly; your hard drive is corrupted. Now, instead of formatting the particular hard drive and losing the data completely, you can recover the raw partition with disk drive recovery tool.

Regain Normal and Shift Deleted Data

Regain Normal & Shift Deleted Data

The hard disk data recovery wizard fetches normal as well as permanently deleted files from each folder of the drive. It lists the recuperated shift-deleted files with red color in its primary folder. However, the recovered normal deleted files get accumulated in one folder and then, listed in preview area.

Maintain Folder Structure

Maintains On-Disk Folder Structure

After recovering data from internal and external hard drive, the software will retain the original on disk folder structure. The tool ensures to recover complete data from every folder that is present in your systems hard drive professionally; without any loss and change in original formatting of files and other items.

Corrupt MBR, MFT Hard Drive File Recovery

Corrupt MBR, MFT or FAT Recovery

Corruption in MFT or MBR files may cause hard disk failure or complete data loss; as both these files present the most special information about each file that is stored in NTFS or FAT file systems. In such situations, SysTools can scan below the file system level to recover data lost due to MFT, MBR, or FAT corruption.

Auto Detect Drives with Attributes

Auto Detect Drives with Attributes

Hard Drive Data Recovery software is intelligent enough to auto detect and previews all the drives on any machine with its complete properties like: model number, disk number, total size and free size.

Scan and Preview Option

Quick Scan and Preview Recovered Data

To recover data from hard disk, software performs quick scanning of storage device and generates the preview of recovered data with properties like: file name, size, type, creation date, modification date.

Search Files Within Recovered Data

Search Files within Recovered Data

You can search for any specific file or item within the recovered data with smart searching feature of hard drive recovery tool. Apply the date filters to refine the searching by file creation date or last modified date.

Sort Hard Drive Items by Attributes

Sort Hard Drive Items by Attributes

While previewing the recovered items in software panel then the hard disk data recovery software full version allows you to sort the data by its properties. You can easily arrange the data in ascending or descending order by its name, size, type, date of creation, and date of modification.

Recover Selective File and Folders

Recover Selective Files / Folders

Hard Drive Data Recovery software allows you to extract and save selected folders from the recovered data. You can check the folder which you want to export and proceed for saving it. The software provides multiple features which helps users to perform professional recovery from hard drive.

Recover Deleted Data from PC

Recover Deleted Data from Laptops and Computer

It doesn’t matter whether you're on a desktop or laptop, SysTools recovers lost files from any Windows PC of any brand - Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Acer, and more. If You need secure software for hard drive recovery then just download and install this tool on Windows OS system and follow few steps to recover files and data safely.

Formatted Drive Recovery Test

SysTools Formatted Drive Recovery (Lab Test Results 2026)

We deleted and formatted files from four different types of drives under controlled conditions on a Windows 11 machine. Each drive was tested twice using Quick Scan and Deep/Formatted Scan.

Recovery Rate by Data Loss Scenario

Scenario Files Used Files Recovered Recovery Rate
Accidental deletion (Shift+Delete) 500 496 99.2%
Quick format (NTFS) 500 481 96.2%
Full format (FAT32) 500 463 92.6%
RAW / unreadable drive 500 441 88.2%
Corrupted file system (MFT damage) 500 427 85.4%

Test Machine

Intel Core i7-12700, 16GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro 64-bit

How SysTools Hard Drive Recovery Software Works

Download and Install Software to Recover Data From Internal and External Hard Drive Quickly

Select Formatted Scan to Deep Scan Deleted Hard Drive Data

  • Step 1: Drive Detection
    Automatically detects all connected internal and external hard drives.
  • Step 2: Intelligent Scanning
    Advanced scanning of file systems, partitions, and RAW sectors using smart algorithms.
  • Step 3: Data Reconstruction Rebuilds directory structure and file metadata wherever possible.
  • Step 4: Preview Before Recovery
    Preview recoverable files to verify data integrity before saving.
  • Step 5: Secure Data Saving
    Saves recovered data to a user-selected safe location, never the same drive.

Why SysTools is Safer Than Ordinary Recovery Tools

SysTools is a renowned name when it comes to safe recovery options and offers Zero Risk Recovery Guarantee. Check Success list when recovery from hard drive is possible:

  • Drive detected in BIOS? - Yes, Recovery is Possible.
  • Drive showing in Disk Management? - Yes, 100% Recovery Possible.
  • Accidental format? - Yes, Possible With High Success Rate.

Hard Drive Recovery Software - Specifications

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Size: 27.6 MB

Version: 18.6

MD5: d0b4dd3646eac189619ddf7fd9b412db

Trial Limitations

Limitations
Demo version of Hard Drive Data Recovery software will generate only preview of entire recovered items. It support recovery from external and internal hard drive. You can easily recover permanently deleted, formatted and corrupted files from computer or laptop hard disk.

System Specifications

Hard Disk Space
100 MB of free hard disk space required

RAM
2 GB is recommended

Processor
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz 2.39GHz

Application
Pre-Requisites

  • If you are using Windows 11 (64-bit), 10, 8, 7 (32 bit or 64 bit) & Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2, 2008, then please launch the tool as "Run as Administrator".
  • Microsoft .NET framework 4.5 or above

Supported
Editions

  • Microsoft Windows – Windows 11 (64 bit), 10, 8, 7 (32 bit or 64 bit) & Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2, 2008
  • Supports Recovery for Windows File Systems – FAT 32, FAT 16, ExFAT, NTFS File System & Cross-Formats between NTFS & Other Formats like FAT16 & FAT32
  • Supports Recovery for Mac File Systems – HFS+
  • Disk types – Basic & Dynamic
  • Supported Partition – GPT and MBR
  • Bitlocker protected volumes or partitions are not supported.

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Recover Accidentally Deleted Files From Hard Drive Highest success rate — 99.2%

Recover permanently deleted files from hard drive windows 11 and all lower editions including those removed with (Shift+Delete) or emptied from the Recycle Bin are the easiest data loss scenario to recover from.

When Windows deletes a file, it only removes the pointer to that file in the file system index. Your actual data remains on the drive, untouched, until something new overwrites that space.

In our lab test, SysTools’ Advanced hard disk drive recovery software recovered 496 out of 500 deleted files with full folder structure and original filenames intact.

Pro tip:

Even if the Recycle Bin has been emptied, SysTools can still recover your files. At the file system level, the action of emptying the Recycle Bin works exactly like Shift+Delete.

Why Choose SysTools HDD Recovery Software

Supported File Types for HDD Data Recovery

Doc

Document

DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, XLSB/XLSM, PPT/PPTX, XLTM/XLTX, PDF, CWK, HTML/HTM, MDB, INDD, EPS, ODT etc.

Video Recovery from Hard Drive

Video

AVI, MOV, AU, MP4, M4V, MXF, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, MKV, ASF, FLV, SWF, MPG, RM/RMVB, MPEG etc.

Audio File Recovery from Hard Drive

Audio

AIF/AIFF, M4A, RA, MP3, WAV, WMA, APE, MID/MIDI, OGG, AAC, RealAudio, VQF etc.

Recover Deleted Files from Internal and External Hard Drive

Email

PST, DBX, EMLX, etc.(from Outlook, Outlook Express etc.)

Photos Recovery

Images

PG/JPEG, TIFF/TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, ICO, PS, AI, CRW, EPS, CR2, NEF, ORF, RAF, SR2, MRW, DCR , WMF, DNG, ERF, RAW, SWF, SVG, PAT, FH9, FH11, and X3F etc.

Recover Deleted Files

Other Files

EPUB, HTML, ICS, CDR, VCF, RTF, 7Z, ARJ, PEF, CAB, EDB, RPM, etc.

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Feature Comparison Of Hard Drive Data Recovery Tool

Get an Overview of HDD Data Recovery Software Features - DEMO and Licensed Version

Features DEMO Version FULL Version
Recover Formatted Data from Hard Drive
Recover Corrupted Data from HDD
Recovery Permanently Deleted Data HDD
Recover data from NTFS Formatted HDD
Supports Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 (32 bit or 64 bit) & Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2, 2008
Preview Complete Recovered Data Items
Save Selected Items After Recovery Only Preview
Save Complete Items After Recovery Only Preview
Cost FREE $39

Trusted Recovery Expertise

Why Trust SysTools for Hard Drive Recovery?

Every data loss situation is different and before you decide to use any software, you must know exactly who built it, how it works, and why it will not make things worse.

Version Tested: v18.6

April 2026

The Software is Tested in April

Tested By

Tej Pratap Shukla

Senior Data Recovery Engineer, SysTools

15 Years of Experience

Next Review

October 2026

Upcoming Feature Assessment

Read-only, Non-destructive Scan so Your Data is Never Modified

SysTools HDD Recovery Tool completely scans your drive in read-only mode. During scanning or previewing, nothing is ever written to, modified on, or deleted from your drive at any point and your original data remains exactly as it was.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find Question & Answer Here - How to Recover Lost Data from Hard Drive?

Is it safe to use recovery software on a damaged HDD?

Yes it is safe to use recovery software but with certain conditions if the drive does not show physical symptoms such as clicking sounds or overheating it is good to go.

“I have an external hard drive of 600 GB which got corrupted somehow. How much time will the SysTools Hard Drive Recovery software take, to recover my data from corrupted hard drive?”

Recovery time taken by hard drive corrupted data recovery software entirely depends on the size of data involved. Other than that, level of corruption is also a factor determining the time taken for recovering data i.e. more time will be taken to scan and recover highly corrupted data as compared to minimally corrupted data.
Yes, using our hard disk recovery software your old hard drives can still be recovered only the condition is it must not have any physical damage.

“I have downloaded demo version of hard disk data recovery software. It showed my lost files but saving option is disabled. So my friend suggested me to download crack version. Is the crack key or serial key available for free.”

No, The serial key is not available for free. Also, do not use hard drive data recovery crack version. Because it may be a malicious program and can create lots of trouble for you.
SysTools offers a free demo that lets you scan your drive and preview all your recoverable files before purchasing the software. This allows you to confirm your files are recoverable at zero cost. The full version, required to save files, is priced only at $39.
Yes, in most cases. SysTools uses a sector by sector scanning approach that skips unreadable bad sectors and continues recovering the data from the healthy portions of the drive. Recovery success depends on how many sectors are damaged and whether your target files happen to sit on affected areas.
You can recover data from a corrupted hard drive without formatting by using SysTools hard disk files recovery tool. It is a reliable Software and it recovers data safely and securely. And after recovering your data you can format your hard drive. The best thing about this software is that it recovers corrupted, deleted, formatted and permanently deleted data as well.
Yes, You can recover data from dead laptop hard drive and all other types of drives by using SysTools hard disk data recovery software only when the hard drive is logically damaged. But, you can not recover your data if hard drive is physically damaged and in this situation you need to contact data recovery service center.
Use the best software named as SysTools hard disk file recovery software to recover photos from hard drive. You can recover JPG, RAW camera files and many more by using this professional software.
When Windows stops recognizing an external drive, it simply means a file system error, corrupted partition table, or driver issue - not physical damage. SysTools Hard Drive Recovery Wizard can scan your unrecognized drive directly using RAW recovery mode. You just need to connect the drive, launch the software, select the drive from the list even if it shows no partition, and run a Formatted Scan.
Yes, Files can be recovered from a formatted hard drive by using Hard Drive Data Recovery Software.
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